Course Leaders
- Alan Chan
- Alistair King
- Anne Munro
- Christopher Wong
- Cynthia Jonas
- Daniel Chew Seng Choon
- Manjit Kaur
- Richard Kumar
- Roberta Cava
- Sherina Ng
- Vivian Chong
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Anne Munro , Dr
( British )
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Dr Anne Munro’s own educational background
is testimony to her belief in personal development and proactive change.
As a "special needs" educationist in the seventies, she was involved
in a dynamic process of proactive change in institutional systems and approaches,
aimed at maximizing the potential of disadvantaged students in London and
Manchester. It was from this experience that she saw the need for a better
understanding of social change and was led first to developmental studies
at the University of Sussex and later to post-graduate Sociology of Development
at Manchester University. This background has provided the tools with which
to analyse social change at the personal, institutional and larger social
context. Indeed, Sociology is the study of change.
Consequently, training within and for a variety of institutions and companies
over the years, in UK, Singapore and Malaysia, has been rooted in a core
belief in human potential, an awareness of which is a necessary precursor
to developing a viable programme for its realization. Her role has frequently
been to catalyze that awareness and provide a systematic means to begin
the process of personal improvement. Such a paradigm shift is also a tremendous
benefit to any organisation with which the individual works for it can
result in creativity, innovation and flexibility - essential elements of
any dynamic business.
Her involvements have included communications courses with post-graduate
students at the University of Science and Technology, Manchester and MARA
teachers in Malaysia. At the regional level, she has been engaged in a
number of projects, most recently one on the impact of change in technology
and women’s work for the United Nations University in Maastricht and, currently,
one evaluating the impact of participatory ECCD training in Malaysia for
disadvantaged children, in conjunction with the Bernard van Leer Foundation
of the Netherlands.
In the corporate world, too, initiatives are needed to cope successfully
with a rapidly changing global environment and she has found it challenging
and enjoyable to conduct training sessions in Managing Change and Business
Communication for both clerical and managerial levels of large corporations
in Malaysia.
Recent Publications include:
Keying into the Future: Issues in Computers
and Office Work
Co-edited with Dr Cecelia Ng, WDC (Women’s Development Collective
and Women’s Study Unit at Universiti Pertanian Malaysia) 1944
Report on New Technologies and the Future of Women’s
Work in Asia
Co-edited with Dr Cecelia Ng, UN University Institute of Technology, Maastricht
1995
Report on the Impact of ECCD Training in Malaysia
(Bernard van Leer and national ECCD NGOs) forthcoming
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