Pub Date : 2019-09-28DOI: 10.22452/MOJEM.VOL7NO4.5
Ahmad Tanzeh
School success is determined by not only teachers and principals but also greatly influenced by the principal through managerial capability in creating high teacher morale. High teacher morale is certainly intended to support the realization of organizational goals of the school. The purpose of this study was to describe direct correlation between the effectiveness of school quality planning and capacity of organizing personnel and teachers’ work motivation. To achieve the given objective, a quantitative approach was used. In the perspective of the data analysis, this study belonged to a correlational research. The research was conducted in Islamic school in Blitar regency, East Java, Indonesia. The sample of the study was 100 teachers, taken from 224 teachers as the population. The data were collected by distributing questionnaires that had fulfilled the requirement of having high levels of validity and reliability. Hypothesis testing was done by using SEM (Structural Equation Modeling). Meanwhile, descriptive analysis was done by using a computer program Amos 04. The results of descriptive analysis revealed that: (1) The average level of the effectiveness of school quality planning, capacity of organizing personnel, and work motivation was categorized as high, (2) Comprehensively, the conceptual model of the correlation of the developed variable was fit (good) and it fulfilled the standard requirement of goodness-of-fit, so that it could be used to test hypothesis.
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Pub Date : 2019-06-28DOI: 10.22452/mojem.vol7no3.2
Habibat Yusuf, I. Amzat, K. Saidin
School effectiveness is a global issue among education stakeholders particularly in developing countries where difficulties in delivering quality education is widespread. However, internal and external factors in schools make school outcomes unpredictable, thus making bureaucracy an effective managerial and analytical tool which can be used to examine and direct organizational structure. This study examined the mediating effect of school-based management on school climate, bureaucracy and effectiveness in secondary schools. A quantitative research of cross-sectional survey with population of 7,533 teachers was employed. Four sets of instruments were adapted and administered on sample of 350 teachers in Nigeria secondary schools through stratified random sampling of the proportionate method. Structural Equation Modelling (SEM) analysis was employed to test the fitness of data in relation to constructs in the model and further confirm hypotheses generated for this study. The findings of revealed that underlying predictors were true measure of their respective constructs. There is a mediation effect of school-based management on bureaucracy and school effectiveness while other path analysis revealed that school-based management did not mediate between school climate and school effectiveness. This study expands theory on bureaucracy as bright side and validates the assertion that, bureaucracy is required in public schools.
{"title":"THE MEDIATING EFFECT OF SCHOOL-BASED MANAGEMENT ON SCHOOL CLIMATE, BUREAUCRACY AND EFFECTIVENESS IN SECONDARY SCHOOL","authors":"Habibat Yusuf, I. Amzat, K. Saidin","doi":"10.22452/mojem.vol7no3.2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22452/mojem.vol7no3.2","url":null,"abstract":"School effectiveness is a global issue among education stakeholders particularly in developing countries where difficulties in delivering quality education is widespread. However, internal and external factors in schools make school outcomes unpredictable, thus making bureaucracy an effective managerial and analytical tool which can be used to examine and direct organizational structure. This study examined the mediating effect of school-based management on school climate, bureaucracy and effectiveness in secondary schools. A quantitative research of cross-sectional survey with population of 7,533 teachers was employed. Four sets of instruments were adapted and administered on sample of 350 teachers in Nigeria secondary schools through stratified random sampling of the proportionate method. Structural Equation Modelling (SEM) analysis was employed to test the fitness of data in relation to constructs in the model and further confirm hypotheses generated for this study. The findings of revealed that underlying predictors were true measure of their respective constructs. There is a mediation effect of school-based management on bureaucracy and school effectiveness while other path analysis revealed that school-based management did not mediate between school climate and school effectiveness. This study expands theory on bureaucracy as bright side and validates the assertion that, bureaucracy is required in public schools.","PeriodicalId":37473,"journal":{"name":"Malaysian Online Journal of Educational Management","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-06-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48753521","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2019-06-28DOI: 10.22452/mojem.vol7no3.5
X. Sai, H. Kenayathulla, S. Siraj
With the rapid social and economic development, the entrepreneurship skills become more important for the youth to ensure positive development of youth leadership skills. The purpose of this study is to investigate the entrepreneurship skills of urban youth and then develop a model for youth entrepreneurship skills of the community- based leadership training for the urban youth in China. In this study, two methods have been applied: students’ questionnaire survey and the Fuzzy Delphi Method by experts. This study involved 526 students aged 14 to 18 years old in four secondary schools and high schools in Baoding city, Shijiazhuang city, Chengde city and Handan city in Hebei Province for survey. The findings from the survey show that the levels of entrepreneurship skills are still at moderate level. The Fuzzy Delphi Method was conducted to eighteen experts from the fields of education, language, Chinese Studies, accounting and business, and life sciences to get a consensus on youth entrepreneurship skills and related activities. The results demonstrate that there are three categories of skills for the entrepreneurship namely, visiting the local famous enterprises; the lecture activities of successful entrepreneur to share their experiences to make the youth start to learn entrepreneurship; and the activities of financial literacy and personal finance.
