Puppetry plays an edutainment role in playing and learning activities for nursery and kindergarten children. This qualitative study was aimed to investigate the benefits of puppetry activities for children who were enrolled in early childhood programs. In-depth interviews were conducted with four respondents, two of whom were child care providers from the nursery and two teachers were from kindergarten. Based on the thematic analysis, it was found that the inclusion of puppetry activities in an early childhood program can boost intellect and memory; enhance creative thinking and imagination; more manageable of self-control and emotions; ensure social and interaction; allow practice in focusing; language and communication; improve physical and mental health; connected spirituality and moral values. Most importantly, the daily living skills embedded in the puppetry activities can be translated into their lives. In sum, this study proved that puppetry activities help to enhance life skill.....

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Early Childhood Care and Education (ECCE) centre registration is an important aspect in promoting quality ECCE. Quality ECCE plays an important role in promoting holistic development for children. In the Malaysian context, ECCE is managed under a dichotomous system which is overseen by the Ministry of Women, Family and Community Development and the Ministry of Education. The ECCE registration process involves various departments, and hence, the operators need to deal with different authorities in adherence with the rules and regulations set by each authority. The objectives of this study are to explore the perceptions of the ECCE operators on the centre registration process and to investigate the challenges faced by them in the registration process. This study adopted a mixed-method research which involves 127 respondents in the survey and 53 participants in focus group interviews. The quantitative and qualitative data were analysed using SPSS and NVivo respectively. From the findings,.....

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Kajian ini bertujuan untuk menentukan hubungan kepimpinan distributif guru besar dengan tingkah laku kewarganegaraan organisasi (TKO) guru sekolah rendah di daerah Gombak, Selangor. Kepimpinan distributif guru besar dikaji berdasarkan persepsi guru. Teori Gordon telah gunakan sebagai asas untuk menerangkan mengenai kepimpinan distributif yang berfokus kepada empat dimensi iaitu penetapan dan perkongsian misi, visi dan matlamat sekolah, budaya sekolah, amalan kepimpinan dan perkongsian tanggungjawab. Teori Organ pula digunakan untuk menerangkan mengenai tingkah laku kewarganegaraan organisasi guru yang berfokus kepada lima dimensi iaitu prinsip utamakan kesejahteraan orang lain, sifat teliti dan cermat, semangat kerja, kesopanan dan nilai murni sivik. Kajian ini menggunakan reka bentuk korelasi. Seramai 320 guru telah dipilih secara rawak sistematik daripada 12 buah sekolah rendah yang mempunyai bilangan guru lebih 100 orang. Instrumen kajian terdiri daripada satu set soal se.....

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Tujuan utama kajian ini ialah untuk menguji pengaruh kepimpinan inovasi pengetua terhadap budaya inovasi dan inovasi organisasi Sekolah Menengah Kebangsaan kawasan bandar di Sabah. Reka bentuk kajian ini menggunakan pendekatan kuantitatif dengan kaedah tinjauan. Seramai 478 orang guru dari 33 buah sekolah menengah kategori bandar di Negeri Sabah terlibat dalam kajian ini. Perisian Permodelan Persamaan Berstruktur (SEM) digunakan untuk menganalisis data kajian. Dapatan kajian menunjukkan Kepimpinan Inovasi Pengetua dapat diukur melalui lima dimensi iaitu Tingkah Laku Kreatif, Komunikasi Berkesan, Kemahiran Teknikal, Tingkah Laku Pembuka dan Tingkah Laku Penutup. Sebanyak 18 item baharu dibangunkan untuk mengukur Model Kepimpinan Inovasi Pengetua. Model yang dibangunkan juga memenuhi nilai Indeks Kesepadanan yang diperlukan dengan nilai RMSEA=0.079, CFI=0.967, TLI=0.960 dan Chisq/df=4.019. Sementara itu, Budaya Inovasi di sekolah diukur melalui empat dimensi iaitu Strategi, S.....

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Objektif kajian ini adalah untuk membangunkan dan menilai Modul Interaktif Realiti Maya (E-MARZ) Komponen Apresiasi Muzik Menengah Rendah. Kajian ini menggunakan reka bentuk dan pembangunan DDR (design and development research) yang diperkenalkan oleh Richey dan Klein (2007) yang melibatkan tiga fasa. Data fasa pertama iaitu analisa keperluan dikutip melalui edaran soal selidik terhadap 186 orang responden iaitu pelajar aliran muzik sekolah menengah dari empat buah sekolah berbeza. Data dianalisis secara deskriptif menggunakan perisian Statistical Packages for the Social Science (SPSS). Dapatan bagi fasa kedua iaitu fasa reka bentuk elemen modul menggunakan kaedah Fuzzy Delphi yang melibatkan 15 orang pakar bidang. Fasa pembangunan modul bersandarkan kepada proses produksi video dan model pembangunan m-ADDIE. Dapatan fasa ketiga iaitu fasa penilaian mengukur kebolehgunaan modul menggunakan kaedah temu bual serta soal selidik kebolehgunaan ke atas lima pakar bidang dan 82 pe.....

