scholarly journals THE RELEVANCE OF NATIONHOOD KNOWLEDGE IN MALAYSIAN STUDIES COURSES: A CONVEYANCE FOR NATIONAL UNITY AND AN INTEGRATION OF UNIVERSITY STUDENTS’ IDENTITY

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (23) ◽  
pp. 01-20
Author(s):  
Irma Wani Othman ◽  
Mohd Sohaimi Esa ◽  
Anna Lynn Abu Bakar ◽  
Saifulazry Mokhtar
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
University Students ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Online News ◽  
National Language ◽  
National Unity ◽  
Self Identity ◽  
Learning And Teaching ◽  
News Sources ◽  
Data Content

This paper debates the relevance of knowledge of nationhood as a conveyance for national unity identity and integration of university students’ self-identity in addressing the issues and challenges of the Covid-19 post-pandemic era. In dissecting the significance of university student’s understanding of the Malaysian Studies course, the thrust of this discussion perspective works on the two-pronged objectives of (1) identifying the relevance of national unity identity issues of the younger generation, and (2) examining the challenges of applying National Principles as self-identity integration of university students. The synthesis of the discussion was also embroidered on the nurturing of the national language in society and the issue of compliance with the country’s constitution and laws. The qualitative approach utilises secondary data content analysis methods, namely the results of research in journals, reports, books and online news sources. The results of the study show that the course education of the nature of Malaysian Studies is a strong medium that can help understand the knowledge of nationhood and foster the retention of self-identity among students. The element of integration is also argued to place the relevance of university students to know the origin of a national identity and to avoid being influenced by external negative cultures. Naturally, each individual learns norms, values and habits through socialisation agents such as family, education, government and peers. Therefore, in the context of the relevance of learning and teaching elements that contain aspects of Malaysian Studies, understanding the knowledge of nationhood is a critical agenda for the future of the country where the formation of national identity must be inculcated in every student to strengthen national unity.

scholarly journals CULTIVATING THE CONNOTATION OF “LANGUAGE IS THE SOUL OF THE NATION” REFLECTION OF NATIONAL IDENTITY TOWARDS SYNERGY OF SOLIDARITY AND HARMONISATION OF MALAYSIANS

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (41) ◽  
pp. 55-75
Author(s):  
Irma Wani Othman ◽  
Muhammad Safuan Yusoff ◽  
Herlina Jupiter ◽  
Saifulazry Mokhtar
Keyword(s):  
Mother Tongue ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Vital Role ◽  
Online News ◽  
National Language ◽  
The Status ◽  
Data Content ◽  
Printed Materials ◽  
Future Direction ◽  
Racial Mix

This paper discusses the culture connotation of “Bahasa Jiwa Bangsa” (Language is the Soul of the Nation) as a reflection inseminating element that symbolises the solidarity of the national language of the Malay language in order to achieve synergies harmonisation Malaysians. The arguments were highlighted with the aim of exploring the experience of Malaysia as a country famous for its unique racial mix but had to face various challenges in order to uphold the mother tongue. Secondary data content analysis methods utilise the results of the journals’ conclusions, reports, books, interviews, online news, and other printed materials. Underlying the background of the inaugural study, the selection of significant issues discussed and justified included arguments such as (i) Attitude, awareness, commitment, and responsibility of the community towards a consensus on national language empowerment, (ii) Social media phenomenon, and the influence of mass media in sustainability national language, (iii) The negligence preservation of the artworks production and national literature and (iv) The vital role of Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka (DBP) (Institute of Language and Literature) in promoting the cultivation of the connotation of “Bahasa Jiwa Bangsa”. The goal of the dispute through discussion emphasised the relevance of the drafting of the National Language Act 1963/67 which proves the state’s commitment to maintaining the continuity of the status of the Malay language through enforcement of legislation. The future direction of such a study should focus on the essence of further debate to support the mother tongue as one of the greatest treasures and heritage for Malaysians.

scholarly journals SHIFTING THE NATIONAL HIGHER EDUCATION LANDSCAPE IN FACING CURRENT CHALLENGES AND MARKETABILITY STRATEGIES OF COVID-19 PANDEMIC ERA GRADUATES

