Zainun Mustafa

Universiti Pendidikan Sultan Idris (UPSI) | upsi · Faculty of Sciences and Mathematics

Pendidikan Sains secara Islamik merupakan satu inovasi dalam landskap pendidikan kebangsaan oleh pemikir dan cendekiawan Muslim. Berpaksikan konsep Pendidikan Bersepadu yang menunjangi falsafah pendidikan negara, asas akidah tauhid menjadi intipati amalan pendidikan sejak tahun 1980 an lagi merentasi mata pelajaran. Terkini, pendidikan matapelajara...

This study investigates the perspectives of science teachers in Southeast Asia (SEA) regarding future curriculum using a modified World Café method. The research involved 19 science teachers from SEA participating in dialogues and a plenary session. Data were collected during the discussions taken place in groups as well as in the plenary session....

Partnerships between schools and universities are vital for advancing the Sustainable Development Goal for Education (SDG 4) agenda. This chapter explores the case of an informal education project named the Malaysian International Young Inventors Olympiad (MIYIO), which the Regional Centre of Expertise, Penang (RCE Penang), used as an entry point f...

Background and Purpose: The curriculum design underwent chronological pattern adjustment globally; however, the alterations are heavily contextualized. Therefore, this article is aimed to understand how futuristic curriculum design is perceived in South East Asia (SEA). The understanding of how futuristic curriculum design is perceived in the past...

The regional courses for science teachers in Southeast Asia (SEA) offer participants with the inservice knowledge and skills while promoting deliberate discussions about recent issues related to teaching profession and the sharing of best practices in science education. A total of 21 teachers from eight SEA countries were purposefully selected to p...

Teachers’ perceptions of their teaching and learning activities are critical, especially given that the Malaysian preschool curriculum has undergone multiple revisions recently. The purpose of this study was to measure Malaysian teachers’ perceptions on teaching early mathematics. The study aimed to assess teachers’ perception of six constructs, na...

The purpose of this study was to analyse the students' views and the effects of using Augmented Reality (AR) in learning Science. Given that Science education emphasizes the understanding of the physical and the natural world, the science lesson is basically received through systematic observation and experimentation. The introduction of abstract c...

This working paper is step-by-step of SWOT-guided theme development from the qualitative data analysis into framework modified from Vaismoradi, et al., (2016)

Several innovative pedagogical approaches and ideas are also presented in enhancing learning experience via e-learning. In Chapter 2, Zainun Mustafa and colleagues offered their perspectives on using creative pedagogy through e-learning for the purpose of science education. They explain the distinctive components of creative pedagogy that can be in...

Di Malaysia, Perintah Kawalan Pergerakan (PKP) telah dimandatkan berikutan penularan COVID-19. Perintah ini telah menyebabkan rutin dan sesi persekolahan yang formal telah tergendala. Sehubungan dengan itu, dianggarkan hampir 4.9 juta pelajar di Malaysia telah terkesan (Hawati & Jarud, 2020) dan sedang menjalani pembelajaran dengan menggunakan kaed...

Students in the science stream show good cognitive abilities in Science and Mathematics lessons at the lower secondary level. In other words, this group of students possess a relatively better cognitive abilities for logical reasoning and cognitive maturity to excel in the future as professionals in Science-Mathematics related fields. However, ther...

Identifying and addressing the knowledge gap in early numeracy is crucial, given the strong associations between early numeracy skills and later school success. The purpose of this study is to establish current viewpoints and ideas on children’s numeracy development via three forms of representation: manipulative, symbolic, and static. The Children...

This article discusses the findings of a study that measures the level of religiosity of students who participated in a tauhidic science education program for six months. The study aims to gauge the worldview and personality of students after being exposed with science education interdisciplinary with Islamic religious education. This study employs...

Despite the fact that Islam being one of/counts among the major religions of the world, scientific progress in Muslim majority countries seems to be lagging behind the rest of the world. Therefore, there have been calls by Muslim scholars and clerics to bridge the gap between Islam and science, especially for young Muslims, by harmonising science a...

Creative pedagogy has been explored extensively, and previous research suggests that there is a gap between the level and practice of creativity of science teachers, and that it varies by school location. The aim of this study was to determine the levels of creativity, and creativity practice of primary school science teachers, and differences in t...

The definitions serve the purpose of communication and preservation of knowledge in scientific inquiry. However, it is quite often to perceive number sense concept without well-accepted definitions in the field of mathematics education research. Despite the mentioned issue, the current literature on children's number sense provide a glean for intro...

This study seeks to assess the Malaysian parental involvements in young children's numeracy learning. A questionnaire was administered to 327 parents of kindergarten-going children. The data then analysed descriptively using Statistical Package for the Social Sciences version-26. The present survey shows that the parents' knowledge, understanding,...

This article aims to investigate from a bibliometric perspective, the pattern and trends of the pro-environmental behaviour (PEB) related studies in the field of Computer Science over the past 43 years extracted from the SCOPUS database. This is one of the early attempts to explicate and describe the patterns of published articles of PEB in the fie...

Articulated Thought in Simulated Situation

Bioda’i program has been developed to incline the Biology education in upper secondary school to nurture students’ personality and intellectuality. This program is an innovation and initiative of 16 Biology teachers in effort to integrate the content knowledge in Biology subjects with Islamic Worldview in classrooms, targeted to Muslim science stre...

The taxonomy of the Malik Badri's thinking process phase is a guide for cognitive assessment that has been proposed as an alternative to Bloom's Taxonomy. This taxonomy considers the Islamic worldview to be incorporated into the cognitive evaluation of the Muslims’ learning process. This article explored the action-oriented-thinking of a group of s...

ABSTRACT ATSS Dilema-Nutrisi is an instrument to gauge the goal oriented thinking based on the Articulated Thought in Simulated Situation (ATSS) procedure. The instrument is administered in Bahasa Melayu and specifically designed for Muslim youth in Malaysia. The instrument is intended to serve as a guide for a better undersanding of the trends in...

Pembentangan ini bertujuan untuk: Memperkenalkan Program Bioda’i MRSM Isu-isu yang menjurus kepada wujudnya program ini Mengapa Biologi? Cetusan idea Islamization of knowledge (1) Islamization of knowledge (2) Model Ulul Albab Program Bioda’i