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The Faculty of Educational Studies
was established on 15 January, 1975 and was initially referred to
as the Faculty of Educational Services in line with its functions
at the time. The faculty offered courses to studies pursuing the
Diploma in Science with Education and the Bachelor of Science with
Education programmes which were offered by the Faculty of Science
and the Environment. Besides these courses, the faculty also offered
elective and general courses which were taken by students from various
faculties in Universiti Pertanian Malaysia at that time.
From 1976, FPP offered
its own programmes, beginning with the Bachelor of Education (Agricultural
Science) and Bachelor of Education (Home Science) programmes. In
the early 1980s, Bachelor of Education programmes in Guidance and
Counselling; the Teaching of Bahasa Malaysia as the First Language;
the Teaching of English as a Second Language; and Physical Education
were offered.
In the early years of its establishment,
the faculty consisted of three departments: The Education Department,
the Social Science Department, and the Language Department. In 1989,
a structural reorganisation saw two of the three departments form
their own faculties. The Social Science Department merged with the
Human Resource Department from the Faculty of Agriculture to form
the Faculty of Human Ecology while the Language Department formed
the Faculty of Modern Languages and Communication with the Communication
Department from the Centre for Extension and Continuing Education.
In 1996, with the inclusion
of the Department of Extension Education, FPP consisted of two departments
which were the Department of Education and the Department of Extension
Education. In 1997, the Department of Extension Education was renamed
the Department of Professional Development and Continuing Education.
In 2002, FPP once again underwent
a structural reorganisation. The Department of Education was reorganised
into four new departments, which were the Department of Foundations
of Education; the Department of Language and Humanities Education;
the Department of Human Movement and Behavioural Studies; the Department
of Science and Technical Education.
In 2004, the Department of Human
Movement and Behavioural Studies was split into two departments:
the Department of Counsellor Education and Counselling Psychology.
The faculty serves to produce
teachers who can teach at the secondary school level as well as
professionals who are responsible for human resource development.
At present, FPP offers Bachelor of Education degrees in Agricultural
Science, Home Science, Physical Education, the Teaching of Bahasa
Malaysia as the First Language, the Teaching of English as a Second
Language, Guidance and Counselling as well as Information Technology.
Besides the Bachelor of Education
degree, the faculty also offers a Bachelor of Science in Human Resource
Development degree that is structured to prepare training and human
resource development officers to serve government, private and non
government agencies. The faculty also offers the Diploma in Youth
in Development Work in order to produce graduates who will work
with youth. This programme was established in 1999 and is offered
via distance education and takes a period of two years. It serves
as a feeder programme for the B.S. Human Resource Development programme.
Graduates from this Diploma
will have bright career prospects in organisational and community
work as Assistant Youth and Sports Officers, Youth and Sports Officers,
Assistant Social Development Officers, Assistant Training Officers,
Assistant Counselling Officers, Assistant Community Development
Officers, and Assistant Social Welfare Officers. |