Training and Development for Library and Media Teachers in Selected Malaysian School Resource Centres

Training and development for library and media teachers is used as means of achieving positive outcome results in school resource centre. However, it appears that many educational organisations in Malaysia including school resource centre have not paid sufficiently close attention to training and ca...

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Main Authors:	Kamal, M. A, Normah, Othman
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	2012
Subjects:	Z665 Library Science. Information Science Z719 Libraries (General) ZA Information resources
Online Access:	http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/12399/ http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/12399/1/Training%20and%20Development%20for%20Library%20and%20Media%20Teachers%20in%20Selected%20Malaysian%20School%20Resource%20Centres.pdf

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spelling	ump-123992016-03-22T07:49:07Z http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/12399/ Training and Development for Library and Media Teachers in Selected Malaysian School Resource Centres Kamal, M. A Normah, Othman Z665 Library Science. Information Science Z719 Libraries (General) ZA Information resources Training and development for library and media teachers is used as means of achieving positive outcome results in school resource centre. However, it appears that many educational organisations in Malaysia including school resource centre have not paid sufficiently close attention to training and career development of their human resources, leading to an under-utilisation of talent in the organisation. This study investigated the training and development practices at school resource centre. A questionnaire-based survey was carried out among a sample of the library media teachers in the Kemaman district of Malaysia. The study, which was aimed to investigate the training and development of human resource in school resource centre revealed that even though respondents were aware of and had appreciable knowledge of the policy, the fact that the training policy has not been formally instituted and implemented shows a lack of commitment on the part of the management of school authority towards developing its human resource at school resource centre. The training and development procedures at school resource centre have no standard practices. However, the relevance and effectiveness of the methods used were successful in equipping the library and media teachers with the required skills for their work. 2012 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/12399/1/Training%20and%20Development%20for%20Library%20and%20Media%20Teachers%20in%20Selected%20Malaysian%20School%20Resource%20Centres.pdf Kamal, M. A and Normah, Othman (2012) Training and Development for Library and Media Teachers in Selected Malaysian School Resource Centres. Journal of Education and Practice, 3 (6). ISSN 2222-1735 (Paper), 2222-288X (Online)
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description	Training and development for library and media teachers is used as means of achieving positive outcome results in school resource centre. However, it appears that many educational organisations in Malaysia including school resource centre have not paid sufficiently close attention to training and career development of their human resources, leading to an under-utilisation of talent in the organisation. This study investigated the training and development practices at school resource centre. A questionnaire-based survey was carried out among a sample of the library media teachers in the Kemaman district of Malaysia. The study, which was aimed to investigate the training and development of human resource in school resource centre revealed that even though respondents were aware of and had appreciable knowledge of the policy, the fact that the training policy has not been formally instituted and implemented shows a lack of commitment on the part of the management of school authority towards developing its human resource at school resource centre. The training and development procedures at school resource centre have no standard practices. However, the relevance and effectiveness of the methods used were successful in equipping the library and media teachers with the required skills for their work.
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author	Kamal, M. A Normah, Othman
author_facet	Kamal, M. A Normah, Othman
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title	Training and Development for Library and Media Teachers in Selected Malaysian School Resource Centres
title_short	Training and Development for Library and Media Teachers in Selected Malaysian School Resource Centres
title_full	Training and Development for Library and Media Teachers in Selected Malaysian School Resource Centres
title_fullStr	Training and Development for Library and Media Teachers in Selected Malaysian School Resource Centres
title_full_unstemmed	Training and Development for Library and Media Teachers in Selected Malaysian School Resource Centres
title_sort	training and development for library and media teachers in selected malaysian school resource centres
publishDate	2012
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Training and Development for Library and Media Teachers in Selected Malaysian School Resource Centres

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