Parents' involvement is one factor that contributes to implementing career transition for students with learning disabilities (SLD) in the Special Education Integration Program (SEIP). The involvement in educating children at school could also nurture their psychological growth, sharing learning experiences, supporting and respecting the teachers' effort. This research explored parents' involvement and the obstacles they face in implementing career transition for students with learning disabilities (SLD) in Special Education Integration Program (SEIP) from a teacher's perspective in Malaysia. This research uses a qualitative and case study design. Data collection is through interviews with vocational subject teachers at SEIP. Four teachers at three secondary schools in Johore and Malacca were chosen based on a purposeful sampling technique. The data were analyzed using the ATLAS.ti 8 software. Findings show that parents' involvement at suburban schools is better than in urban schools. .....

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In the digital era, some real-world crimes have now transcended into cyberspace. Cybercrime such as cyberstalking is one of them and is considered as an emerging threat in Malaysia. Its prevalence in the reported statistics is merely a tip of an iceberg as many cases may not be reported. Cyberstalking may lead to a chain of psychological trauma and more severe crimes such as identity theft, rape, and even murder. However, despite its serious ramifications, the absence of any specific law to curb such criminality is regrettable and glaring in the Malaysian legal landscape. Hence, this paper aims at examining the technological and social factors contributing to such illegality, the rationales for the non-criminalisation and its implication for the victim's sense of justice. This paper adopts a qualitative methodology, of which the primary data is generated from semi-structured interviews with relevant respondents. The data triangulation is obtained from experts at two relevant ministries.....

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Tujuan kajian ini adalah untuk membangunkan aplikasi pembelajaran berasaskan permainan (PBPDT) bagi topik Kebarangkalian Mudah dan kesannya terhadap pencapaian murid tingkatan dua. Penyelidikan ini menggunakan pendekatan penyelidikan reka bentuk dan pembangunan (PRP). Kajian ini dijalankan dalam tiga fasa. Fasa pertama adalah fasa analisis keperluan. Fasa ini menggunakan soal selidik yang diedarkan kepada 500 orang murid tingkatan dua untuk memantau keperluan pembangunan aplikasi PBPDT. Data soal selidik yang diperoleh dianalisis menggunakan perisian IBM SPSS Statistics versi 23 menunjukkan bahawa terdapat keperluan kepada pembangunan aplikasi PBPDT dimana minat murid terhadap permainan dalam talian adalah sederhana dengan nilai min 3.382. Fasa kedua ialah fasa rekabentuk dan pembangunan aplikasi melibatkan kesepakatan 11 orang pakar terhadap komponen konstruk dan item menggunakan teknik Fuzzy Delphi Method. Dapatan menunjukkan, pakar telah menerima 7 kontsruk utama dengan .....

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Kajian ini bertujuan menjelaskan potensi busking sebagai aktiviti pengayaan bagi mengembangkan kemahiran persembahan muzik berdasarkan lapan komponen pendekatan kontekstual. Terdapat dua objektif kajian iaitu mengenal pasti kemahiran persembahan muzik yang dapat diperkembangkan melalui aktiviti busking dari aspek muzikal dan bukan muzikal seterusnya menjelaskan potensi busking sebagai aktiviti pengayaan bagi mengembangkan kemahiran persembahan muzik berdasarkan lapan komponen pendekatan kontekstual. Pendekatan kualitatif digunakan untuk tujuan kajian ini dengan melibatkan empat kaedah pengumpulan data iaitu temu bual pra dan pasca-busking, temu bual kumpulan fokus, pemerhatian dan nota lapangan. Kajian ini melibatkan 4 orang pelajar diploma Kursus Aplikasi Muzik yang bertindak sebagai subjek serta informan dan 4 orang informan yang merupakan tenaga pengajar Kursus Aplikasi Muzik. Analisis terhadap data yang diperoleh menunjukkan bahawa aktiviti busking dapat memperkembang pe.....

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This study aimed to develop and determine the usability of Geometrical Optics Learning Module (GOLeM) towards Physics Matriculation students. The GOLeM was developed using ADDIE (Analyze, Design, Develop, Implement, Evaluate) model and this module had been validated by seven experts. This research used a questionnaire to evaluate the usability of the developed module. The research sample consisted of 186 students that was selected through cluster random sampling from an accessible population of 359 Physics Module II students in Perak Matriculation College. The research instrument was usability questionnaire that was used to measure the students’ perceptions towards the usability of the module. The questionnaire was adapted based on the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM). The data were analysed using descriptive and inferential statistics including frequency, mean, standard deviation and independent t-test. The average mean score for five constructs (M=4.46; S.D.=0.39) depi.....

