黄先炳_Wong Sien Biang

A Rare Living Pilgrimage — Join Us Online
(Co-organize by: UTAR Buddhist Research Centre, YBAM, YBBM, BRSM, MBKA)

拉曼大学佛教研究中心联合马佛青、马佛研、马居总、马基金会邀请Mr Arnand Deepak线上主讲上述课题（追溯玄奘大师的朝圣足迹）。Deepak 是首位在印度实地徒步，追随玄奘足迹的当代探索者。他历时数月，沿着玄奘大师记述的路线前行，即使在全球疫情最艰难的时期，仍以“正精进”的精神完成这段罕见的行脚之旅。这不仅是一段历史回溯，更是一场连接佛陀时代与当代世界的生命实践。欢迎您来聆听这段未被充分诉说的故事，感受朝圣、历史与慈悲在当代的真实交汇。

We warmly invite you to an inspiring online talk, “Retracing Bodhisattva Xuanzang: A Modern Pilgrimage,” featuring Mr Deepak Anand.

Deepak Anand is the first contemporary explorer to retrace the footsteps of Xuanzang across India—walking for months along the ancient paths described by the great master himself, even amid the challenges of the global pandemic. This is more than history; it is a living journey of right effort, resilience, and compassion, connecting the Buddha’s world with our own time.

✨ Join us to hear untold stories, personal reflections, and insights from this extraordinary pilgrimage.
📅 5 February 2026 (Thu) | ⏰ 8:30–10:00 PM
💻 Online via MS Teams / Zoom
🎟️ Free registration: https://forms.gle/wy1AR8ER6XnJc3XNA

👉 All are welcome. Come walk this path with us—step by step.

Gandhāra Art represents one of the most important turning points in Buddhist visual history. Emerging from the northwest of the Indian subcontinent, Gandhāra became a unique crossroads of civilisations, where Indian Buddhist thought encountered Hellenistic, Persian, and Central Asian artistic traditions. It was here that the earliest anthropomorphic images of the Buddha were formed, laying the foundation for later Buddhist art across Asia.

The talk will be delivered by Dr Leow Chai-Yee, a recognised specialist in Gandhāran Buddhist art. She obtained PhD from Peking University and completed her postdoctoral research at Harvard University. She is currently appointed as Associate Research Fellow in Harvard University. Dr Leow’s research combines art history, archaeology, and Buddhist studies, offering a rigorous yet accessible perspective on Gandhāra as both the cradle of Buddhist art and a meeting point of ancient civilisations.
Don't miss this online sharing this coming Thursday (8/1/26)

🎙️Online Talk: Understanding Gandhāra: The Cradle of Buddhist Art and a Crossroads of Civilisations by Dr. Leow Chai Yee
📅 Date: 8 Jan 2026
🕒 Time: 8.30 PM Malaysian Time
📍 Venue: Join Zoom Meeting
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/86797608070?pwd=uDoWtyoRcMBCVBeimnaTGfbeIwI1rc.1
Meeting ID: 867 9760 8070
Passcode: 531336

Don't miss this opportunity to expand your research knowledge and skills!

📢 Don’t miss out—share this with friends and colleagues who might benefit!

Fakulti Pendidikan UTAR ditubuhkan pada bulan Jun 2025.
Program yang ditawarkan buat ketika ini ialah:
1) Bachelor of Arts (Honours) English Education (akan ditukar nama kepada Bachelor of Education in TESL)
2) Bachelor of Early Childhood Education (Honours)
3) Master in Educational Technology
4) Doctor of Philosophy (Education)
Berikut ialah barisan kepimpinan fakulti bagi tahun 2025:

Ribuan terima kasih kepada Sekolah Menengah Foon Yew, Johor Bharu kerana memberi peluang kepada saya untuk mengendalikan satu sesi latihan kepada lebih kurang 70 orang guru permulaan dari Kampus utama, Kampus Kulai dan Kampus Seri Alam pada 29 Disember 2025 (Isnin). Berikut ialah laporn saya dalam Bahasa Inggeris:

This training session was not about asking teachers to change immediately, nor about imposing a fixed teaching method. Instead, it began with teachers’ real classroom experiences. Prior to the session, I collected feedback through a Google Form and designed the training in direct response to their concerns. The session explored a central question:—— Teaching is not merely about covering content, but about helping students learn how to think and exercise judgement.

The training focused on three key directions:

🔹 The nature of teaching
Many classroom challenges are, in fact, rooted in instructional design rather than in students themselves.

🔹 From answers to thinking
Through questioning, evidence, discussion, and reflection, students can be guided to understand how answers are formed, rather than simply identifying the “correct” answer.

🔹 AI as an assistant, not the protagonist
AI can support lesson preparation and activity design, but teachers’ professional judgement and value guidance remain irreplaceable.

