Purpose: The objective of this study is to investigate the influence of anime on the prevalence o... more Purpose: The objective of this study is to investigate the influence of anime on the prevalence of Japanese popular culture among Art and Design students. Design/Methodology/Approach: This study employed a questionnaire-based quantitative survey of 186 college students enrolled in arts and design programmes at three higher education institutions. Five Likert-scale questionnaires were utilised to collect the data, which was subsequently analysed using SPSS (Statistical Package for the Social Sciences). Findings: The majority of respondents had rather limited time to watch anime. This is due to the time constraints for completing their tasks and projects. That was proven by the low average viewing rate of anime among respondents. The findings showed only 39 respondents watched anime for more than 6 hours and above, while the majority of 147 others, or 79%, watched anime for 5 hours and below in a week. Nevertheless, the influence of Japanese popular culture still has a significant imp...
The predominance of the use of the English language on social media entails its potential usefuln... more The predominance of the use of the English language on social media entails its potential usefulness in regard to ESL learning. Amongst all social media platforms, none can boast the ubiquity of TikTok. This application has been, and continues to be, one of the largest and most influential social media platforms, as well as a massive success across a range of fields with the most active users in the world. In the field of education, it has the potential to enhance educational pedagogies. Although TikTok has various features aligned to language learning, TikTok’s application within the education field is still largely unexplored. This scoping review aims to identify the key features of TikTok that can be used to enhance pedagogical strategies in sustaining the teaching of language skills in ESL classrooms. Although studies have been conducted on this subject, they have often lacked clarity and also lacked the possibility of synthesis in regard to the contribution of this platform to ...
Social problems among adolescents have been giving a huge impact on the formation of people in a ... more Social problems among adolescents have been giving a huge impact on the formation of people in a community who live in the world of modern technology. Social problems are oftenly associated with fast-paced mass media that that come with information technology and sophistication. Anime is the entertainment brought by the electronic mass media for the children, youth and adults who have dominated the world of animation today. The difference in the characters, morals and cultures are believe to be a major for moral declination among teenagers. The elements of violence, sex, fantasy and superstition can be damage teenagers mind. A lot of anime studies show adversely and positive effects to the teenagers. Statistics from the Department of Statistics show the number of juvenile offenders in 2016 recorded a decline of 10.3% from 5,096 cases in 2014 to 4,569 cases in 2015. However, the number is not enough to release anxiety among the public on this issue. A pilot study was conducted on 85 ...
The old mosques in Malacca are the historical monuments or historical remains that are highly val... more The old mosques in Malacca are the historical monuments or historical remains that are highly valuable to the development and Islamic civilization in Malaysia. The construction of the old mosques in Malacca around the 18th century represents the greatness of Islam in the state. In fact according to historical records, Malacca was once the most prominent center for dissemination of Islam in Southeast Asia that was formerly known as the ’Nusantara’. These old mosques had left behind unique aesthetics values, the result of cultural mixing occurred more than 300 years ago. Descriptive study was carried out in order to appreciate the aesthetics found in these old mosques. The study will focus on three of the oldest mosques in Malacca namely Tengkera Mosque, Kampung Hulu Mosque and Kampung Keling Mosque. Aesthetics appreciation is more towards the architecture, the art of carving/engraving and calligraphy art found in the three mosques.
Service-Learning or the learning based on service is defined as a method of teaching and learning... more Service-Learning or the learning based on service is defined as a method of teaching and learning strategy which optimized experiences in serving the community. Although this practice of teaching and learning has given positive impacts; practitioners and researchers alike are still uneven in their consent regarding the best way to define and characterize the concept of Service-Learning. The main focus of this article is to analyze the key elements in the definition about Service Learning. This article will discuss and elaborate on the concept of Service Learning into four main parts, namely; a general explanation of Service-Learning, different kinds of participation in Service-Learning, the approaches in Service-Learning and the impacts of Service-Learning. In confronting the challenges of the 21st century learning strategy, the implementation of Service- Learning as a learning process based on experiences is timely because it provides students with a strong knowledge for the conten...