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In this article, we seek to examine ways in which educators can bring music of world cultures into classrooms of children in a respectful, sensitive manner. Myriad issues of diversity, equity, and inclusion are at the center of the conversation among music educators across the globe. As educators are committed to issues of globaliation, social justice, and cultural democracy, we intend here to discuss World Music Pedagogy (WMP) as a means of fostering children’s musical and cultural awareness in embracing both local and global communities. These involve careful considerations, as WMP is a multi-dimensional learning process that recognises the importance of deep and reflective listening as gateway to knowing the music in order to participate in it, to perform it, to create new works within the style of the studied music, and to know its cultural meaning, context, and function. Lastly, we present three “classroom portraits” through activities with examples from Brazilian, Ugandan, .....

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This article provides three case studies of the use of world music resources to build alien worlds in mainstream screen media with Sci-Fi or Fantasy settings. The case studies—the TV series Battlestar Galactica: Blood and Chrome, the film Avatar and the Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game (MMORPG) video game World of Warcraft— show how composers and associated music professionals in the early twenty-first century increasingly draw on such sonic materials to generate a rich sense of sonic otherness and note the means they employ to sidestep such music’s existing geographical and cultural references. Each case study explores a contrasting subject position—composer, music consultant and consumer—to better trace not only the creation of such soundtracks but also what senses disparate groups of ordinary listeners subsequently make of them. The examples suggest that outside the sphere of big-budget cinema there is a growing confidence in both the creation and reception o.....

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The leadership of the Javanese gamelan is handled by a panjak juru kendhang (kendhang player). Although this player is the leader of this ensemble, his function is distinct from that of a conductor in a Western symphony orchestra.Psychological studies on leadership in music have examined the function of conductors in Western symphony orchestras. However, leadership in gamelan ensembles have yet to be explored. This study aims to examine leadership in Javanese gamelan ensembles. This study involved nine informants consisting of three main informants who are panjak juru kendhang, three informants who are pengrawit (gamelan players), and three expert informants who were academicians and gamelan experts. Qualitative methodology, i.e., the phenomenological method, was applied and interpreted through Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA). Our findings on gamelan leadership is elaborated within four cycles ofaesthetic leadership called ngemong raos (soul nurturing) which include sens.....

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Kajian ini ialah bertujuan untuk menganalisis kesan interaksi tahap realistik karakter animasi talking-head dua dimensi (2D) dengan ekspresi wajah positif terhadap emosi pelajar. Tiga tahap realistik yang digunakan ialah ikonik, semi-ikonik dan realistik. Manakala, dua ekspresi wajah positif yang digunakan ialah ekspresi senyum dan ekspresi neutral bagi setiap tahap realistik. Secara terperinci, enam prototaip animasi talking-head bagi paparan di skrin besar telah dibangunkan dan diuji. Reka bentuk eksperimen kuasi digunakan bagi menjawab persoalan-persoalan kajian yang dibina. Sampel kajian terdiri daripada 180 orang pelajar dari enam kelas di tiga buah politeknik. Setiap pengkuliahan dengan animasi 2D talking-head telah ditonton dan dinilai oleh 30 orang pelajar dalam setiap kelas. Data yang diperoleh telah dianalisis secara statistik dengan menggunakan two way repeated measures ANOVA serta prosedur analisis regresi berdasarkan model Baron dan Kenny. Dapatan analisis menun.....

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Managing self-regulated strategies while learning a piece of music is a complex task for undergraduate music students—at various levels of experience playing instruments—studying applied music courses. This study investigates music notation software as a visual-aural model to students’ effective practice. Twenty students of stringed instruments at levels I, II, III, and IV of an applied music course offered by the music faculty of a Malaysian university participated in this quantitative study, which was implemented using a self-report questionnaire. The results reveal that regardless of the student’s level in the applied music course, music notation software has a positive effect on students’ self-regulation practice strategies aimed at improving their shortcomings (including matching intonations and using proper phrasings, rhythmic patterns, and tempo speeds). This study assessed one semester of study at the university. Future research examining the potential benefits of usi.....

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