Pakistaniaat: A Journal of Pakistan Studies
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Perspective of Organizational Cultural in Effective Teacher Socialization: A Study of Beginning English Teachers in Pakistan
Get PDFAbstract English language teaching in Pakistan is one of the major areas in the current educational reforms with the special focus on professional socialization of English teachers. This study aims at discovering and quantifying the relationship between organizational culture and effective socialization of beginning English teachers. Organizational culture has been identified with the considerations of equal & fair treatment with the beginning teachers, well-defined policies, self-recognition, academic facilities, teachers’ interaction and individual and organizational expectations. The required data was collected through survey method techniques, selecting a sample from the colleges located in Punjab province and Islamabad and getting questionnaires filled. The data, collected from 295 respondents, was analyzed and testified with statistical description. The results rejected the null hypothesis of no relationship between effective socialization and organizational culture. The results identified many socialization challenges to beginning teachers related to organizational culture including within weak relationship among teachers, concerns for equal treatment, unsupported administrative milieu, shaky self-perception, insufficient academic resources and ineffective role of staffroom. Finally it is suggested that organizational culture of Pakistani colleges may be made more conducive by training beginning teachers in conformity with the organizational objectives and professional requirements, bringing down the rate of conflicts and errors and above all enhancing the positive role of the principals who should create a productive environment with the help of a young team of enthusiastic beginning teachers
Dr. Mahmood Ahmad Ghazi (1950-2010): Life & Contributions
Get PDFDr. Mahmood Ahmad Ghazi, Rahmatullah ‘Alayh, was a renowned Islamic scholar of th late 20th and 21st centuries, acknowledged for his intellectual and academic contributions to Islamic Social Sciences. He was serving as the Judge of the Federal Sharȋ‘at Court of Pakistan at the time of his demise and was Professor of Sharȋ‘ah, at International Islamic University, Islamabad. During his lifespan, he held numerous academic and administrative positions, fellowships of several national and international scholastic bodies. He attended around 100 national and international conferences. Professor Ghazi had thorough knowledge of Arabic, English, Persian, Urdu and French languages. He was a highly productive writer of English, Arabic and Urdu languages. He produced more than 30 books in the areas of Islamic law, cosmopolitan Islamic jurisprudence, Muslim political thought, Islamic resurgence, Islamic economics, Islamic education, Qur'ânic sciences, HadÈ‹th sciences and SÈ‹rah sciences.This paper highlights his brief memoir; academic and administrative contributions; his major published, unpublished and incomplete works, for the sake of recognition, preservation and guidance for further research.Â
Blind Faith: Women at War in Khuda kay Liye and Escape from Taliban
Get PDFBlind Faith: Women at War in Khuda kay Liye and Escape from TalibanInspired by Huntingdon’s “Clash of Civilizations,†George W. Bush’s Manichean cold war rhetoric struck a responsive chord in the media, with the villification of Islam or more precisely the conflation of Islam – as though it was a monolithic religion – with terrorism. For Hollywood and Bollywood, the Islamic terrorist became the archetypal villain and a new subgenre of thrillers emerged featuring terrorist cells with films such as Shoot on Sight: Is it a crime to be a Muslim? (Mundhra, 2007), New York (Khan, 2009) or My Name is Khan (Johar, 2010). Those binaries also underpin films about Pakistani and Afghan societies. The present paper discusses the issues of women’s rights, particularly forced marriage, and the growing influence of fundamentalism in the Pakistani box office success, Khuda kay Liye (Mansoor, 2007) and in the Bollywood film, Escape from Taliban (Chatterjee, 2003)
Citizenship Education in Pakistan
Get PDFThis paper seeks to explore the context of Pakistan from the traditional vs. the modern, the religious vs. the secular and the democratic vs. the autocratic, as well as to analyze how citizenship education is currently producing three outcomes, namely moral and law abiding citizens, market-based citizens and nationalistic and Islamic citizens. A critical discourse of the Pakistan Ministry of Education curriculum, policy documents and frameworks will be drawn upon to build the case that Pakistan’s citizenship education is not producing critical thinkers who “develop their social consciousness to the extent that they become the agents of social change†and why this may be (Government of Pakistan Ministry of Education, 2007, p.14). Before exploring the citizenship education discourse a brief historical context will be provided in order to understand Pakistan
The Nostalgic Detective: Identity formation in Detective Fiction of Pakistan
Get PDFThrough an analysis of Ibn-e-Safi’s writings, this article explores the existence of a reflective nostalgia in Post-Colonial Pakistan. We propose that this nostalgia operated at three levels; firstly, it represented an approach that saw the geographical separation of India not as a complete socio-cultural break where the entire heritage of India had to be disowned in order to become an “authentic†Pakistani. Secondly, it was a yearning for the inclusive religiosity where religion was a matter of personal choice and not a state enforced enterprise. Finally, it represented an attitude towards Colonialism which accepted modernity and rationality while keeping indigenous traditional values intact
Faiz Ahmed Faiz – The Relevance of his Poetry Today (Urdu)
No full textFaiz Ahmed Faiz is a great national personality. His cultural contribution is diverse, pragmatic and intellectual. Every great literary personality raises challenges to literary belief and tradition. Faiz’s poetry brings up such challenges as well. Critics in every generation have discussed his poetry and no doubt this analysis will continue into future generations. Faiz’s poetry is unique in terms of its high technical and nostalgic nature. The presentation will assess the poetry of Faiz and emphasise its relevance today. It also refers and renders from authentic intellectual sources such as Karl Marx, Hafiz, Edward Said, Elliot and Ezra Pound. It dwells on the words of Faiz, ‘I believe that humanity has never accepted defeat against its enemies and will be victorious in the end. And war, hate, oppression and prejudice shall one day be replaced by what Hafiz, the great Persian poet, proclaimed love as the ultimate and immaculate basis of human relationships.â€
