Generally, parents who go to work would prefer their children to be with their grandparents due to blood relationship, trust, and experience. Such parenting service could become more essential when they could not find responsible housemaids or child minders. However, grandparents_ personal characteristics and family demographic influence grandchildren nutrition attitudes, emotional well-being, lifestyles, learning activities, and social skills. Furthermore, grandparents do shape the grandchildren_s behavior and educational performance in school. Based on the literature reviewed, academic research about grand-parenting influence on grandchildren development in Malaysia seems to be very limited; hence, this study aimed to give an insight into grandparents_ contribution to the grandchildren_s development in the country by applying the qualitative method approach to analyze data collected from twenty participants from two Malaysia states, namely, Ipoh and Wilayah Persekutuan. The analysis .....

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Teacher education programmes the world over are based on national ideologies, policies and development plans. They are grounded in the culture of knowledge espoused by the major stakeholders (Bruner, 1996). The culture in turn is based on the value system espoused by the stakeholders concerned and this value system is incorporated and reflected in the teacher education programmes, particularly its curriculum and the management and development of the curriculum. A value system is in essence the ordering and prioritization of the ethical and ideological values that individuals or society hold. However, value systems are not something static. On the contrary they are dynamic and ever changing. In view of the emerging trends and challenges of globalization (Friedman, 2004), it has become necessary to view teacher education within the wider context of both the professional community and society at large. The state and nature of the rapid change requires teacher education to be more outward .....

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This paper will present part of a larger study on the development and implementation of a Thinking-based Learning (TBL) instructional manual for secondary science. Two of the research objectives discussed in this paper is to determine teachers_ perceptions in conducting the TBL approach in the regular classroom and the students_ motivation after undergoing a series of TBL activities. Four teachers from 4 different schools volunteered to conduct TBL science lessons to an intact group of 187 students. Another group of 40 MRSM science teachers were given a 2 days TBL workshop. A five point Likert scale questionnaire on teachers_ perception and an intrinsic motivation inventory was used to collect data. The findings showed that despite 79% of teachers who are in favor of the TBL approach, many constrains faced by them might impede the implementation and success of the approach. 85.6% of the students were highly motivated intrinsically after undergoing the TBL lessons. It can be concluded t.....

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An exploratory study was conducted to investigate the social science literacy among form four students in Malaysian secondary schools. The aim of the study was to explore social science literacy in selected social science subjects, namely History, Geography, Moral Education, and Islamic Education as well as the students_s general knowledge in the area of social science in Malaysian secondary schools. The study also intended to propose guidelines on standards in social science literacy for secondary schools in Malaysia. The study used quantitative research method. Five sets of questionnaires in the form of objective multiple-choice tests were developed to identify social science literacy in the three domains of knowledge, skills and values in the four selected subjects and general knowledge. The respondents were 16 years old students studying in form four at national secondary schools throughout Malaysia. From the total of 4705 respondents, the number of respondents for Geography was 10.....

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In Malaysia, there is widespread recognition that technology can play a significant role in supplementing and complimenting the process of teacher_s teaching and learning. Given current recognition of the advancement of educational technology, as well as the high costs of investing in schools or higher institutions, this study attempted understand teachers_ acceptance of blended e-learning in teaching and learning. It examines the effects of the endogenous variables towards with blended e-learning acceptance, which involved 98 teachers. Computer attitudes (CA), computer teaching efficacy (CTE), school environment (SE) and Moodle use (CU) were analysed to understand its influences in Moodle use. Structural Equation Modelling (SEM) was employed for the data analysis. All hypotheses were supported by the data and have direct effects towards blended e-learning acceptance. Keywords Educational technology, technology integration, Moodle, structural equation modelling..

