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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Main Authors:	Salleh, Mohamad Johdi, Ahmad, Abdul Razaq, Zainal Abiddin, Norhasni
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Published:	Medwell Publishing 2010
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spelling	iium-116592012-01-11T03:15:59Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/11659/ The acquisition of basic job skills in fieldwork approaches to history, ICSS, Malaysia Salleh, Mohamad Johdi Ahmad, Abdul Razaq Zainal Abiddin, Norhasni L Education (General) 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. Medwell Publishing 2010 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/11659/1/Jurnal_-_MEDWELL_-_History_Fieldwork_%26_Job_Skills.pdf application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/11659/4/The_Acquisition_of_Basic_Job_Skills_in_Fieldwork_Approaches_to_History%2C_ICSS%2C_Malaysia.pdf Salleh, Mohamad Johdi and Ahmad, Abdul Razaq and Zainal Abiddin, Norhasni (2010) The acquisition of basic job skills in fieldwork approaches to history, ICSS, Malaysia. The Social Sciences, 5 (3). pp. 194-201. ISSN 1818-5800 http://www.medwelljournals.com/abstract/?doi=sscience.2010.194.201 DOI: 10.3923/sscience.2010.194.201
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description	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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author	Salleh, Mohamad Johdi Ahmad, Abdul Razaq Zainal Abiddin, Norhasni
author_facet	Salleh, Mohamad Johdi Ahmad, Abdul Razaq Zainal Abiddin, Norhasni
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title	The acquisition of basic job skills in fieldwork approaches to history, ICSS, Malaysia
title_short	The acquisition of basic job skills in fieldwork approaches to history, ICSS, Malaysia
title_full	The acquisition of basic job skills in fieldwork approaches to history, ICSS, Malaysia
title_fullStr	The acquisition of basic job skills in fieldwork approaches to history, ICSS, Malaysia
title_full_unstemmed	The acquisition of basic job skills in fieldwork approaches to history, ICSS, Malaysia
title_sort	acquisition of basic job skills in fieldwork approaches to history, icss, malaysia
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