Emergent Curriculum Practice in Malaysian Kindergarten

The development of children's learning is stimulated through a learning environment that gives them the opportunity to explore. This article discusses the improvement of children's learning process as it shifts from academic-oriented to emergent form of learning. Improvements also include changes into the use of textbooks and materials as child learning aids. Action research is applied to gain insights that help stimulate the development of children's learning without drastically affecting the learning environment. Naturalistic observation is the main source of data for analyzing. Every observation of children is recorded in the researcher’s observation notes. Children's journal books are also used in analyzing the outcomes of children enhancement before, during and after the improvement of their learning process. The findings are reported with narrative and visual analysis in the analysis table. The findings show that improvements in the learning process of children gave them the opportunity to create and explore their learning more meaningfully in terms of active involvement, social interaction, self-confidence and the ability to voice the ideas and, opinions, all of which showed marked improvements.