Dr Hjh Nor Zaiham Midawati binti Haji Abdullah

norzaiham.abdullah@ubd.edu.bn

  • Assistant Professor

Degrees

  • BA Primary Education (Hons), Universiti Brunei Darussalam, 1999
  • M Ed (School Guidance and Counselling), Queensland University of Technology, Australia, 2002
  • PhD, Queensland University of Technology, 2016

Teaching areas in SHBIE

  • Guidance and counseling
  • Career Counselling
  • Counselling Theory and Practice
  • Strategies and Techniques in Counselling
  • Group Counselling
  • Introduction to Educational Research
  • Counselling Practicum
  • Research Exercise

Interests, expertise and current research areas

Dr Nor Zaiham’s interests surround the area of guidance and counselling, career guidance, values in counselling, student aspirations, and educational psychology.  She has supervised and is currently supervising several graduate students. She has collaborated with other academics on a research project entitled ‘Empowering Nation Building through MIB values and counselling’ under the Brunei Research Council Fund.  She is passionate about raising awareness on mental health and the importance of guidance and counselling among students, teachers, parents and the public in general.  She looks forward to working collaboratively with researchers in the same field to expand her research network and collaboration.

Interested in supervising students in the following areas

  • Guidance and counselling
  • Educational Psychology
  • Educational Sociology
  • Academic Performance
  • Student Aspirations

Sample publications and other links

Shareefa, M., Moosa, V., Matzin, R., Abdullah, NZM., & Jawawi, R. (2019). Teachers’ Perceptions on Differentiated Instruction: Do Experience, Qualification Challenges Matter? International Journal of Learning, Teaching and Educational Research, 18 (8), 214-226. DOI:  https://doi.org/10.26803/ijlter.18.8.13   http://www.ijlter.org/index.php/ijlter/article/view/1608

Shareefa, M., Matzin, R., Abdullah, NZM., & Jawawi, R. (2019). Mainstream and Special Education Teachers’ implementation of Differentiated Instruction. International Journal of Education, 4(31), 260-268. DOI:  https://doi.org/10.35631/ijepc.4310022    http://saruna.mnu.edu.mv/jspui/bitstream/123456789/5055/1/Mainstream%20and%20special%20education%20teachers%27%20implementation%20of%20differentiated%20instruction.pdf

Mundia, L., Mahalle, S., Matzin, R., Zakaria GAN., Abdullah, NZM., & Latif, SNA. (2017). Prediction of employer–employee relationships from sociodemographic variables and social values in Brunei public and private sector workers. Psychological Research and Behavior Management. 10, 257-269. DOI: http://doi.org/10.2147/PRBM.S136479   https://www.dovepress.com/prediction-of-employer-employee-relationships-from-sociodemographic-va-peer-reviewed-article-PRBM

Mundia, L., Mahalle, S., Matzin, R., Zakaria GAN., & Abdullah, NZM. (2017). Sociodemographic variables and social values: relationship with work-attendance problems in Brunei public-and private-sector employees. Neuropsychiatric Disease and Treatment 13, 2307-2319. DOI: https://doi.org/10.2147/NDT.S135418   https://www.dovepress.com/sociodemographic-variables-and-social-values-relationship-with-work-at-peer-reviewed-article-NDT