{"id":1044,"date":"2014-03-07T14:48:46","date_gmt":"2014-03-07T14:48:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/icher.org\/blog\/?p=1044"},"modified":"2014-03-07T14:49:37","modified_gmt":"2014-03-07T14:49:37","slug":"homeschooling-based-on-technology-in-malaysia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icher.org\/blog\/?p=1044","title":{"rendered":"HOMESCHOOLING BASED ON TECHNOLOGY IN MALAYSIA"},"content":{"rendered":"

Record: <\/strong>Norlidah Alias, Mohd. Nazri Abdul Rahman, Siraj Saedah, and Ruslina Ibrahim, “A Model of Homeschooling Based on Technology in Malaysia” in The Malaysian Online Journal of Educational Technology<\/em> 1, no. 3 (July 2013): 10-16 [Available Here<\/a>]<\/p>\n

Summary:<\/strong>\u00a0 The authors begin with a helpful overview of recent developments in Malaysian education policy.\u00a0 In 2003 the Free and Compulsory Education Act was passed, which compels children age 6 and over to attend a school but allows parental choice for private or home-based learning.<\/p>\n

Since that time a small but growing “homeschooling” trend has been documented, and research is being conducted on the families choosing this option.\u00a0 This research has found that Malaysian homeschooling families are motivated by religious values and by concerns about the public schools’ academic and social inadequacies.<\/p>\n

They then explain Interpretive Structural Modeling (ISM), the approach they will be using in this article.\u00a0 Basically, ISM allows the researchers to graph out the relationships between things.\u00a0 In this case the authors are using it to uncover how homeschooling families are using technology.<\/p>\n

They began by building a team of experts that included 5 homeschooling parents, a child development specialist, a curriculum expert, and an education policy expert.\u00a0 All 8 of these people brainstormed together to come up with 20 elements that influence learning and teaching at home.\u00a0 These 20 were then reduced to 12 and then rank ordered until a final cut of 7 was reached.\u00a0 They are the following, in order:\u00a0 social websites (like facebook and twitter), online materials (like wikis and blogs), the use of technology for research (like using webquest), mobile learning (distance learning), interactive video games, web portals (that compile and sort data from other sites), and digital stories (using software to create films, animations, etc.).<\/p>\n

After summarizing and mapping these seven domains the authors conclude that homeschoolers are very technologically active.<\/p>\n

Appraisal:<\/strong>\u00a0 This was a very weak article.\u00a0 No discussion was offered for how or why they chose the five homeschoolers they did.\u00a0 Are they typical of Malaysian homeschooling?\u00a0 The discussion furthermore never went beyond generalities.\u00a0 Homeschoolers use the internet.\u00a0 That’s basically what this article says.\u00a0 The one thing I did learn from this article is that the authority on Malaysian homeschooling seems to be John A. Ebinezar, whose 2008 PhD dissertation “The Malaysian Experience in Home Schooling” was heavily relied upon by these authors for the little they had to say about the broader homeschooling situation in Malaysia.\u00a0 Ebinezar’s dissertation is evidently a qualitative study based on five homeschooling families in Malaysia.\u00a0 Were they the same five used by these researchers?<\/p>\n

Milton Gaither, Messiah College, author of Homeschool: An American History<\/a>\"\"<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Disclaimer<\/strong>:\u00a0 The views expressed in reviews are not the official views of ICHER or of its members.\u00a0 For more information about ICHER\u2019s Reviews, please see the \u00ab\u00a0About these Reviews \u00bb Section.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Record: Norlidah Alias, Mohd. Nazri Abdul Rahman, Siraj Saedah, and Ruslina Ibrahim, “A Model of Homeschooling Based on Technology in Malaysia” in The Malaysian Online Journal of Educational Technology 1, no. 3 (July 2013): 10-16 [Available Here] Summary:\u00a0 The authors … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[10,18],"tags":[989,972,973,974,971,976,975,978,977],"class_list":["post-1044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international","category-technology","tag-free-and-compulsory-education-act","tag-interpretive-structural-modeling","tag-ism","tag-john-a-ebinezar","tag-malaysia","tag-mohd-nazri-abdul-rahman","tag-norlidah-alias","tag-ruslina-ibrahim","tag-saedah-siraj"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icher.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icher.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icher.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icher.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icher.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1044"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/icher.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1044\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1183,"href":"https:\/\/icher.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1044\/revisions\/1183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icher.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icher.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icher.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}