Exploring Academic Leadership in Teaching and Learning: A Study on Academic Staff from Felda Generation at Malaysian Polytechnics (abstract only)  

Oleh:

Hanipah ; Taib, Mohd ; Fadzil, Mohd ; Anidah ; Najmuddin, Syed ; Kalthom ; Shamsuri ; Zahir, Mohammad

Jenis: Article from Proceeding
Dalam koleksi: The International Symposium on Social Sciences (TISSS) and Hong Kong International Conference on Education, Psychology and Society (HKICEPS) at Hongkong, December 2013, page 196-198.
Topik: academic leadership; teaching and learning; reflective practice; pedagogical; teaching professionalism
Fulltext: Hong Kong-Conference 26.pdf (399.34KB)

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Background: Malaysian Polytechnics has been committed to transform into human capital development through MOHE Strategic Plan from 2007 – 2020. Academic leadership in technical based is importance to enhance and address their pedagogical issues in teaching and learning. Statement of the problem: During the Second Phase (2011-2015) The entire Malaysian Polytechnics have to full fill the National Agenda where all academic staff from technical based, need to boost and reinforce their pedagogical strategies and technological instrument in order to convey Malaysian Polytechnics in to a regional and global exceptional institution in future. Aim of the study: The aim of this study are to examine the planning, implementation, the technical content knowledge, learning ability, the usage of the instrumentation to boost learning, the reflective practice among academic staff, attitude toward technical teaching and learning and their leadership and professionalism behavior. Methods: This study performed two qualitative and quantitative studies. First, at the beginning, there are 120 academic staff from Federal Land Development Authority (FELDA) generation volunteer in this study and 30 Polytechnics from entire country in Malaysia participated in nationwide surveys. The objective of the survey is to ponder the fenomena and the categories of the problem in teaching and learning. Second, for the qualitative, this study used in-depth interview and participatory dialogue in group interview. The 21 informants with academic leader strengthen data qualitative to be triangulated. Nine (9) categories and 35 items on teaching and learning from pilot study were used and through Rasch Model the 197 reliability value was 0.96. Finding: Data shows that six (6) categories have been the best practices in teaching and learning among academic staff in Malaysian Polytechnics. The implementation of curriculum design, the delivery of subject matter content, involvement among students, the attitude of academic staff. There are some barriers to effective Malaysian Polytechnics academic staff in teaching and learning, data shows that (3) categories have been under effective and need more training to address matters such as planning for teaching and learning in outcome based education (OBE), to be a practitioner on reflective practice and doing continue quality improvement (CQI) after teaching and learning and Malaysian Polytechnics staff need to have knowledge about professionalism in teaching and learning and how to be a leader in technical field. Discussion: Effective academic leadership in teaching and learning in Malaysian Polytechnic is in hampered by centralization on curriculum design, conservativeness on teaching and learning, lack of self knowledge about meritocracy in career path and instability of management. Conclusions: This study proposed in service training, enhance faculty members to plan some OBE skills, evaluate the reflective practices and CQI, last, self-involvement in participatory decision making within department and also develop a networking with technical based universities.

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