Papers by Nasruddin Yunos
MALIM: Jurnal Pengajian Umum …, 2007
Rooted from the Greece and Roman scholastic discourses, the idea of progress became a dominant wo... more Rooted from the Greece and Roman scholastic discourses, the idea of progress became a dominant worldview, especially after the Renaissance. Darwin's theory of evolution is the symbol of maturity of the idea of progress. On the positive side, the evolution theory not only influenced on the scientific development but the humanities as well. After the Renaissance, the idea of progress becomes more relevant as the idea of modernity took place. Later on, the root for the idea of progress became the main idea for modernity. Modernity, with its own characteristic, is the material basis for modernization and modernism is the ideological framework of modernization.
The development of creative and innovative human capital is one of the main aspects highlighted i... more The development of creative and innovative human capital is one of the main aspects highlighted in the 9th Malaysian Plan. At one time, creativity is believed to be an inborn quality, inherited by the privileged few. However, lately psychologists believed that everybody has the potential to be creative. In order to stimulate creativity, continued and systematic effort has to be carried out. Creativity can be nurtured and enhanced through education. This paper will discuss the concept of creativity, the implementation of creativity in the Malaysian educational systems and various approaches that can be applied by teachers to enhance creativity among school students
Kemahiran kepimpinan merupakan satu elemen kemahiran insaniah yang penting. Para graduan yang lah... more Kemahiran kepimpinan merupakan satu elemen kemahiran insaniah yang penting. Para graduan yang lahir dari menara gading adalah merupakan aset dan harta negara yang amat bernilai tinggi dan mereka bakal mewarisi tampok pemerintahan negara pada satu masa nanti.Kertas kerja ini bertujuan membuat kajian terhadap prinsip-prinsip kepimpinan yang digariskan oleh Islam dalam melahirkan manusia yang hebatdari sudut kepimpinan. Bagi memenuhi dan mencapai matlamat ini, kajian akan dibuat berasaskan tinjauan literatur dan rujukan kepada dalil-dalil yang terdapat dalam al-Quran dan as-Sunnah serta pendapat para ilmuwan Islam yang muktabar khususnya yang berkaitan dengan prinsip-prinsip kepimpinan Islam. Pada akhir kajian ini, diharapkan dapat dirumuskan prinsip kepimpinan berdasarkan pendangan ajaran Islam yang sebenar.
International Journal of Academic Research in Business and Social Sciences
International Review of Business …, 2010
Malaysia economy has shifted from lower-income agriculture to upper-middle income and increasingl... more Malaysia economy has shifted from lower-income agriculture to upper-middle income and increasingly industrial based. This development results the changing of economic pattern, sectoral of employment and demographic pattern. By 1990s Malaysia became an exporter of manufactured ...
Asian Social Science, 2014
One of the key issues of the country is poor command of certain skills among university graduates... more One of the key issues of the country is poor command of certain skills among university graduates from Public Higher Education Institute (PHEI). This matter has increased the rate of unemployment among graduates. This is because the industry as one of the key sectors of the economy generators needs human capital that masters various skills. The industry is facing global competition that requires them to participate and compete. Hence, to ensure that their position remains strong and relevant, human capital that masters skills such as communication skills, decision making, teamwork and others are urgently needed. Hence the emphasis on the aspects of these skills should be incorporated in the national education system. This article discusses the direction of generic skills courses at the National University of Malaysia in fulfilling the needs of Malaysian qualifications framework. This study is performed through analysis methodology on relevant documents in the matter. The study found that the National University of Malaysia has already implemented adoption of generic skills in courses offered, in fulfilling Malaysian qualifications framework. This will produce a student that is equipped with generic skills and further meets the needs of the job market.
The belief of Afterlife is one of the fundamental of Islamic belief system. The wellbeing in this... more The belief of Afterlife is one of the fundamental of Islamic belief system. The wellbeing in this world will reflect our future in the Hereafter. Knowing the level of Muslim's perception on the Afterlife could illustrate that the Malaysian Muslims are still upholding the Islamic teachings and traditions. This paper reports on the findings of a study on Malaysian's Muslims perception towards the metaphysical dimension of the Islamic belief system, specifically the Afterlife. 640 respondents, males and females (aged 18 to 55 years old) participated in the study. They were randomly selected from all over Malaysia and were given a booklet of questionnaire, containing statements about the Islamic belief system including the belief in the Afterlife. Each statement was provided with five choices in the form of Likert type scale ranging from 1 to 5. The booklets of questionnaire were collected and the responses were analysed using Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) to obtain the means responses and also the percentages of the responses. The means differences were tested using the t-test also one-way ANOVA. The study discovered that Malaysian 99.4% of the respondents believed the afterlife. Only 0.6% of the respondents either not sure or did not believe the afterlife.
