{"id":1993,"date":"2014-11-04T02:48:49","date_gmt":"2014-11-04T02:48:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/?page_id=1993"},"modified":"2015-04-13T02:56:45","modified_gmt":"2015-04-13T02:56:45","slug":"the-tireless-advocate-of-using-malay-in-science-and-mathematics","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/archive\/tahun-2014\/november-2014\/the-tireless-advocate-of-using-malay-in-science-and-mathematics\/","title":{"rendered":"The Tireless Advocate Of Using Malay In Science And Mathematics"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main \"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">0<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ukm.my%2Fnews%2Farchive%2Ftahun-2014%2Fnovember-2014%2Fthe-tireless-advocate-of-using-malay-in-science-and-mathematics%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/?p=1993&amp;via=https:\/\/twitter.com\/ukmtwit\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-toggle-container\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div class=\"newsitem_tools\">\n<div class=\"newsitem_info\"><span class=\"createdate\">TUESDAY, 04 NOVEMBER 2014 17:40<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"newsitem_text\">\n<div class=\"news_item_article\">\n<p><strong><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"border\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/images\/stories\/Campus2014\/42UKMPROFSHARARIR01.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>By Saiful Bahri Kamaruddin<br \/>\nPix Corporate Communications Centre<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">BANGI, 3 November 2014 &#8211; The use of the Malay language and Islam in science and mathematics can facilitate the understanding of scientific concepts better than in English.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Professor Dr Shahrir Mohamed Zain said many of the principles of mathematics and science were produced by scientists who spoke Arabic.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Prof Shahrir who was granted the title of Emeritus Professor at the 6<sup>th<\/sup> session of the 42<sup>nd<\/sup> Convocation of The National University of Malaysia (UKM) here today said Mathematics and the Islamisation of knowledge are among his passions, which he advocates strongly.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Prof Shahrir is confident that students steeped in Islam through the Arabic language will find it easier to understand mathematics.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He said in the past many Malays rejected mathematics as it was taught in the Western perspective, especially the English language.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">However, with the practice of teaching science and mathematics in Malay, the situation is changing.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Although trained in the field of pure mathematics (quantum physics), Prof Shahrir is also actively championing Malay and Islamisation of Knowledge throughout his career.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He is skilled in the fields of philosophy of Islamic science, ethnomathematics, languages and management theory, as well as his chosen field of mathematics, a sub-field of quantum physics.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He is known to be rather outspoken and is a renowned academic and emerged as the first Malay to receive a PhD in mathematics.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A graduate of La Trobe University in Australia (1967-1974), Prof. Shahrir obtained his PhD from the same university in the field of quantum mathematics.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He encourages the teaching and learning in Malay at school level through to university and was among the chief proponents of using Malay in technical subjects at UKM till today.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He served as Head of the Department of Mathematics in 1974. He was then promoted to Associate Professor in 1979 and Professor of Physics Mathematics in 1983.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He was subsequently appointed Director of Qualitative Studies in 1984 and in 1991 assumed the position of Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academics).<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/images\/stories\/Icon\/ukmnewsportal.png\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"border\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/images\/stories\/Campus2014\/42UKMPROFSHARARIR02.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TUESDAY, 04 NOVEMBER 2014 17:40 By Saiful Bahri Kamaruddin Pix Corporate Communications Centre BANGI, 3 November 2014 &#8211; The use<a class=\"tukm-readmore\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/archive\/tahun-2014\/november-2014\/the-tireless-advocate-of-using-malay-in-science-and-mathematics\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1996,"parent":1156,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1993","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1993"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1993\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1998,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1993\/revisions\/1998"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1156"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}