The traditional craft experts have creatively utilising the elements of environment to create cra... more The traditional craft experts have creatively utilising the elements of environment to create craft masterpieces. They have meticulously studying and choosing each of the environmental elements to make sure that it goes hand in hand with a particular handicraft they are trying to make. This effort helped to obtain a perfect craft designs. Natural objects from environment are chosen to create motives that serve as the main elements in the variations of decoration. It resulted as handicraft masterpieces that possess the aesthetic values. One thing that we have to realize is the elements from natural environment are the most important elements in making the traditional Malay handicraft. Malay traditional crafted goods are not alien to Malaysians. In Malay society, various kinds of crafted goods have been made by their ancestors such as weave, batik (wax printed patterned cloth), pottery or ceramic, sculpture or woodcarving, tekat or embroidery and songket (a kind of embroidery of gold ...
2 Abstract: Labu Sayong or also known as labu ayor or labu picit is one of Malay pottery heritage... more 2 Abstract: Labu Sayong or also known as labu ayor or labu picit is one of Malay pottery heritages that originated from the state of Perak Darul Ridzuan. This hand-crafted work has a specialty of its own. The water stored inside the clay pitcher is colder than regular water and it is believed to refresh the body when consumed. Labu Sayong is an adaptation of a gourd and a symbol of Malay intellectuals in the past. It is produced through several traditional process in stages and takes some time to complete. Furthermore, the imprint motifs decoration technique on the surface of the clay pitcher has failed to give a variation to its design pattern. This might be the reason why new generation is less interested to own Labu Sayong, thus it is in the brink of its own extinction. To overcome the problem, Labu Sayong entrepreneurs have switched to a new innovation in the manufacturing process. Now, Labu Sayong is produced using moulds and called labu acu. This innovation can produce a more ...
Purpose: The objective of this study is to investigate the influence of anime on the prevalence o... more Purpose: The objective of this study is to investigate the influence of anime on the prevalence of Japanese popular culture among Art and Design students. Design/Methodology/Approach: This study employed a questionnaire-based quantitative survey of 186 college students enrolled in arts and design programmes at three higher education institutions. Five Likert-scale questionnaires were utilised to collect the data, which was subsequently analysed using SPSS (Statistical Package for the Social Sciences). Findings: The majority of respondents had rather limited time to watch anime. This is due to the time constraints for completing their tasks and projects. That was proven by the low average viewing rate of anime among respondents. The findings showed only 39 respondents watched anime for more than 6 hours and above, while the majority of 147 others, or 79%, watched anime for 5 hours and below in a week. Nevertheless, the influence of Japanese popular culture still has a significant imp...
The predominance of the use of the English language on social media entails its potential usefuln... more The predominance of the use of the English language on social media entails its potential usefulness in regard to ESL learning. Amongst all social media platforms, none can boast the ubiquity of TikTok. This application has been, and continues to be, one of the largest and most influential social media platforms, as well as a massive success across a range of fields with the most active users in the world. In the field of education, it has the potential to enhance educational pedagogies. Although TikTok has various features aligned to language learning, TikTok’s application within the education field is still largely unexplored. This scoping review aims to identify the key features of TikTok that can be used to enhance pedagogical strategies in sustaining the teaching of language skills in ESL classrooms. Although studies have been conducted on this subject, they have often lacked clarity and also lacked the possibility of synthesis in regard to the contribution of this platform to ...