... adalah berbeza dengan intelektual zaman Pencerahan yang secara terang-terangan menolak agama,... more ... adalah berbeza dengan intelektual zaman Pencerahan yang secara terang-terangan menolak agama, antaranya adalah Voltaire. ... Falsafah pemikiran moden tidak sekadar berteori tentang kebenaran ilmu tetapi secara tidak langsung ia juga telah ... sejarah perkembangan sains. ...
Malaysia economy has shifted from lower-income agriculture to uppermiddle income and increasingly... more Malaysia economy has shifted from lower-income agriculture to uppermiddle income and increasingly industrial based. These development have affected families in many ways and the most substantial change is the large extended family has become nuclear family unit. At present there are about 70% of mothers with children below 12 years of age working full-time in Malaysia. As Malay and Chinese are the major ethnics in Malaysia, the present research attempted to investigate the effects of Malay and Chinese mothers' work conditions on parenting styles, children behavior and school achievement. Following survey method, this study deployed 400 mothers (200 = Malay, 200 = Chinese) who work full-time and 400 primary school children as sample of study. Data of this study are analyzed using path model analysis. Results of this study indicate that mothers work conditions has modest effects on parenting styles, children behavior and school achievement. The importance of social support for lower-income families is discussed.
International Review of Business …, 2009
Malaysia economy has shifted from lower-income agriculture to upper-middle income and increasingl... more Malaysia economy has shifted from lower-income agriculture to upper-middle income and increasingly industrial based. These development have affected families in many ways and the most substantial change is the large extended family has become nuclear family unit. At present there are ...
This study reports the findings of a research involving 400 respondents from all over the country... more This study reports the findings of a research involving 400 respondents from all over the country to investigate the effect of industrialisation, modernisation and urbanisation to social cohesion of the Muslim society in Malaysia. The respondents were drawn from all segments of the society, male and female from the age of 16 to 60 years old. Every respondent was given a booklet of questionnaire with statements to be responded. Each statement was provided with five choices of responses ranging from 1. Strongly agree, 2. Agree, 3. Not sure, 4. Disagree, and 5. Strongly disagree. The questions were related to social issues including the issues of social cohesion such as the relations with the neighbours. The relationship with neighbour is an indicator of the social cohesion. The respondent was given 30 minutes to respond to the questionnaire, and the booklets were collected to be analysed using the SPSS. The findings show that social cohesion within the contemporary society changes with urbanisation since the finding show that social cohesion stronger in villages where modernisation and urbanisation effect is not strong compared to those who live in towns and big cities. The finding has also shown that there was a significant difference between the rural social cohesion and the urban social cohesion.
This study was conducted to see the perception of the Malaysian on the theory of evolution with s... more This study was conducted to see the perception of the Malaysian on the theory of evolution with special focus on the origin of man from ape. 640 respondents, males and females from all over the country of Malaysia were obtained randomly. The respondents come from various ethnic and religious backgrounds from the age of 20 to 50. The study used the questionnaire method whereby the respondents were given a booklet containing statements on the relation between science and religion including a statement related to the theory of evolution that man originally came from ape. The statements were provided with five responses to be chosen by the respondents. The booklets of questionnaire were collected to be analysed by using the SPSS to obtain the mean response, the mean response according to the ethnic, religious and academic background. T-test were also conducted if the means responses were significantly different. The findings show that the 77% of the Muslim respondents rejected the theory of evolution that men come from apes, 22% of the Christian, 23% of the Buddhists and 36% of the Hindu respondents rejected this theory also. The mean difference between the response of the Muslim respondents significantly different from the mean responses all the other religious groups. 1. Theory Evolution: The Perception Revisited The pertinent issue which lingers in the mind of the people with regard to the origin of human being probably is the issues where does man came from. The three main religions, Islam, Christianity and Judaism have definite answer that human being was created from Adam who was perfectly human, created out of clay (Kvam, et.al., 1999) but Charles Darwin, the 17 th century British biologist, in the name of science challenged the idea and promoted that living things including human being achieved physical perfection through the process of evolution, and that human being came from the ape (Burkhardt, et.al.,2010). There is no formal teaching of the origin of the human being from ape in the Malaysian schools but the teaching of the origin of species, excluding the origin of man is taught in biology subject (Numbers, 2006). Therefore, the theory that man came from the ape subtly crept into the mind of the people through science education. The people, through the reading of articles from various sources received the idea than man came from ape. Do they accept the theory that human being came from ape? The level of support to the theory of evolution among the people in the world has been subjected to studies by Matthews (2014) and Matsumura (1998). Matsumura (1998) studied the level of support for evolution in the western world especially the United States, in Europe and who said that 49% of the Catholic in America accept the theory of Evolution, while the rest of the Christian denominations support on the theory of evolution are less than 10% except the South Baptist Convention whose support on the theory of evolution is 12.6%. The level of support for the theory among the Catholic is not surprising because the late pope John Paul II lent his support for the theory in a in a message he gave to the Pontifical Academy of Science in 1996, in which he said new knowledge led to the recognition of the theory of evolution (Kurtz, 2001).
