TY  - BOOK
AU  - Siddiqui,Shahid
TI  - Rethinking education in Pakistan: perceptions, practices, and possibilities 
SN  - 9789694944906
U1  - 370.95491 
PY  - 2007///
CY  - Karachi
PB  - Paramount Publishing Enterprise
KW  - Education
KW  - Pakistan
N1  - CONTENTS
POLICY ISSUES                                   13
Commodification of education              15
Revisiting literacy in Pakistan           21
Revisiting higher education               27
On financing education                    31
The inflation of degrees                  37
The need to refocus                       43
TEACHER AND TEACHER EDUCATION                   47
Holistic approach to teacher education    49
Professional development through self-understanding 55
Qualitative change through teacher education  59
Going beyond skills                       65
The touch-and-go teaching                 69
The workshop syndrome                     75
The tuition institution                   81
Reflective journals in teacher education  85
CURRICULUM AND MATERIALS                        91
Redefining knowledge                      93
Curriculum: a vibrant reality             97
Shortcut to success                      103
The vacation with occupation             109
SCHOOL                                           113
Reconceptualizing good schools             115
Redefining school improvement              121
Punishment in schools                      125
HOME                                            131
Home school relationship                   133
The unhomely homework                      137
The dropouts on streets                    141
LANGUAGE ISSUES                                 147
ELT scenario in Pakistan                   149
The language factor                        153
Teaching of English through collaboration  157
Teaching of language through literature    163
English for engineering                    167
RESEARCH AND ASSESSMENT                         175
Unpacking research paradigms               177
The proxy research                        183
Our ailing assessment system               187


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