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