Reviews the development of the Malaysian school guidance and counseling movement, the counseling paradigm in application, and the effectiveness of school counseling services, asserting that to ensure the effectiveness of school counseling, preservice school counselor training programs should adopt the scientist- practitioner paradigm and adapt the…

Malaysia's education system has experienced a variety of situations and circumstances since May 1956, when the Razak Education Committee laid the foundation for a national system of education. Discussed in this publication are the history of educational development; educational organization and administration; the structure of education;…

Several features of Beeby's model (1966) of the development of educational systems in developing countries served as the theoretical basis for the Malaysian Teacher Education Project (MTEP). These features include: the qualitative aspects of teaching, a focus on qualitative change, an emphasis on the realistic rate of such change in practice, and…