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Education : History Preschool Education in this country is started since year 1950. By that time, preschool was influenced by the British education system where it was more exclusive and the opportunities just opened to those wealthy families. From year 1950 until 1960, kindergarten in Malaysia was found by the Christian societies as part of their church activities. Almost all of the preschools which are own by individual or private agencies are located at urban and provide early education for those children whose parent are able to afford the educational fees. As a result, only part of the children age flowed within 4-6 years old have this opportunity to attend the classes held by those preschools. Unfortunately there were a lot of children which came from poor families and rural area unable to gain the early education in kindergarten A revolution was occur in year 1969, Asia Foundation had contributed amount of money to the Worker Society of Malaysia to afford the development capital of preschool model institution which more similar to the ˇ°Headstartˇ± project in America. Kampung Muniandy, Kampung Manggis and Kampung Sentosa in Selangor had been chosen and children from many races such as Malay, Chinese and Indian which came from poor families were the main target of this project. A survey had been taken in America indicated that children who attended this project had achieved good performance in academic and attitude if compared with those children who never attended this project before. Based on the report from ˇ°Kajian Keciciran 1973(Ee Ah Meng, 1988)ˇ±, there was positive correlation within children attendance in preschool and performance. Ninety percent of the children who attended the kindergarten are placed in express class when entered the primary school. |