{"title":"A MODEL FOR YOUTH ENTREPRENEURSHIP SKILLS OF THE COMMUNITY-BASED LEADERSHIP TRAINING FOR THE URBAN YOUTH IN CHINA","authors":"X. Sai, H. Kenayathulla, S. Siraj","doi":"10.22452/mojem.vol7no3.5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22452/mojem.vol7no3.5","url":null,"abstract":"With the rapid social and economic development, the entrepreneurship skills become more important for the youth to ensure positive development of youth leadership skills. The purpose of this study is to investigate the entrepreneurship skills of urban youth and then develop a model for youth entrepreneurship skills of the community- based leadership training for the urban youth in China. In this study, two methods have been applied: students’ questionnaire survey and the Fuzzy Delphi Method by experts. This study involved 526 students aged 14 to 18 years old in four secondary schools and high schools in Baoding city, Shijiazhuang city, Chengde city and Handan city in Hebei Province for survey. The findings from the survey show that the levels of entrepreneurship skills are still at moderate level. The Fuzzy Delphi Method was conducted to eighteen experts from the fields of education, language, Chinese Studies, accounting and business, and life sciences to get a consensus on youth entrepreneurship skills and related activities. The results demonstrate that there are three categories of skills for the entrepreneurship namely, visiting the local famous enterprises; the lecture activities of successful entrepreneur to share their experiences to make the youth start to learn entrepreneurship; and the activities of financial literacy and personal finance.","PeriodicalId":37473,"journal":{"name":"Malaysian Online Journal of Educational Management","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-06-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48788801","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2019-06-28DOI: 10.22452/mojem.vol7no3.4
M. Hassan, H. Sulaiman, G. Darusalam, Aini Arifah Abdul Karim, Norfariza Mohd Radzi
The management of role stress is becoming more dominant issue in the career life of teachers due to various roles that teachers need to play in their job. Among the factors of role stress are role conflicts, role ambiguity and role overload. The main purpose of this research is to study the influence of selected factors such as role conflict factor, role ambiguity and role overload on role stress among the Malaysian National Primary School teachers. This study was designed by utilizing the quantitative approach. The instrument used was a questionnaire which has been adapted from various relevant researchers. A total of 150 teachers were randomly selected as respondents and the data obtained were analysed using SPSS for descriptive statistics and Smart PLS for the inferential statistics. The findings show that the level of stress was at moderate level. In addition, the findings indicate that there is a significant relationship between role conflicts (s=0.212, t=2.640, P=0.009), role ambiguity (s=0.219, t=2.701, P=0.007) and role overload (s=0.372, t=4.364, P=0.000) to role stress. As a conclusion, this study demonstrates that role conflicts, role ambiguity and role overload have a major impact to the role stress of teachers in Malaysia. It is hoped that through this study, various stakeholders such as schools, the district education offices as well as the Ministry of Education will be able to assist in planning and organizing efforts to address the role stress issues in order to produce highly qualified teachers.
