Teroka kuih-muih tradisional Melayu melalui buku cerita di kalangan kanak-kanak prasekolah
Discovery of Traditional Malay Kuih in Storybooks for Preschoolers
Presentation Irma Iryanti Juri, Suriati Abdolah
Kanak-kanak kini lebih terdedah kepada pencuci mulut yang mudah didapati di cafe-cafe, kedai roti-kedai roti dan juga pasaraya. Mereka bukan sahaja dapat mengenali pencuci mulut seperti kek dan kek cawan, donat, jelli, brownies dan macaroons, kami pasti mereka juga boleh berkongsi tentang rasa pencuci mulut tersebut. Namun, jika dihidangkan dengan sedulang kuih-muih, kanak-kanak prasekolah mungkin tidak dapat menamakan kuih-muih yang ada walaupun mereka mungkin boleh berkongsi yang mereka telah pun mencuba dan/atau suka makan “kuih bulat dan hijau” atau “kuih yang ada dua warna, hijau dan putih”.
Children today are more exposed to desserts that they can easily get from cafes, bakeries and even supermarkets. They are not only able to identify desserts such as cakes and cupcakes, doughnuts, jellies, brownies and macaroons to name a few. Books that feature Malay kuih give preschool children the opportunity to discover these traditional delicacies. Children will be able to know and identify these traditional foods as they get opportunities to explore not only the physical characteristics, but also the process of making traditional kuih.
Irma Iryanti Juri (Singapore)
Iryanti has been in the Early Childhood profession since 1995. Having spent long hours at the Centre with the children daily, she was determined to engage and involve the parents in their child’s learning journey. Project:READ! was one such initiative, which was a culmination of several programmes with the aim of heightening parental involvement and the children’s experiential learning in language usage and literacy development.She is now a lead lecturer at the National Institute of Early Childhood Development (NIEC).
Suriati Abdolah (Singapore)
An adjunct lecturer, Suriati's passion for the education of young children, has led her to leave public school teaching to be involved in the early childhood sector. In the last two decades, her work has enabled her to design programmes for infants, develop research studies on preschool children and lecture trainee preschool teachers as well as train pre- and in-service preschool teachers. She continues to advocate for children in the community as one of the founders of MAPP (MENDAKI Alliance for Preschool Professionals) and her current work focuses on literacy building for the young especially from low-income families.
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