Siddiqui, Shahid <br/><br/>
Rethinking education in Pakistan :  perceptions, practices, and possibilities / 
Shahid Siddiqui 
 - 1st ed. 
 - Karachi :  Paramount Publishing Enterprise,  2007 
 - 196 p. ;  23 cm. 
<br/><br/>CONTENTS<br/>POLICY ISSUES                                   13<br/>Commodification of education              15<br/>Revisiting literacy in Pakistan           21<br/>Revisiting higher education               27<br/>On financing education                    31<br/>The inflation of degrees                  37<br/>The need to refocus                       43<br/>TEACHER AND TEACHER EDUCATION                   47<br/>Holistic approach to teacher education    49<br/>Professional development through self-understanding 55<br/>Qualitative change through teacher education  59<br/>Going beyond skills                       65<br/>The touch-and-go teaching                 69<br/>The workshop syndrome                     75<br/>The tuition institution                   81<br/>Reflective journals in teacher education  85<br/>CURRICULUM AND MATERIALS                        91<br/>Redefining knowledge                      93<br/>Curriculum: a vibrant reality             97<br/>Shortcut to success                      103<br/>The vacation with occupation             109<br/>SCHOOL                                           113<br/>Reconceptualizing good schools             115<br/>Redefining school improvement              121<br/>Punishment in schools                      125<br/>HOME                                            131<br/>Home school relationship                   133<br/>The unhomely homework                      137<br/>The dropouts on streets                    141<br/>LANGUAGE ISSUES                                 147<br/>ELT scenario in Pakistan                   149<br/>The language factor                        153<br/>Teaching of English through collaboration  157<br/>Teaching of language through literature    163<br/>English for engineering                    167<br/>RESEARCH AND ASSESSMENT                         175<br/>Unpacking research paradigms               177<br/>The proxy research                        183<br/>Our ailing assessment system               187<br/><br/> 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9789694944906 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Education--Pakistan.
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>370.95491  / S5684