{"title":"MANAGEMENT OF ROLE STRESS AMONG THE MALAYSIAN PRIMARY SCHOOL TEACHERS","authors":"M. Hassan, H. Sulaiman, G. Darusalam, Aini Arifah Abdul Karim, Norfariza Mohd Radzi","doi":"10.22452/mojem.vol7no3.4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22452/mojem.vol7no3.4","url":null,"abstract":"The management of role stress is becoming more dominant issue in the career life of teachers due to various roles that teachers need to play in their job. Among the factors of role stress are role conflicts, role ambiguity and role overload. The main purpose of this research is to study the influence of selected factors such as role conflict factor, role ambiguity and role overload on role stress among the Malaysian National Primary School teachers. This study was designed by utilizing the quantitative approach. The instrument used was a questionnaire which has been adapted from various relevant researchers. A total of 150 teachers were randomly selected as respondents and the data obtained were analysed using SPSS for descriptive statistics and Smart PLS for the inferential statistics. The findings show that the level of stress was at moderate level. In addition, the findings indicate that there is a significant relationship between role conflicts (s=0.212, t=2.640, P=0.009), role ambiguity (s=0.219, t=2.701, P=0.007) and role overload (s=0.372, t=4.364, P=0.000) to role stress. As a conclusion, this study demonstrates that role conflicts, role ambiguity and role overload have a major impact to the role stress of teachers in Malaysia. It is hoped that through this study, various stakeholders such as schools, the district education offices as well as the Ministry of Education will be able to assist in planning and organizing efforts to address the role stress issues in order to produce highly qualified teachers.","PeriodicalId":37473,"journal":{"name":"Malaysian Online Journal of Educational Management","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-06-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46169303","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2019-06-28DOI: 10.22452/MOJEM.VOL7NO3.3
V. Huong, Nguyen Thi Thanh Tung
The purpose of this paper is to examine the degree awareness and skills to which lecturers manage classroom relating to improve the activities in the class effectively. This study used a quantitative approach to data collection. Questionnaire consisted of awareness and evaluation of 96 lecturers and students about classroom management in Vietnam universities. The reliability of the test was calculated with the SPSS 18.0 package software. The findings reflect three components in classroom management of lecturers: Building the classroom environment; Developing regulations and guidelines in classroom teaching and engaging students in classroom management. Upon the model, participants realized the importance of lectures in classroom management. Most lecturers and students have access to the contents of classroom management in the teaching process and carry out their learning tasks. Lectures tried their best to carry out in three basic contents. However, students’ do not have enough time to approach and master it before graduation and there are also the number of students who think their lecturers perform unusually or never implemented some activities such as engaging students in classroom management. The paper adds to the growing literature on classroom management in higher education and takes place semi interview lecturers and students. In addition, the paper also provides evidence of the process in which lecturers manage the class to adjust the view of lecturers, students, administration in the university to improve the learning activities. In addition, the paper invites reflection on the design and implementation of researchers from academic developers, education practitioners and researchers in similar contexts.
