One Malaysia Concept

AS an early childhood educator, I strongly believe that whatever you want the child to be and we are able to model them and influence them. The early childhood education plays the significant roles in young children early years learning. We could influence young children’s thinking and mindset easily. Young children as a piece of “plain paper”, it depends on the teachers’ creativity to design on it. 

Through many years working with young children, I am able to implement very successful “One Malaysia concept” towards the children. We are able to promote and practice it easily in their learning environment. How do we reinforce the unity living and learning environment during their early years? We need to always enhance that we are Malaysian. Although we have different cultures such as  living habit, eating habit, wearing style, festivals celebration, religions, believes and races as well. We stay together in the same place and this unique place is called Malaysia.

As Malaysia early childhood educator, I understand that what would our children needs, learning abilities and learning interest as well. The program is not made in local and it may not relevance to our children and it hardly makes sense of their learning. I strongly disagree to import the other countries early childhood education program to our children. These education programs are based on their children's needs and not our children's needs. 

I have been struggling for more than two decades to develop the early children program which is based on our local needs. I put in a lot of moral values to develop the harmony, peaceful, respectful, thoughtful, caring and sharing learning environment. I could create a lot of learning activities to enhance these values through role-play activities to identify each other races' eating habit, fashion show to recognize each races wearing styles, moral stories telling which created by us to enhance moral values, festivals cerebration together and all these learning activities will really promote “One Malaysia” concept.

Such as Vimesshen Nair mentions in the Malay Mail article that the real life example is what I would like to share with every young Malaysian. I urge all Malaysians to come under the umbrella set by our Prime Minister, called 1Malaysia. Let's join our very colourful hands, ideas, thoughts, and make it happen as a true one nation.

We can fight. We can scream. We can argue. We can shout at each other. We must agree to disagree, but live as one. We must adopt a child's mindset in becoming one nation. Children may fight today, yet remain 
friends tomorrow.

Why not we, Malaysian, do the same? Whether you are Malay, Chinese, Indian, Muslim, Hindu, Buddhist or
Christian, let's all play, pray, laugh and stay together. 1Malaysia is not a new idea. It is an age-old way of life, given a new twist. Together, let's get entangled in our thoughts and deeds, and make our beloved country a truly ONE MALAYSIA!

I have been collected some of the children's drawing to share with everyone about “One Malaysia” concept by the young children. I hope that these pictures will inspire everyone to appreciate our “One Malaysia” ideas and concepts. As young children present their thought in their pictures that we learn together, play together, eat together, sing together, work together, celebrate together, share to each other, and all these concepts are in their small world. 

All these pictures are drawn by the young children from age 4 to 6 years old. These drawing are presented by “ONE MALAYSIA” young children from “EDUWIS”.

from the founder of Eduwis
Amanda Tan

Young Children Graphic Art Presentation

4 years old children's drawing

5 years old children's drawing

  

6 years old children's drawing