Education – Page 2

Student mental health: Solely a school counsellor’s job or every teacher’s concern?

Education November 2, 2019

Most of the time, we tend to resort to the school counsellor whenever we notice a problem in students’ behavior. However, I would like to contend that teachers (class teachers or subject teachers) should also possess a skill that could…Read more

A research-oriented mindset is what sets Finnish teachers from Malaysian teachers apart

Education July 20, 2019

There are articles on the internet which have compared the differences of Finnish and Malaysian education system (Reo, 2015; “7 facts that makes Finland’s”, 2014). These articles have mentioned the differences of the type of teacher qualifications that an in-service…Read more

Religious freedom in schools: Allowing the establishment of non-Muslim religious associations

Education July 12, 2019

A teacher told me about how an association for Christian students in her school was banned by the school administration. The ban was due to the impression that there are already too many registered societies in the school itself. The…Read more

#Undi18: Challenges in implementing civic and voting awareness among Malaysian teens and youths

Education, Politics July 3, 2019

As of 2nd of July 2019, Syed Saddiq, the Malaysian youth and sports minister said that there has been a bipartisan support to lower down the voting age to 18. There are a lot of arguments surrounding this issue online.…Read more

Doing away with caning

Education June 30, 2019

A video went viral showing a mother of a female student scolding a teacher who canned her daughter for calling the teacher ‘pondan’, which is a degrading term used to describe men who are effeminate. After that video got circulated,…Read more

The practice of mindfulness among teachers

Education January 27, 2019

For the past few years, reports of teachers committing suicide have surfaced in news media outlets. In 2016, a teacher in Klang was pressured by the headmistress with tonnes of workload and was on the brink of suicide. In 2017,…Read more

The application of political ideologies in Malaysian education

Education, Politics January 20, 2019

Political ideologies are all around us. If we observe carefully,even in a field that we would not usually associate with politics would have applications of political ideologies being injected into its policies. This is because, without politics a country wouldn’t…Read more

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The objective of this blog is to provide readers different perspectives of particular issues in education and socio-politics within Malaysian context. It is also to encourage intellectual discussions and spread awareness.