{"title":"PERSPECTIVES OF LECTURERS AND STUDENTS ON CLASSROOM MANAGEMENT IN VIETNAM UNIVERSITIES","authors":"V. Huong, Nguyen Thi Thanh Tung","doi":"10.22452/MOJEM.VOL7NO3.3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22452/MOJEM.VOL7NO3.3","url":null,"abstract":"The purpose of this paper is to examine the degree awareness and skills to which lecturers manage classroom relating to improve the activities in the class effectively. This study used a quantitative approach to data collection. Questionnaire consisted of awareness and evaluation of 96 lecturers and students about classroom management in Vietnam universities. The reliability of the test was calculated with the SPSS 18.0 package software. The findings reflect three components in classroom management of lecturers: Building the classroom environment; Developing regulations and guidelines in classroom teaching and engaging students in classroom management. Upon the model, participants realized the importance of lectures in classroom management. Most lecturers and students have access to the contents of classroom management in the teaching process and carry out their learning tasks. Lectures tried their best to carry out in three basic contents. However, students’ do not have enough time to approach and master it before graduation and there are also the number of students who think their lecturers perform unusually or never implemented some activities such as engaging students in classroom management. The paper adds to the growing literature on classroom management in higher education and takes place semi interview lecturers and students. In addition, the paper also provides evidence of the process in which lecturers manage the class to adjust the view of lecturers, students, administration in the university to improve the learning activities. In addition, the paper invites reflection on the design and implementation of researchers from academic developers, education practitioners and researchers in similar contexts.","PeriodicalId":37473,"journal":{"name":"Malaysian Online Journal of Educational Management","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-06-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47003609","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2019-06-28DOI: 10.22452/mojem.vol7no3.1
Tiew Chia Chun, Melissa Ng Lee Yen Abdullah
As a move towards educational transformation, the Ministry of Education (MOE) has established a policy on the teaching of Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS) and its practices are being emphasized throughout Malaysian education system. However, due to a lack of meta-analysis, the types of pedagogical practices used by teachers in enhancing students’ HOTS in the local context is unclear. This study used a meta-analytical approach to fill in the gap in literature on the pedagogical practices of HOTS in Malaysian classrooms. A total of 32 empirical studies were included in the analyses. Therefore, this paper aims at synthesising the pedagogical practices of teaching HOTS among Malaysian teachers. The findings offered a synthesis of HOTS pedagogical practices employed by teachers in Malaysian schools, which could be categorised as practices that promote and practices that inhibit the teaching of HOTS. The synthesis revealed that some practices that promoted the teaching of HOTS were brainstorming, constructivist learning, inquiry teaching, thinking map, and problem-based learning whereas some practices that inhibited the teaching of HOTS were teacher-centered learning and teaching lower-order thinking skills.
{"title":"THE TEACHING OF HIGHER ORDER THINKING SKILLS (HOTS) IN MALAYSIAN SCHOOLS: POLICY AND PRACTICES","authors":"Tiew Chia Chun, Melissa Ng Lee Yen Abdullah","doi":"10.22452/mojem.vol7no3.1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22452/mojem.vol7no3.1","url":null,"abstract":"As a move towards educational transformation, the Ministry of Education (MOE) has established a policy on the teaching of Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS) and its practices are being emphasized throughout Malaysian education system. However, due to a lack of meta-analysis, the types of pedagogical practices used by teachers in enhancing students’ HOTS in the local context is unclear. This study used a meta-analytical approach to fill in the gap in literature on the pedagogical practices of HOTS in Malaysian classrooms. A total of 32 empirical studies were included in the analyses. Therefore, this paper aims at synthesising the pedagogical practices of teaching HOTS among Malaysian teachers. The findings offered a synthesis of HOTS pedagogical practices employed by teachers in Malaysian schools, which could be categorised as practices that promote and practices that inhibit the teaching of HOTS. The synthesis revealed that some practices that promoted the teaching of HOTS were brainstorming, constructivist learning, inquiry teaching, thinking map, and problem-based learning whereas some practices that inhibited the teaching of HOTS were teacher-centered learning and teaching lower-order thinking skills.","PeriodicalId":37473,"journal":{"name":"Malaysian Online Journal of Educational Management","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-06-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46025779","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2019-04-01DOI: 10.22452/mojem.vol7no1.4
Eugenio S. Guhao, Jr.
