Author : Koh Chung Hui 1
Date of Publication :30th January 2021
Abstract: The Malaysian educational system is experiencing, according to its Vision 2020, a major pedagogical change from a conventional teacher-centered approach to teaching and learning. The Malaysian government wants these educational reforms to happen in Malaysian high schools and its higher education system in teaching and learning growth. However, Malaysian study reveals that the approach to schooling and learning used in Malaysian schools and in tertiary institutions is constantly unclear. The adoption of Western ideas including student-centered models of learning seems to have led to friction among Malaysian teachers and students. Besides that, previous Malaysian research found that multiple cultures have diverse standards and beliefs, which have a strong effect on education. Therefore it is important, rather than believing that Western theories in each sense are productive and desirable, to recognise and establish suitable pedagogies for particular education traditions. The goal of this analysis is therefore to examine the comprehension of teaching of Malaysian teacher educators. This paper was carried out in a teacher education programme for a Malaysian university. The key results of the research were that the participants in Malaysian teacher educators and student students had mixed conventional learning methods, based on teachers and students, due to the advantages that both approaches could bring to them.
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