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Kajian ini bertujuan untuk menilai instrumen inventori nilai murni berdasarkan persepsi guru Bahasa Melayu. Teori perkembangan moral dan etika oleh Kohlberg telah digunakan dalam kajian ini yang mengfokuskan kepada elemen moral dan etika yang mendasari nilai murni. Kaedah kajian menggunakan reka bentuk kajian kes. Populasi guru Bahasa Melayu di sekolah menengah di daerah Sabak Bernam adalah seramai 195 orang dan sampel kajian seramai 50 orang guru Bahasa Melayu telah dipilih daripada 17 buah sekolah menengah di daerah Sabak Bernam secara rawak kluster. Instrumen kajian terdiri daripada satu set inventori yang mengandungi 17 dimensi nilai murni yang telah diadaptasi daripada Mohd Khairi bin Hj Othman. Kesahan konstruk inventori tersebut telah disahkan oleh empat orang pakar bidang dan nilai kebolehpercayaan instrumen berdasarkan pekali Alfa Cronbach adalah α = 0.96. Inventori nilai murni ini menunjukkan nilai kebolehpercayaan yang tinggi. Data kajian telah dianalisis menggu.....

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This study aims to know the effectiveness of the board game and song in improving speaking skills in kindergarten children. In this study, the term ‘speaking skills’ refers to the five different types of communicative competence in speaking, which are fluency, grammar, vocabulary, pronunciation, and comprehension. A total of 40 kindergarten children aged 5-6 years in a school in Sumbawa, West Nusa Tenggara Indonesia, with details of 20 children in group A and 20 children in group B were involved in this study. This research is an experimental study with a static group pretest-posttest design. The research data were obtained through the t-test to obtain the min scores of the subjects in the two research groups. The results showed that the final score obtained by group A was 59.60, while the final score for group B was 60.20. In conclusion, there was a statistically significant difference between the two groups of 0.60 as a whole based on the final score. This demonstrates.....

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With the increased number of women participation in the labour force and the encouragement from the Malaysia government to the private sector in setting up preschool and early childcare centre, there is a high demand on the number of institution-based private childcare centre. However, the literature has shown that the number of childcare centres closing is on the rise and at a worrying state. Hence, the purpose of this study is to explore the possible factors affecting the closing down of childcare centre and to learn the best practices from the sustaining childcare centres. This study utilized multiple case studies methods in researching the success factors of those sustainable childcare centre as well as identifying the factors that lead to the closing down of some childcare centres. Two institution-based private childcare centres who have operated for more than ten years and two centres that have recently closed after operating between two to four years in the Klang Valley area wer.....

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This article aimed to discuss the implementation of sexuality education in the preschool context in Malaysia based on preschool teachers’ understanding. Past studies have reassured that teachers have played an important role in ensuring the success of early childhood sexuality education program. Numerous local and Asian studies have highlighted that due to the lack of training and limited assess on sexuality related resources, the implementation of this program in preschool level remained vague. To close the gap, interviews were conducted to discover Malaysia preschool teachers’ content knowledge and delivery on sexuality education in the early years. Ten qualified and experienced preschool teachers from Klang Valley were recruited as the study respondents. Content analysis was employed to extract emerging themes based on the interview scripts. Findings have revealed that the respondents showed a varied understanding about sexuality education in early childhood context, where their.....

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Kajian ini bertujuan membangunkan model pengurusan pentaksiran kanak-kanak di tadika dan prasekolah. Objektif kajian ini adalah untuk mengenal pasti elemen pengurusan pentaksiran dan meningkatkan kualiti pentaksiran bagi mengesan perkembangan kanak-kanak pada peringkat tadika dan prasekolah. Data kajian ini dianalisis menggunakan pendekatan Interpretive Structural Modelling (ISM). Seramai 12 orang pakar pendidikan awal kanak-kanak dalam bidang pentaksiran dan penilaian dilibatkan untuk mengenal pasti dan mengesahkan elemen pengurusan pentaksiran kanak-kanak prasekolah yang bersesuaian. Pendekatan ISM diaplikasikan untuk membangun model dan memetakan hubungan antara elemen yang dikenal pasti dalam model pengurusan pentaksiran kanak-kanak prasekolah. Kajian ini juga dapat merungkai satu sistem yang kompleks kepada beberapa sub-sistem berdasarkan pengalaman dan pengetahuan pakar yang dipilih. Dapatan kajian telah mencapai konsensus dalam memilih; (i) bentuk pentaksiran sebagai aktiviti ya.....

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