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This paper depicts how a conceptual framework for teacher clinical experience and induction was formulated in a five-year research programme funded by the Malaysian Ministry of Education. The framework is an outcome of research idea conceptualization, which is meant for the development of a teacher clinical experience and induction model. It depicts specific analytical propositions that shape the key concepts associated to teacher education, which in turn illustrates how these concepts relate to each other and forms the conceptual framework. This paper also demonstrates how relevant middle range theories support the personal, professional and contextual dimensions of clinical experience in teacher education. The theorysupported framework was enriched by five evidence-based guiding principles, leading to the creation of a provisional model that can direct the administration and supervision of trainee teachers when they undertake clinical experience and induction in actual schools..

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The Kelabit are among the indigenous tribe dwelling in about sixteen small villages deep in the Borneo tropical rainforest near to the Indonesian border. The nearest town is Miri, which is only accessible via logging dirt road or a nineteen-sitter airplane served by Mas Wings rural air service. The tribe who mostly settled in longhouses used to be known with their headhunting tradition possess a very unique musical culture. Aree lakhua is a match-making song sung by young unmarried women in Pakapel tradition to attract single man to marry her. With the intrusion of western musical culture as well as the influence of Christianity in the society, this tradition is now no longer widely practiced and soon will be extinct. This work aims to reveal and analyse the musical aspect of the pakapel tradition among the Kelabit society. Using a combination of musicological and ethnographic approaches, the author presents the functional facts as well as analysing the musical aspects of the song. Thi.....

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DPMP ditubuhkan pada 17 Mei 1957 di Sekolah Laki-laki Temerloh. Kira-kira seratus orang penulis, peminat, guru-guru, ustaz merupakan tenaga awal penubuhannya dan mereka inilah yang hadir pada hari yang bersejarah itu. Antara objektif penubuhannya ialah menyatukan penulis-penulis, peminat sastera dan penggiat budaya ke dalam suatu organisasi yang berperlembagaan. Sebelum itu Pahang telah mempunyai penulis yang menulis bersendirian seperti Dato' Shihabudin Zainal Abidin (ulama) yang banyak menghasilkan karya agama dalam genre syair. Dalam kurun kelima belas hingga ketujuh belas tradisi menulis terus menerus disambung pula oleh Cikgu Ahmad Kotot, Hikayat Percintaan Kasih Kemudaan diterbitkan tahun 1928. Cikgu Ahmad adalah bekas penuntut Maktab Perguruan Melaka sebelum berpindah ke Tanjung Malim. Selepas itu timbul pula penulis IBHY iaitu Ibrahim Haji Yaacob yang banyak menulis rencana-rencana tentang nasib dan perjuangan orang-orang Melayu. Beliau merupakan pelajar Sultan Idris Training C.....

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