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Globalization is constantly impacting on education and is radically transforming it in terms of the mode and culture of learning. The shift from product-economy to knowledge-economy has profound implications for the kind of education a nation has to offer its future generation. The need for knowledge workers places emphasis on new attributes for learners, particularly those which pertain to twenty-first century skills. The last decade and a half has also seen the emergence of international student ranking lists such as TIMSS, PISA, PIRLS, Olympiads, which have put tremendous pressure on education ministries. A response to this pressure of _rank and shame_ has been a flurry of education reform initiatives, including in Malaysia. The ability to develop learners who can think critically and creatively and to reason logically and to innovate is the challenge in education. The Malaysia Education Blueprint 2013-2025 has identified teacher education among the eleven shifts to transform the Ma.....

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Penggunaan kaedah analisis praxeology amat penting dalam memahami penyampaian kandungan terdapat dalam buku teks. Walau bagaimanapun, masih kurang kajian mengenai analisis kandungan topik Graf Fungsi Tingkatan Dua menggunakan kaedah praxeology. Kajian ini bertujuan menganalisis kandungan yang terdapat dalam buku teks Matematik Tingkatan Dua bagi topik Graf Fungsi menggunakan kaedah praxeology dan reka bentuk fenomenologi untuk meneroka halangan pembelajaran yang dihadapi oleh murid dalam mempelajari topik Graf Fungsi. Reka bentuk penyelidikan kualitatif digunakan dengan memilih teknik pensampelan bertujuan dalam melaksanakan temu bual separa berstruktur terhadap enam daripada 22 orang murid Tingkatan Dua yang telah menjalani ujian bertulis. Seterusnya, pengumpulan data analisis kandungan buku teks dilakukan dengan mengkategorikan set blok praxis (praktikal) yang terdiri daripada jenis tugasan (T) dan teknik (_) serta set blok logos (pengetahuan) yang terdiri daripada teknologi (_) dan .....

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This study aimed to analyze the progress of cognition process through physical and aesthetic development elements in teaching and learning for preschool teacher. The data was obtained through a practical experience in a private kindergarten located at Cheras, Kuala Lumpur. The daily lesson plans and student work sheets for two months duration were studied to obtain and transcribe data into texts. With the help of Hermeneutics method, the data were analyzed and showed that pre-school teachers were capable of planning the daily lesson and effective teaching methods according to the level of a child_s development. This research also showed how the pre-school teachers applied the cognition process in teaching and learning activities. Studies showed that the pre-school teachers lacked in creativity in planning the daily lesson, particularly involving the physical and aesthetic development. The teaching approach and methods that were less effective would cause the slow development in cogniti.....

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This research aimed to produce bacterial cellulose through fermentation of kombucha symbiotic cellulose of bacteria and yeast (SCOBY) by using fruit peel wastes as fermentation substrates. This research is divided into three main studies, namely proximate analysis of fruit peel wastes, correlation studies of fermentation process and characterisation studies of kombucha SCOBY cellulose (KSC). The fruit peel wastes used in this study were dragon fruit, jackfruit banana, saba banana and pumpkin. Several proximate analyses were conducted to determine the composition of carbohydrate, protein, fibre and ash in fruit peel wastes. The characterisation studies of KSC were carried out using Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectrometer, X-ray diffraction (XRD) spectrometer, thermogravimetric analyser (TGA), differential scanning calorimeter (DSC), field emission scanning electron microscope (FESEM) and energy dispersive X-ray (EDX) spectrometer. Based on proximate analyses, dragon fruit peel wa.....

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Postpartum depression (PPD) represents a significant mental health concern that affects the relationship between mothers and their infants worldwide, including in Indonesia. Specifically, in Banjarmasin Indonesia, it has been reported that about 43% of postpartum mothers are diagnosed with the symptoms which become a consideration scenario for scientific study. It has been noted that health institutions in Banjarmasin, Indonesia, are deficient in an effective detection tool, primarily due to the expensive, time-intensive, and insufficient nature of existing methods. The conventional screening approach, which relies on questionnaire instruments, fails to yield a meaningful dataset of PPD that can be analyzed scientifically and accurately. A purposive sampling method was applied, yielding a sample of 317 respondents from healthcare institutions in Banjarmasin City. A hybrid resampling technique combining Bootstrapping and the Synthetic Minority Oversampling Technique (SMOTE) was implemen.....

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