Sejarah Perkembangan Latihan Perguruan di Malaysia: Satu Tinjauan

Abstract

The Second World War has either created or accelerated political, economic, sosial and educational changes, particularly in the newly independent developing countries of which our country Malaysia is one. These new changes have brought about many challenges which affect educational policy, aims, organisation and curricula. The function of school has been seen as changing and this inevitably has affected the education and training of teachers. In Malaysia, education is seen as an instrument of national integration and development; and teacher education is perhaps the most important part of this, because teachers are the agents responsible for translating educational policies into reality.

This paper deals with the development of teacher education from the early days of the British colonial administration to the present post independence era. It attempts firstly to describe briefly the teacher education during the pre-independence period of time and attempts made after the World War II and post-independence period in the development of teacher education in this country, secondly to highlight some aspects of the current trends and challenges in the development of teacher education in our country, Malaysia.