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Leadership, career growth and socialization paths of Malaysian public school managers

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The main purpose of this study was to understand the nature of learning for school managers in government schools as they learn and make decisions at different stages of the socialization stages from accession to retirement. A phenomenological approach was utilized and participants were selected from excellent and successful school managers through elite sampling. The data collection methods employed to achieve the purpose of the study were mainly in-depth interviews with the participants. The thematic findings which emerged from this data included four socialization stages namely: (1) Entry into Headship; (2) Identity Formation; (3) Making a Difference; and (4) Reformulation of Personal Values. The study concluded that the findings of this study provided a helpful guide for understanding school managers’ learning in the socialization process towards achieving better leadership and decision making. Implications for relevant training and appropriate support for leadership preparation .....

Article Published 2014 1795 hits Available

Refleksi tenaga pengajar terhadap kepemimpinan distributif dan tekanan kerja dalam pendidikan teknik dan vokasional

Rabindarang Siva, Khuan Wai Bing, Khoo Yin Yin,

Abstract

Kepemimpinan mempengaruhi tekanan kerja dalam kalangan tenaga pengajar. Tekanan kerja menyebabkan prestasi dan kualiti kerja menurun. Oleh itu, gaya kepemimpinan yang lebih fleksibel dan bercorak perkongsian perlu diamalkan dalam sistem pendidikan. Tujuan kajian ini adalah untuk menentukan perkaitan di antara kepemimpinan yang bercorak perkongsian iaitu kepemimpinan distributif dan tekanan kerja dalam pendidikan teknik dan vokasional. Kajian ini adalah berbentuk kualitatif iaitu temu bual separa berstruktur. Responden kajian dipilih dengan teknik persampelan bertujuan iaitu mempunyai minima setahun pengalaman mengajar dalam pendidikan teknik dan vokasional. Seramai empat responden iaitu tenaga pengajar daripada pendidikan teknik dan vokasional telah dipilih untuk sesi temu bual. Data kajian dianalisis dengan kaedah analisis kandungan. Data temu bual dikumpul dan dianalisis dengan mentranskripsi temu bual secara verbatim, dikod dan dikategorikan mengikut tema. Dapatan kajian menunjukkan.....

Article Published 2014 1844 hits Available

Principal change leadership competencies and teacher attitudes toward change : the mediating effects of teacher change beliefs

Kin Tai Mei, Kareem Omar Abdull, Nordin Mohamad Sahari, Bing Khuan Wai,

Article Published 2017 2950 hits Limited

Emotional intelligence and job performance: a study among Malaysian administrators

Mahdinezhad Maryam, Shahhosseini Mohammad, Kotamjani Sedigheh Shakib, Kuan Wai Bing, Hashim Emilda,

Article Published 2017 2557 hits Limited

Investigating the relationship between teacher quality and students

Khuan, Wai Bing

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Empowerment is the delegation of power to teachers for sustainability of education system. When teachers are empowered, students’ academic performance will improve. The study investigated the relationship between teacher quality and students’ academic performance with empowerment as a mediator. About 379 teachers were selected randomly from public secondary schools, Kwara state, Nigeria. Structural equation model was utilized to test the hypothesized model. Based on the result of the study, teacher quality was positively related to students’ academic performance which meant that quality of teachers determine the success of students. Insignificant relationship was found between teacher quality and principal empowerment practices which showed that the relationship did not exist. Also, the relationship between principal empowerment practices and students’ academic performance was tested of which the results revealed as insignificant. Lastly, the mediating role of principal empower.....

Article Published 2019 2144 hits Available

Exploring the sustainability of institution-based private childcare centres in Klang Valley

Chan, Yi Bing

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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.....

Article Published 2021 717 hits Available

Exploring the sustainability of institution-based private childcare centre in Klang Valley

Chan, Yi Bing

Abstract

With the increased number of women participating in the labour force and the encouragement from the Malaysian government to the private sector in setting up preschool and early childcare centres, there is a high demand for the number of institution-based private childcare centres. However, the literature has shown that the number of childcare centres closing is on the rise and in a worrying state. Hence, the purpose of this study is to explore the possible factors affecting the closing of the institution-based private childcare centres in Klang Valley 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 centres as well as identifying the factors that lead to the closing of some childcare centres. Two institution-based private childcare centres that have operated for more than ten years and two centres that have recently closed after operating .....

Thesis Published 2022 1530 hits Available

Learning through traumatic life events in leadership development

Khuan, Wai Bing

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In Malaysia_s life long learning effort and policy to help working adults, a leadership development program was designed to help beginning and incumbent headteachers upgrade their knowledge and skills. While accomplishing this program in Sultan Idris Education University, many of the adult learners encountered critical incidents of life and death that could make or break their spirit and learning ability. The main purpose of this study was aimed at exploring the critical incidents of life and death that shape headteachers_ learning abilities in completing the first degree of management education. A critical incidents research paradigm was used. The data used in this exploration was collected mainly through self-reflective assignment and in-depth interviews from headteachers who had rose above life situations such as difficult child birth, battling cancer, Parkinson disease, accidents, kidnapping and other critical incidents while being adult learners. The research result yielded severa.....

Article Published 2012 69 hits Available

Translating malay compounds into arabic based on dynamic theory and arabization method

Ummi Nadjwa Wahiyudin

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This study aims at making possible the effective use of machine translation (MT) in interpreting the Malay compounds into Arabic ones following the structure and Arabic style. The necessity of this study arises on account of the weakness of translation quality using online MT and the lack of suitable methods to structure the compounds from the Malay language into Arabic. There are three objectives of this study which are to collect the results of Malay compound translations using online MT into Arabic, analyze the results of the compound translations, and suggest compound translation methods based on dynamic theory and Arabization method. The study uses three online MT as instruments to translate: Google Translate, Microsoft Bing Translator, and Yandex Translator. This qualitative study employs a descriptive approach and analysis method in collecting information and analyzing data. The study focuses on 15 Malay compounds which are later categorized into school names, hospital names, an.....

Article Published 2021 1484 hits Available

Terjemahan kata nama khas Melayu-Arab berdasarkan teori dinamik dan kaedah Ta\Reeb

Ummi Nadjwa Wahiyudin

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Kajian ini merupakan sebuah kajian yang menjurus kepada keberkesanan penggunaan mesin terjemahan (MT) dalam menterjemah kata nama khas (KNK) ke dalam bahasa Arab sesuai dengan struktur dan gaya bahasa Arab. Kajian ini timbul berikutan terdapat beberapa penambahbaikan yang diperlukan dan faktor kekurangan kaedah yang sesuai untuk menstruktur KNK daripada bahasa Melayu ke dalam bahasa Arab. Kajian ini menyasarkan tiga objektif iaitu mengumpul hasil terjemahan KNK menggunakan MT atas talian ke dalam bahasa Arab, menganalisis hasil terjemahan KNK dan mencadangkan kaedah terjemahan KNK berdasarkan Teori Dinamik dan kaedah Ta‘reeb, menggunakan tiga jenis MT atas talian sebagai instrumen untuk menterjemah iaitu MT Google, Bing Microsoft dan Yandex. Kajian yang berbentuk kajian gabungan, iaitu kuantitatif dan kualitatif ini menggunakan pendekatan deskriptif dan kaedah analisis dalam mengumpul maklumat dan menganalisis 30 data KNK yang dikecilkan kepada 15 KNK sahaja. Seterusnya, .....

Thesis Published 2023 1012 hits Available

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