Social problems among adolescents have been giving a huge impact on the formation of people in a ... more Social problems among adolescents have been giving a huge impact on the formation of people in a community who live in the world of modern technology. Social problems are oftenly associated with fast-paced mass media that that come with information technology and sophistication. Anime is the entertainment brought by the electronic mass media for the children, youth and adults who have dominated the world of animation today. The difference in the characters, morals and cultures are believe to be a major for moral declination among teenagers. The elements of violence, sex, fantasy and superstition can be damage teenagers mind. A lot of anime studies show adversely and positive effects to the teenagers. Statistics from the Department of Statistics show the number of juvenile offenders in 2016 recorded a decline of 10.3% from 5,096 cases in 2014 to 4,569 cases in 2015. However, the number is not enough to release anxiety among the public on this issue. A pilot study was conducted on 85 ...
The old mosques in Malacca are the historical monuments or historical remains that are highly val... more The old mosques in Malacca are the historical monuments or historical remains that are highly valuable to the development and Islamic civilization in Malaysia. The construction of the old mosques in Malacca around the 18th century represents the greatness of Islam in the state. In fact according to historical records, Malacca was once the most prominent center for dissemination of Islam in Southeast Asia that was formerly known as the ’Nusantara’. These old mosques had left behind unique aesthetics values, the result of cultural mixing occurred more than 300 years ago. Descriptive study was carried out in order to appreciate the aesthetics found in these old mosques. The study will focus on three of the oldest mosques in Malacca namely Tengkera Mosque, Kampung Hulu Mosque and Kampung Keling Mosque. Aesthetics appreciation is more towards the architecture, the art of carving/engraving and calligraphy art found in the three mosques.
Service-Learning or the learning based on service is defined as a method of teaching and learning... more Service-Learning or the learning based on service is defined as a method of teaching and learning strategy which optimized experiences in serving the community. Although this practice of teaching and learning has given positive impacts; practitioners and researchers alike are still uneven in their consent regarding the best way to define and characterize the concept of Service-Learning. The main focus of this article is to analyze the key elements in the definition about Service Learning. This article will discuss and elaborate on the concept of Service Learning into four main parts, namely; a general explanation of Service-Learning, different kinds of participation in Service-Learning, the approaches in Service-Learning and the impacts of Service-Learning. In confronting the challenges of the 21st century learning strategy, the implementation of Service- Learning as a learning process based on experiences is timely because it provides students with a strong knowledge for the conten...
The traditional craft experts have creatively utilising the elements of environment to create cra... more The traditional craft experts have creatively utilising the elements of environment to create craft masterpieces. They have meticulously studying and choosing each of the environmental elements to make sure that it goes hand in hand with a particular handicraft they are trying to make. This effort helped to obtain a perfect craft designs. Natural objects from environment are chosen to create motives that serve as the main elements in the variations of decoration. It resulted as handicraft masterpieces that possess the aesthetic values. One thing that we have to realize is the elements from natural environment are the most important elements in making the traditional Malay handicraft. Malay traditional crafted goods are not alien to Malaysians. In Malay society, various kinds of crafted goods have been made by their ancestors such as weave, batik (wax printed patterned cloth), pottery or ceramic, sculpture or woodcarving, tekat or embroidery and songket (a kind of embroidery of gold ...
2 Abstract: Labu Sayong or also known as labu ayor or labu picit is one of Malay pottery heritage... more 2 Abstract: Labu Sayong or also known as labu ayor or labu picit is one of Malay pottery heritages that originated from the state of Perak Darul Ridzuan. This hand-crafted work has a specialty of its own. The water stored inside the clay pitcher is colder than regular water and it is believed to refresh the body when consumed. Labu Sayong is an adaptation of a gourd and a symbol of Malay intellectuals in the past. It is produced through several traditional process in stages and takes some time to complete. Furthermore, the imprint motifs decoration technique on the surface of the clay pitcher has failed to give a variation to its design pattern. This might be the reason why new generation is less interested to own Labu Sayong, thus it is in the brink of its own extinction. To overcome the problem, Labu Sayong entrepreneurs have switched to a new innovation in the manufacturing process. Now, Labu Sayong is produced using moulds and called labu acu. This innovation can produce a more ...
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