Indo-Malaysian Initiatives of Training of Teachers on School Psychology Services

Panchalan, RAMALINGAM¹, Thankaveloo, GANESAN^2
1Pondicherry University, 17, 14th Street, Krishna Nagar, Puducherry, 605 008, India
²Malaysian School Psychology Association, LEVEL 3, MENARA MANICKAVASAGAM, NO 1, JALAN RAHMAT, KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA, 50350

 

Submission type

Oral only

Scheduled

Room 119, 11-07-2019, 09:00 - 10:30

Keywords

school culture, school intern and school extern criteria, culture comparison

Summary

Primarily the paper outlines two different schools in Indian and Malaysian cultures and compare them on the base of criteria, which are relevant for the implementation of school psychology services. The researchers tried out a training model to train the school teachers in India and Malaysia. Those are, for instance, the form of government, population, urban versus rural character, climate, religion, philosophy, the aim of education in general including its pedagogical values as well as the implementation of compulsory education. There were 260 teachers participated in the study while attending the training programmes conducted by the researchers in India and Malaysia. The outcome of the study in a critical perspective on each school culture one can learn from each other to collaborate with an estimation in what way school psychology services can be influenced by these different cultures. Keeping in view of the cultural ethos a training method has been evolved to train the teachers to cater to the needs of the children. The impact of the training programmes proved the essential need of such training to the teachers in Malaysia as well as in India.

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