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (25) ◽  
pp. 139-156
Author(s):  
Irma Wani Othman
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Climate Scenario ◽  
Online News ◽  
Economic Climate ◽  
Data Content ◽  
Printed Materials ◽  
Future Direction ◽  
Spiritual Potential

This paper discusses the shift of the National Higher Education landscape in facing the current challenges and marketability strategies of Covid-19 pandemic era graduates. The submission is therefore aimed at discussing Malaysia’s experience as a country that has to face various challenges in mainstreaming and expanding the National Higher Education’s continuity strategically in the country’s uncertain economic climate scenario. Secondary data content analysis methods utilise the results of journals, reports, books, interviews, online news and other printed materials. Underlying the background of the inaugural study, a selection of significant issues lays justification that includes arguments focused on (i) MOHE challenges facing the Covid-19 pandemic Issue, (ii) Covid-19 pandemic era graduate marketability strategy, and (iii) MOHE incentives to assist students in facing the bleakness of Covid-19 pandemic. Disputation of the target of the discussion thoroughly emphasises the relevance of MOHE initiatives in reducing the unemployment rate, especially among high quality graduates where the group will make a huge contribution to the development and economy of the country. The future direction of such studies should focus on the essence of further debate on the role of the education sector and institutions of higher learning as a field for society to develop knowledge, thus giving a positive impact to produce graduates with intellectual, physical, emotional and spiritual potential.

scholarly journals A Study of a Sample of Facebook Users Finds They Do Not Seek Political News through Facebook But Are Exposed to Political News through This Medium

2018 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 36-38
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Margaret Stovold
Keyword(s):  
Online Survey ◽  
Online News ◽  
Social Utility ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Political News ◽  
High School Degree ◽  
News Sources ◽  
News Source ◽  
Tv News ◽  
The Mean

A Review of: Schaferm, S., Sulflow, M., & Muller, P. (2017). The special taste of snack news: an application of niche theory to understand the appeal of Facebook as a source for political news. First Monday, 22(4-3). http://dx.doi.org/10.5210/fm.v22i4.7431 Abstract Objective – To investigate Facebook as a source of exposure to political news stories and to compare the reasons for using Facebook as a news source and the gratifications obtained, compared with other news sources. Design – Survey questionnaire. Setting – Facebook. Subjects – 422 German Facebook users. Methods – An online survey was developed to investigate the use of Facebook as a news source compared with other sources. Specific research questions were informed by the ‘theory of niche’ (Dimmick, 2003) which examines the coexistence and competition between different media outlets by examining the breadth, overlap and superiority of one platform over another. The survey was distributed using a ‘snowball’ technique between July and August 2015. The survey was shared by 52 student research assistants on their Facebook profiles. They asked their friends to complete the survey and share it with their own networks. Main results – The mean (M) age of the 422 respondents was 23.5 years (SD=8.25). The majority were female (61%) with a high school degree (89%). TV news and news websites were the most frequently used sources of political news. Facebook ranked third, ahead of newspapers, search engines, magazines, email provider websites, and Twitter. The mean score for the importance of Facebook as a news sources was 2.46 (SD=1.13) on a scale of 1 to 5, where 1 is low and 5 is high. This fell in the middle of the range when compared with the top ranked source assessed by importance (TV news, M 4.40, SD=0.88) and the lowest (email providers, M 1.92, SD=0.97). Users rarely visited Facebook with the purpose of finding news (M 1.59, SD=0.73). However, they estimated around 24% of the posts they see were concerned with political news, and when encountered, these stories are frequently read (M 3.53, SD=1.18). However, the level of interaction as measured by liking, commenting, sharing or status updates was low (M 1.94 SD=1.09; M 1.37, SD=0.79; M 1.51, SD=0.85 and M 1.4, SD=0.78 respectively). The ‘gratification’ categories where Facebook as a news source scored the highest were for killing time (M 2.97, SD=1.29), entertainment (M 2.92, SD=1.05), and surveillance (M 2.77, SD=1.01). When compared to newspapers and TV news, it was found that Facebook has a lower score for niche breadth, meaning that it serves a specific rather than general news function. Facebook also had a lower overlap score when compared with the other media, thereby performing a complementary function, while TV news and newspapers perform similarly. TV news scored better for providing balanced information, surveillance and social utility while Facebook scored highest for killing time. There was no difference in the category of entertainment. There was a similar picture when comparing Facebook with newspapers. Conclusion – The authors conclude that while users do not actively seek political news through Facebook, they are exposed to political news through this medium. Respondents did not consider the news to be well balanced, and that currently Facebooks’ niche is restricted to entertainment and killing time. The authors note that this may be disappointing for news organisations, but there is potential to expose large audiences to political news when they are not actively seeking it. The findings represent a specific time point in a changing landscape and future research will need to take these changes into account. Comparisons with other online news sources and the use of objective measures to validate self-reported data would be valuable areas for future research.

