Malaysian Education What to Keep and What Not to

“The Malaysian Public School System:

What do we change? What do we keep?”

Abstract

This task cum study is aimed at equipping the researcher with basic skills in collecting and analysing qualitative data by means of a research topic entitled, “The Malaysian Public School System: What do we change? What do we keep?” based on primary and secondary schools. This task cum study aims at teaching a researcher how to identify, approach and request a prospective interviewee (in this case 3 interviewees) for an interview on the research topic specified. Also the researcher gets to decide the best tool to apply to record the interview to do detailed/comprehensive transcription.

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In order to verify and substantiate the task cum study, the researcher is asked to read and collect at least three documents that are related to the Malaysian public school system. The documentsare to support the outcomes of the interviews, as well as those that will give an in-depth understanding of Malaysian public schools. Some ofthese may be historical accounts and others may be related to curricular or instructional issues. The researcher learns to derive a thematic framework based on a preliminary response to the topic: “The Malaysian Public Education System: What do we change? What do we keep?” from the main issues, concepts and ideas that are raised by the interviewees and in the documents read. Once a list of themes is identified, dominant themes are considered and identified on how they may be substantiated by the data.

1.0 INTRODUCTION

“Education system is the best tool for the three major ethnic groups in multicultural Malaysia to work together. Education is a deliberate attempt to construct human beings who will participate in society as productive citizens. The question whether our education system should be designed or not is quite irrelevant when education, schooling, training, indoctrination, and the spectrum of ways by which the child is "schooled" are all based...