{"title":"ORGANIZATIONAL COMMITMENT OF PUBLIC SCHOOL TEACHERS: A STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELING ANALYSIS","authors":"Eugenio S. Guhao, Jr.","doi":"10.22452/mojem.vol7no1.4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22452/mojem.vol7no1.4","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":37473,"journal":{"name":"Malaysian Online Journal of Educational Management","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46297620","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2019-03-28DOI: 10.22452/MOJEM/VOL7NO2.5
Kenny S. L. Cheah
In Malaysia, there is a Nature Education School (NES) conducting Environmental Educational Programs (EEP) in Janda Baik, Pahang since year 2011. Basically, EEP integrates the teaching of environmental content knowledge within the natural resources in the village. In terms of growth, the NES have witnessed increasing demand of EEP from both public and private schools due to the need to support students’ learning experience that are not achievable in the classrooms. This phenomenon has led to the purpose of research to explore the unique strategies, benefits, and challenges of the NES while dealing with EEP in their context. In terms of research design, it is an explorative case study using the method of participantobservation, prolonged engagement, purposive sampling and data collection from 16 key respondents that includes interviews with the Principal of NES and the middle management, online surveys with selected members from the village’s Private Resort Operators’ Association (PROA) and 10 facilitators who had been actively involved in the planning, organizing, leading and the monitoring of EEP in the last 5 years. For data analyses, the respondents’ transcripts were coded through open, axial and selective coding. In addition, triangulation method was used to compare between with field-notes, on-site interviews and online surveys to improve the credibility, dependability, and confirmability of data. As findings, the NES in the case study experienced both contextual benefits and challenges that require unique educational management and leadership strategies in their EEP. Discussion from this case study suggests four unique strategies used by the NES to implement EEP successfully: (a) Planning the EEP module must be visionary and capitalize on environmental content knowledge through links with field experts and universities, organisational learning and training; (b) Organizing of EEP must consider the people, task, content, processes and the availability of natural resource; (c) Leading visitors to focus on sustainable use of natural resource and contributing to future programs of EEP; and (d) Monitoring the organisation’s systems, visibility and specialisation in EEP. As for future suggestions of research, the tasks of evaluating the quality of EEPs ought to consider other factors such as; (a) exploring andragogy for adult participants in EEP, (b) creating advance EEP modules for the facilitators, and (c) Creative and innovative use of natural resources for EEP.
{"title":"IMPLEMENTATION OF ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION PROGRAM (EEP) IN A NATURE EDUCATION SCHOOL (NES): STRATEGIES, BENEFITS & CHALLENGES","authors":"Kenny S. L. Cheah","doi":"10.22452/MOJEM/VOL7NO2.5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22452/MOJEM/VOL7NO2.5","url":null,"abstract":"In Malaysia, there is a Nature Education School (NES) conducting Environmental Educational Programs (EEP) in Janda Baik, Pahang since year 2011. Basically, EEP integrates the teaching of environmental content knowledge within the natural resources in the village. In terms of growth, the NES have witnessed increasing demand of EEP from both public and private schools due to the need to support students’ learning experience that are not achievable in the classrooms. This phenomenon has led to the purpose of research to explore the unique strategies, benefits, and challenges of the NES while dealing with EEP in their context. In terms of research design, it is an explorative case study using the method of participantobservation, prolonged engagement, purposive sampling and data collection from 16 key respondents that includes interviews with the Principal of NES and the middle management, online surveys with selected members from the village’s Private Resort Operators’ Association (PROA) and 10 facilitators who had been actively involved in the planning, organizing, leading and the monitoring of EEP in the last 5 years. For data analyses, the respondents’ transcripts were coded through open, axial and selective coding. In addition, triangulation method was used to compare between with field-notes, on-site interviews and online surveys to improve the credibility, dependability, and confirmability of data. As findings, the NES in the case study experienced both contextual benefits and challenges that require unique educational management and leadership strategies in their EEP. Discussion from this case study suggests four unique strategies used by the NES to implement EEP successfully: (a) Planning the EEP module must be visionary and capitalize on environmental content knowledge through links with field experts and universities, organisational learning and training; (b) Organizing of EEP must consider the people, task, content, processes and the availability of natural resource; (c) Leading visitors to focus on sustainable use of natural resource and contributing to future programs of EEP; and (d) Monitoring the organisation’s systems, visibility and specialisation in EEP. As for future suggestions of research, the tasks of evaluating the quality of EEPs ought to consider other factors such as; (a) exploring andragogy for adult participants in EEP, (b) creating advance EEP modules for the facilitators, and (c) Creative and innovative use of natural resources for EEP.","PeriodicalId":37473,"journal":{"name":"Malaysian Online Journal of Educational Management","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68675183","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2019-03-28DOI: 10.22452/MOJEM.VOL7NO2.2