Effectiveness of an Enhancement Program on Taiwanese University Students' Self-Concept

2014 ◽  
Vol 114 (1) ◽  
pp. 176-184 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Jen Der Pan ◽  
Liang-Yu F. Deng ◽  
Shiou Ling Tsai ◽  
Iue-Ruey Sue ◽  
Jye-Ru Karen Jiang
Keyword(s):  
University Students ◽  
Waiting List ◽  
Self Concept ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Cultural Issues ◽  
Self Identity ◽  
Counseling Practice ◽  
Educational Treatment ◽  
Experimental Group

This study examined the effectiveness of a Self-Concept Enhancement Program (SCEP) on Taiwanese university students. Participants were randomly assigned to an experimental group ( n = 30) and a waiting-list control group ( n = 30). The experimental group received SCEP psycho-educational treatment for 8 weeks, whereas the control group did not. Results indicated significant improvements on physical, personal, self-identity, and total self-concept in the experimental group, but not in the control group. Participants evaluated the SCEP as useful, beneficial, and powerful in promoting their self-concept. Cultural issues were highlighted and discussed. Implications for research and counseling practice are suggested.

Citizenship Education for the Fourth Industrial Revolution

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 1278-1293
Author(s):  
Nur Atiqah Tang Abdullah Et.al
Keyword(s):  
Citizenship Education ◽  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
Nation Building ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
National Unity ◽  
Learning And Teaching ◽  
Fourth Industrial Revolution ◽  
Process Learning ◽  
Unity In Diversity ◽  
Present Effort

This chapter explores Citizenship Education in Malaysia in the context of its current experiences as we approach the era of Fourth Industrial Revolution. As a cultural discourse, the problematic conception of citizenship is a product of social fragmentation in Malaysia. Citizenship can carry two meanings - legal and sociological. The legal simply refers to a subject’s right and duties to be recognized as a legally permanent inhabitant of a state. Secondly, the development of citizenship, understood in sociological terms, would involve a transformative process in which individuals come to see themselves as part of a wider citizen body, to which they owe obligations involving duties as well as having rights. As such, ‘citizenship’ in this chapter refers to an educational process: learning and teaching to improve or achieve the aims inherent to the legal meaning. The objective of this chapter is to pull together citizenship and education as central themes, - not legal but the sociological aspects, with the ‘nations-of-intent’ as a conceptual framework. Nevertheless, the present effort of citizenship education in Malaysia is based on a particular form of ‘nation-of-intent’ (Bangsa Malaysia). As nation-building in Malaysia is a state without a nation (and it has many nations-of-intent), the present effort does not include ideas to the nation when promoting citizenship education- the notion of ‘equality in diversity’ and not only ‘unity in diversity’. The concept of citizenship and citizenship education in Malaysia is prompting only one form of ‘nation-of intent’ available in the country, whereas, there are other nations as well, apparently. An implication of it is that the concept of citizenship and thus, nation-building in Malaysia is still fraught with confusion. The presence of plurality of ‘nations-of-intent’ in contemporary Malaysia demonstrates the fact that dissenting voices are present and heard, within and without government. To some degree, it is necessary, for the underlying reason that the identification and sense of belonging of individuals and communities themselves are fragmented, not necessarily conducive to the knowledge of national unity. Hence, in the context of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, there is a need to clarify and explore the meaning of citizenship in diverse and democratic Malaysian as a nation-state, the multiple views of citizenship and the dimensions of citizenship education.

