This article is in conjunction with World Mental Health Day which falls on Oct 10 every year.
After having attended home-based online classes for months, Alina (not her real name) felt nervous at the thought of returning to school.
This 10-year-old girl, who lived here with her single father, not only had to cope with social anxiety but was also ashamed of the scars on her hands and legs as a result of the frequent beatings she endured from her father who had been under too much stress after he lost his job last year following the enforcement of the Movement Control Order
KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 7 ― After having attended home-based online classes for months, Alina (not her real name) felt nervous at the thought of returning to school. This 10-year-old girl, who lived here with her single father, not only had to cope with social anxiety but was also ashamed of the scars.
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WE are globally interconnected – now more than ever in human history.
News of events taking place halfway across the world reaches our mobile phones faster than we can say “Jack Robinson”!
The Covid-19 pandemic, too, has pushed educational institutions around the world to fully embrace online learning.
These changes require us to produce students with a global perspective and mindset.
Taking cognisance of this and the speed at which globalisation is happening, institutions have increasingly moved towards inculcating 21st century learning in classrooms to allow cross border education to take place and to produce more informed citizens.
Understanding how crucial this is, the Global Citizenship Education (GCED) module has been embedded into the local curriculum.