After the session, participant feedback was collected. Many teachers shared that the training helped them realise that:

1. AI can be a valuable assistant, but teachers must learn not only how to use it, but also how to evaluate and judge the information it provides, and use it to support thinking.
2. Language learning is fundamentally about expression and communication, including cultural meaning and values. Overemphasis on grammar can discourage learners.
3. Educators should reflect on deeper questions such as: *What kind of person do we want students to become? What does it mean to live well?* This points to the importance of whole-person education.
4. Classroom issues such as discipline problems, low motivation, or limited ability are not fixed. When learning is designed to engage students in thinking and participation, many of these challenges can be addressed.
5. Change does not need to happen immediately. Beginning with changes in ourselves, and positively influencing even one student, parent, or fellow educator, is already meaningful.
6. The transmission of Chinese education should not rely solely on rote memorisation of classical texts, model essays, or rigid examinations based on standard answers.

During the session, I also posed an open question to teachers: ”What is one small change you plan to try in the coming month?” Their main responses included:

* using AI to support lesson preparation
* adjusting questioning strategies
* increasing classroom interaction
* cultivating students’ independent and critical thinking

This training session also forms part of the Faculty of Education’s ongoing commitment to professional outreach and educational dialogue with schools. Educational change may not be immediate, but beginning with one lesson and one question already matters.

Thank you to for valuing teachers’ professional growth.
lies in continuous reflection and purposeful progress.

I was invited to deliver a keynote speech yesterday (25/10/2025) at the 2025 Chinese Education Summit (华教高峰会议), jointly organized by D**g Zong (董总), Jiao Zong (教总), Merdeka Education Centre (独大), and 27 other national Chinese organizations. My keynote title: “From Preservation to Innovation: Setting the Future Direction of Chinese Education Beyond 2025”

The event was reported in Sin Chew Daily today:
https://www.sinchew.com.my/?p=6974116

(KL, Oct 25) – Dean of the Faculty of Education at Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman (UTAR), Dr. Wong Sien Biang, stated that the future development of Chinese education in Malaysia must shift from passive reaction to proactive design, positioning itself as an innovative partner in national education.

"By planning wisely with a clear blueprint, taking teachers as the foundation, culture as the soul, and technology as the wings, Chinese education will be able to continue contributing to Malaysia’s diversity and sustainable development beyond 2025,” he said.

He emphasized that, in the face of national education reform and global educational transformation, Chinese education should not fall into a defensive position, but instead integrate confidently and rationally into the national education framework.

He urged the Chinese community to actively participate in the discussion and formulation of national education policies, so that Chinese education can truly become a constructive part of Malaysia’s education ecosystem.

Blueprint for Chinese Education: Three Core Goals

Dr. Wong proposed that the Chinese community should work together to formulate a "Smart Chinese Education Blueprint (2025 and Beyond)” under the national education vision to chart a clear long-term direction.

He suggested that the blueprint focus on three main goals:

1. Enhancing learning quality and teaching effectiveness through AI and digital technology;
2. Strengthening teachers’ professional development as the core of education;
3. Promoting educational innovation through multilingualism and cultural diversity.

He added that, in facing the challenges of the AI era and global educational transformation, Chinese education must take educational quality and cultural value as its foundation, guided by artificial intelligence and multilingual ecology, and bridged by rationality and inclusiveness — to move from ideals to practice, and to build a sustainable and forward-looking education system.

Malaysia’s Multilingual Environment as an Advantage

Dr. Wong highlighted that Chinese education, in redefining its position in the new era, should take educational quality and cultural value as its foundation, while being guided by AI and multilingual ecology.

He noted that Malaysia’s multilingual environment is a long-accumulated social resource, and in the AI era, it serves as a valuable data and cultural asset — even a key component of national competitiveness.

“Safeguarding Malaysia’s multilingual ecology is not only a responsibility of cultural preservation, but also a mission for continuous innovation in the age of artificial intelligence,” he said.

Dr. Wong concluded that while policy provides the framework, the future direction depends on the community’s foresight and action.

“History shows that every crisis brings with it the seed of renewal.
Chinese education has survived and grown because the Chinese community has demonstrated wisdom through persistence and dialogue — building resilience between preservation and adaptation.”

今天(20/7/2025)下午2pm，上线听安焕然教授谈历史。

🔥🔥20/7 星期日 安焕然教授讲课
鼠鹿的智慧：满剌加的史实与马六甲的故事
📢马上报名 https://edu.faqing.org/course/shuludezhihui/
听现场的，跟教授交流的经验特棒，教授犹如坐在你旁边听你问，回答直戳重点。
👍👍欢迎来跟教授对话

6/7 讲了什么：
🔥三本书了解马六甲历史
🔥满剌加 或 马六甲
🔥成功大学，苦闷思乡，惊喜捞到好料
马上报名 https://edu.faqing.org/course/shuludezhihui/ 收看回播

25/8/2024, 我们接待了伊斯兰党的1位国会议员，6位州议员的拜访。在佛教会服务近半个世纪，这还是第一次有那么多议员主动联袂到访，虽然他们有他们的政治议程，不过，我们还是欢迎这样的访问和交流。
1 orang YB Ahli Parlimen dan 6 orang YB ADUN Pahang dari parti politik PAS telah melawat Persatuan Buddhis Pahang pada 25 Ogos 2024. Selama saya di komuniti Buddhis hampir setengah abad, tidak pernah ada ahli politik datang melawat atas inisiatif sendiri. Kami menyambut baik dan mengalu-alukan sesi dialog seperti ini.