Factors Affecting on Entrepreneurial Intention of University Students (Case Study on Wollo University)

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Abdu Kamil
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Factors ◽  
University Students ◽  
Family Background ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Entrepreneurial Intention ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
Personal Factors ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
College Of Business

Abstract Background: Entrepreneurship is essential in creating, fulfilling and forming a healthy economy. This study is conducted to investigate Factor Affecting on Entrepreneurial Intention: The case study on Wollo University Students. Some studies have been done in this area but only a few were conducted in Ethiopia. This research aims to address the gap that exists due to the weakness of previous studies to verify the factors that affect entrepreneurial intention and provide more clarification on the topic. Methods: For the purpose of this study explanatory research design was employed. The researcher used stratified random sampling to classify all participants into seven colleges and one school of law. From each stratum proportionally by using purposive sampling to select 226 respondents with graduate students from college of business and economics for the desire of the study. Both primary and secondary data were collected. Primary data were collected through structured questionnaire from 210 students. Secondary data were collected from previous studies and used as reference. Results: The correlation and regression analysis has been applied to see the relationship and how independent variables influence entrepreneurial intention. From the analyses it is confirmed that demographic factors have statistically insignificant effect on entrepreneurial intention, while personal factors, environmental factors and family background have a statistically significant effect on entrepreneurial intention. Conclusions: Based on the findings it is concluded that demographic factor does not affect entrepreneurial intention while personal factors, environmental factors and family background affect entrepreneurial intention.

Perception of factuality in selected online news media

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 134-148
Author(s):  
Eva Eddy
Keyword(s):  
University Students ◽  
News Media ◽  
Media Use ◽  
Online News ◽  
The Other ◽  
News Report ◽  
Specific Event ◽  
The Way

Abstract The paper focuses on one’s perception of factuality in selected online news media. A group of university students of English were approached and presented with ten statements about Sweden and asked to evaluate their truthfulness. Half of the group (informed respondents) were then advised on the ways media use to infer a narrative onto the reader, potentially influencing the way they view events, while the other half (uninformed respondents) were not made aware of this fact. The respondents were then presented with a news report describing a specific event that took place in Sweden; however, half of each group were asked to read its tabloid description while the other halves were shown the event as reported by a broadsheet (both online). They were then asked to reevaluate the statements they were presented with before and decide whether their opinions changed based on the article they had just read. The results suggest that one is inclined to believe what they read, regardless whether the source seems reliable and whether they are aware of the fact media might manipulate their audiences.

scholarly journals Personal Projects’ Appraisals and Compulsive Buying among University Students: Evidence from Galicia, Spain

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (24) ◽  
pp. 13509
Author(s):  
José Manuel Otero-López ◽  
María José Santiago ◽  
María Cristina Castro
Keyword(s):  
University Students ◽  
Behavioral Problem ◽  
Compulsive Buying ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Subjective Well Being ◽  
Personal Projects ◽  
Self Identity ◽  
Level Of Involvement ◽  
High Propensity ◽  
Meaning Structure

The appraisal of goal-related constructs, generally, and of personal projects (PP) in particular, is one of the most solid research paths with regard to subjective well-being and health. In the last few years, the appraisal of PP has been linked to such problems as excessive alcohol and marijuana use, but no study has been conducted in the field of compulsive buying (CB). In this study, using Little’s personal-projects-analysis (PPA) methodology, the differences in university students were analyzed in both broad domains (meaning, structure, community, efficacy, and stress) and specific appraisal dimensions in groups with low (n = 293), moderate (n = 191), and high (n = 41) compulsive-buying propensities. The results confirm that the high-propensity group presented the highest significant levels in the domain of stress and the lowest in efficacy, meaning, and structure. As to appraisal dimensions, the group with a high propensity to CB attained statistically lower appraisals in the dimensions of importance, enjoyment, self-identity, absorption, control, time adequacy, progress, and outcome of their projects; the appraisal of the level of stress, difficulty, and conflict increased as the level of involvement in CB increased. These findings have major implications for the design of prevention and intervention programs for this behavioral problem.

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