The acquisition of basic job skills in fieldwork approaches to history, ICSS, Malaysia
The study is essentially an exploratory survey, which sets out to obtain some concrete information on the knowledge and understanding of, and attitudes towards, the acquisition of job skills in history fieldwork method among Malaysian secondary schools pupils based on the Integrated Curriculum fo...
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Medwell Publishing
2010
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| Summary: | The study is essentially an exploratory survey, which sets out to obtain some concrete
information on the knowledge and understanding of, and attitudes towards, the acquisition of
job skills in history fieldwork method among Malaysian secondary schools pupils based on
the Integrated Curriculum for Secondary Schools (ICSS). The researcher employed the
stratified sampling method and selected two states in Malaysia, namely Perak and
Terengganu, involving four hundred pupils from each state. The finding reveals that a great
number of pupils perceived that basic jobs skills are acquired through fieldwork approaches
in history, the response of ‘Yes’ in Perak and Terengganu are almost the same, the highest
response of ‘Yes’ among schools was the Science, Form Four scores the highest with 91.2%
responses said ‘Yes’, the score among boys and girls were almost the same, and, the highest
score of agreement among ethnic groups was the Malays. Interestingly, it was discovered
from the interviewed that history fieldwork was related to professionals such as teacher,
administrator, archaeologist, lawyer, surveyor, and, engineer. It is hoped that the study would
raise concern, awareness and benefit to all involved in the teaching and learning of history
fieldwork to achieve the objectives of the Malaysian Philosophy of Education which is to
fulfil the ‘physical’, ‘emotional’, ‘intellectual’, ‘spiritual’, and ‘moral’ development of pupils
towards the dissemination of first class human capital in the millennium. |
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