感谢马来西亚中学华文教师联谊会的邀请，让我有机会可以和中学华文老师做一次直面交流，谈中学华文的教学。

hujung minggu ini (26-28/6/2024) berpeluang bertemu dengan guru-guru bahasa Cina sekolah menengah untuk membincangkan cara penyampaian yang lebih berkesan.

感谢新加坡《联合早报》 的采访与报道。https://www.zaobao.com.sg/news/sea/story20240319-3161864

Terima kasih Lianhe Zaobao, akhbar harian Singapura membuat laporan yang agak terperinci tentang Akademi Faqing.

摘要：
法情学堂是较频密开班授课的平台之一，每个月有历史、儿童文学及政治等内容的网络课程。自2020年6月至今，该平台共办了48门课程，拥有将近6500名会员，其中约15％的会员来自香港、新加坡、台湾、中国大陆和印度尼西亚。

法情学堂创办人之一的黄先炳博士受访时说，法情学堂宗旨是“让学术走向群众”，以期提高民众的理性和科学思维。该平台最大的特色是提供视频回播，让学员可以重温课程。

马国民间网课红火 带动社会学习风气 马来西亚民间团体在冠病疫情期间开办网络课程，带动了线上学习的风潮。如今，民间网络课程越来越普及，成了许多民众获取通识教育及专业培训的管道。2020年冠病疫情期间，马国政府实施行动管...

法情学堂被看见了，真好！有报馆记者发现，觉得我们的课程很棒，给予采访。

Akademi faqing ialah satu tapak pembelajaran dalam talian yang ditubuhkan pada Jun 2020. Setiap bulan ia menawarkan kursus (dengan satu tema tertentu) dalam talian kepada orang awam secara percuma. Sehingga hari ini telah 46 kursus dilaksanakan.

自2020年6月就经营的法情学堂，是一个线上免费学习的教育平台。我们感觉到骄傲的是，四年来我们每个月一次的专题讲座，从没有间断过，已经办了46期。（下表所列）我常说：滴水穿石，不是水的尖利，而是背后的坚持。感谢团队和合作单位（马来西亚中学华文教师联谊会、香港浸会大学孙少文伉俪人文中国研究所）

法情学堂的特色：
1）可以随时随地随意看回播。
2）民办教育平台，参与的人都是义务的。
3）没有任何单位/个人给予定期赞助。

9月20日，参加隆雪华堂办的“国是论坛”。我和香港程介明教授、拿督陈友信、陈穆洪博士是教育课题的发言人。

程教授的讲座给予我非常深刻的印象，15分钟发言，真的做到言简意赅，同时带出一个该注意点事项。他的课题是“世界宏观高等教育的发展”。程教授让我们知道国际间很多的大学毕业生都是“不务正业”的，就连世界顶级大学之一的MIT，很多工程系毕业生也不当工程师（系主任也知道这点，但也说“不过优秀的工程师还是从MIT毕业的”）。这一点，其实提供给我们很大的反思空间，大学教育该如何办？是不是要根据市场导向（拿督陈友信下来的发言，正好是谈市场导向的大学课程）？

程教授也分析了当今社会的一种趋向——越年轻的一代，他们在一个领域任职的时间越短。下图显示这样一个调研：25-34岁之间的，就职年份只有2.8年，55岁以上的却是10年以上。对此，您又有和感想？大学教育又该给当今大学生提供什么课程？

程教授没有开展阐述，就把一种现象很有条理的报告出来。说实在，我获益良多，深受启发。所以我对拿督陈友信下来的发言，是更加质疑的。

很巧合的，我下来的发言是针对基础教育。这也是也个教育变革的问题。传统的3R（读写算）已经不足于应付时代要求，4C,5C,6C是时代趋向。我也用了一些官方文件说明教育部的反思与探讨（难得后来做总结的陈亚才老师看到这点，特别提出我们国家的教育规划是跟得上时代的，不要一提到我们教育，就只会批评，嗤之以鼻，马来西亚不是那么不济事的）。上层是看到这种演化的，关键在执行任务的教师是不是跟得上。

20/09/2023，saya menghadiri satu konferen yang cukup bermakna. Salah seorang panel dalam perbincangan isu pendidikan, Prof Dr Cheng Kai Meng telah memberi satu gambaran perkembangan pendidikan tinggi sedunia yang cukup menarik:
(1) Di dunia sekarang, karier graduan rata-rata nya tidak setara dengan bidang yang mereka belajar dalam universiti. Melatih mahasiswa untuk mengisi tenaga pengajar di industri mengikut kehendak pasaran perlu ditimbang semula. Kepakaran apa yang kita perlu?
(2) Golongan remaja mengamalkan kehidupan yang agak berbeza dengan senior. Mengikut kajian, hajat karier mereka yang dalam lingkungan muda jauh lebih rendah daripada senior (rujuk slide yang ditunjuk di bawah). Kita mesti tahu situasi ini dan merancang apa yang perlu kami sampaikan kepada mereka, terutamanya institusi pendidikan tinggi.