Joseph M. Velarde, M. Ghani
International schools present a promising setting in the exploration of leadership in culturally diverse organisations. Due to heightened global interconnectivity, the increasing number of international schools in the Asia Pacific region leads to the evergrowing formation of multicultural learning environments. Aside from being one of the countries with the largest number of international school students in Southeast Asia, Malaysia offers a socio-culturally distinct venue for understanding the organisational dynamics of international schools in a heterogeneous society. Hence, this study primarily aims to present the perspectives of international school teachers on the practices and programmes employed by school leaders with respect to cultural diversity. Taking the viewpoints of school teachers, this case study focuses on how school leaders perform in the midst of the culturally diverse environment of an international school in Malaysia. Thirteen teachers from a prominent international school in Kuala Lumpur were purposefully selected to participate in semi-structured interview sessions. To substantiate the responses from the interviews, five teachers from the same school participated in a focus group discussion. The data from the individual interviews and focus group discussion were triangulated with observation field notes and document analysis. The collated data were thematically analysed using Atlas.ti. The emerging themes revolve around the following: leadership practices with respect to cultural diversity; programmes and policies promoting cultural awareness; and, leadership effects on the school community. Having students and teachers coming from different socio-cultural backgrounds, international schools pose both opportunities and challenges for leadership. Guided by the findings of this study, international school leaders and teachers may design their curriculum and initiate new co-curricular or organisational programmes promoting cultural diversity to benefit students and teachers. More than identifying leadership practices and institutionalised programmes in managing cultural differences, this study calls for further introspection and action to harness the potentials of leadership in promoting harmony in diversity for societal development.
{"title":"INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL LEADERSHIP IN MALAYSIA: EXPLORING TEACHERS’ PERSPECTIVES ON LEADING IN A CULTURALLY DIVERSE ENVIRONMENT","authors":"Joseph M. Velarde, M. Ghani","doi":"10.22452/MOJEM.VOL7NO2.2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22452/MOJEM.VOL7NO2.2","url":null,"abstract":"International schools present a promising setting in the exploration of leadership in culturally diverse organisations. Due to heightened global interconnectivity, the increasing number of international schools in the Asia Pacific region leads to the evergrowing formation of multicultural learning environments. Aside from being one of the countries with the largest number of international school students in Southeast Asia, Malaysia offers a socio-culturally distinct venue for understanding the organisational dynamics of international schools in a heterogeneous society. Hence, this study primarily aims to present the perspectives of international school teachers on the practices and programmes employed by school leaders with respect to cultural diversity. Taking the viewpoints of school teachers, this case study focuses on how school leaders perform in the midst of the culturally diverse environment of an international school in Malaysia. Thirteen teachers from a prominent international school in Kuala Lumpur were purposefully selected to participate in semi-structured interview sessions. To substantiate the responses from the interviews, five teachers from the same school participated in a focus group discussion. The data from the individual interviews and focus group discussion were triangulated with observation field notes and document analysis. The collated data were thematically analysed using Atlas.ti. The emerging themes revolve around the following: leadership practices with respect to cultural diversity; programmes and policies promoting cultural awareness; and, leadership effects on the school community. Having students and teachers coming from different socio-cultural backgrounds, international schools pose both opportunities and challenges for leadership. Guided by the findings of this study, international school leaders and teachers may design their curriculum and initiate new co-curricular or organisational programmes promoting cultural diversity to benefit students and teachers. More than identifying leadership practices and institutionalised programmes in managing cultural differences, this study calls for further introspection and action to harness the potentials of leadership in promoting harmony in diversity for societal development.","PeriodicalId":37473,"journal":{"name":"Malaysian Online Journal of Educational Management","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42480009","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2019-03-28DOI: 10.22452/mojem/vol7no2.2
Joseph M. Velarde, M. F. A. Ghani
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