The belief of Afterlife is one of the fundamental of Islamic belief system. The wellbeing in this... more The belief of Afterlife is one of the fundamental of Islamic belief system. The wellbeing in this world will reflect our future in the Hereafter. Knowing the level of Muslim's perception on the Afterlife could illustrate that the Malaysian Muslims are still upholding the Islamic teachings and traditions. This paper reports on the findings of a study on Malaysian's Muslims perception towards the metaphysical dimension of the Islamic belief system, specifically the Afterlife. 640 respondents, males and females (aged 18 to 55 years old) participated in the study. They were randomly selected from all over Malaysia and were given a booklet of questionnaire, containing statements about the Islamic belief system including the belief in the Afterlife. Each statement was provided with five choices in the form of Likert type scale ranging from 1 to 5. The booklets of questionnaire were collected and the responses were analysed using Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) to obtain the means responses and also the percentages of the responses. The means differences were tested using the t-test also one-way ANOVA. The study discovered that Malaysian 99.4% of the respondents believed the afterlife. Only 0.6% of the respondents either not sure or did not believe the afterlife.
The paper reports a study which was conducted among 644 respondents from the age of 20 to the age... more The paper reports a study which was conducted among 644 respondents from the age of 20 to the age of 55 in Malaysia. The respondents, male and female were obtained randomly throughout the country, from different ethnic and religious backgrounds. The respondents were given booklet of questionnaire containing statements about the relation between the Quran and science. The statements were provided with responses in the form of Likert scale ranging from 1. (Strongly disagree), 2. (Disagree), 3. (Not sure), 4. (Agree), and 5. (Strongly agree). The data was analysed to obtain the mean, percentages, and the difference of means were tested using the t-test and one-Way ANOVA. The results of the study show that 66.9% of the respondents accepted the statement that the Quran is compatible with modern science. 12.6% rejected the statement and 20.5% was not sure. There were difference of means of the responses of the respondents based on their religion and the difference of mean was significant.
This paper reports a study on the reaction of the Muslim in Malaysia toward provocative action on... more This paper reports a study on the reaction of the Muslim in Malaysia toward provocative action on Prophet Muhammad. 700 respondent males and females, who were obtained randomly throughout Malaysia participated in the study which aimed at identifying the Muslim reactions toward provocative actions against Prophet Muhammad. The provocative actions include defaming, vilifying and insulting the Prophet. The respondents were given booklets of questionnaire containing statements which were provided with the Likert type scales, ranging from 1. Strongly agree, 2. Agree, 3. Not sure, 4. Disagree, and 5. Strongly disagree. The respondents were asked to response to the questionnaire and after 30 minutes, the booklet was collected. The data which was obtained was analysed using the SPSS to find the percentage, the means and the correlation. The findings show that very high percentage of the respondents were offended and prepared to fight if the Prophet is vilified and insulted. The finding also shows that the Muslim seems to be more easily agitated when Prophet is vilified compared to practicing the teaching of Prophet. The finding shows that 95.3% of the respondents were angry when Prophet is insulted while the respondents who practiced the teaching of the Prophet Muhammad was 85.7%.
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