scholarly journals OFFERING MALAYSIAN CITIZENSHIP COURSES FROM A NATIVE PERSPECTIVE: UNIVERSITY CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT WITH A COLLECTIVE MINDSET

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (23) ◽  
pp. 47-62
Author(s):  
Mohd Sohaimi Esa ◽  
Irma Wani Othman ◽  
Saifulazry Mokhtar ◽  
Anna Lynn Abu Bakar
Keyword(s):  
Curriculum Development ◽  
Tertiary Level ◽  
University Curriculum ◽  
Experience Teaching ◽  
Degree Level

Malaysian Nationhood courses are offered in conjunction with core or mandatory courses offered at the certificate, diploma, or first-degree level. This course was created to instil in students the values of patriotism and nationalism in the hope that they will grow into responsible citizens and stewards of the motherland. The course is offered to ensure that history subjects studied in school continue to be studied at the tertiary level. Thus, this article discusses the Malaysian Nationhood courses offered through the Anak Watan Platform. The Anak Watan Platform concept was based on the recognition that the Malays and Bumiputeras are the country's backbone, as enshrined in the Malaysian constitution. The methodology of the research is qualitative, relying on source-based documentation analysis, as well as the author's observations and experience teaching the nationhood course. The study's findings indicate that when developing the nationhood course curriculum, priority should be given to the elements found in the Anak Watan Platform concept to ensure that every student understands its importance in ensuring the sustainability of a peaceful and prosperous Malaysian nation.

scholarly journals Ontology of Public Health in University Curriculum: Exploring Basic Elements of an Interdisciplinary Field of Knowledge

2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 170
Author(s):  
Zahirul Islam
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Public Health ◽  
Curriculum Development ◽  
Academic Discipline ◽  
Health State ◽  
Interdisciplinary Field ◽  
University Curriculum ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Philosophical Doctrine ◽  
Epistemic Process

Public health has constituted itself as a distinct academic discipline. The present paper attempts to understand ontology of this discipline. A study has recently been carried out which concerns, first, conceptualization of ontology of public health, secondly, nature of public health, and thirdly, curriculum development. Ontology is a philosophical doctrine that refers to an understanding about the basic elements theorized about. As the paper unveils, the tenet of public health is that the health state is not a matter of ‘individual’ only; rather this is a question of the ‘collective’ too. Diverse aspects take forms of intellectual construction which are transformed into the subject of the discipline. They are categorized as worldview, theory, methodology, instrumentation, and application. The constructions are internalized in the discipline’s nature to be ‘epistemic’, ‘interdisciplinary’ and ‘componential’. In order to produce knowledge, the discipline involves an epistemic process consisting of priori and posteriori approaches. Public health, though the prevailing thoughts and practices are derived from biomedical paradigms, contains an interdisciplinary trait that draws from the fields of formal, organic, inorganic and social sciences. The discipline comes to be appeared as an integral whole being componential. The aforementioned categories of intellectual constructions are viewed as the basic elements of public health. Elements exist and operate in a center/periphery binary relationship. Center (worldview), while it holds the whole structure of the discipline together, limits the movement of rest elements and keeps them in the periphery. The paper concludes by pointing out few issues for developing curriculum for universities.

scholarly journals Principles for Tertiary-Level Astronomy Courses

2001 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 141-151
Author(s):  
Derek McNally
Keyword(s):  
Professional Experience ◽  
Tertiary Level ◽  
Degree Level ◽  
Do So ◽  
Course Of Study

AbstractAny worthwhile tertiary-level course of study should, as its highest priority, reflect the discipline it represents as it is contemporaneously practiced. Were it not to do so, students would be intellectually underprovided. This paper sets out general principles which a first degree-level course in astronomy should aim to provide for its students. No specific syllabi will be attempted but, rather, the paper will outline ranges of topics and their level of treatment. While all students taking such courses should have as professional experience as possible, it must be recognised that most students taking tertiary-level astronomy courses may not become professional astronomers and that such courses will necessarily have to have flexibility to meet local circumstances.

Curriculum Development in Mathematics

1981 ◽  
Author(s):  
Geoffrey Howson ◽  
Christine Keitel ◽  
Jeremy Kilpatrick
Keyword(s):  
Curriculum Development
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