The Role of Educational Institutions in Islamization, Social Reformation and National Integration in Pakistan

Education is the key to a living and dynamic human civilization based on human creativity and productivity. Uniformity in curriculum provides a well-defined and unambiguous goal and it leads toward national integration and social cohesion. Consequently, the potential and competence of the individuals are utilized in a desired and productive manner without a slightest deviation from the defined goal. Pakistan inherited two diverse educational approaches with its inception known as AlÊga’rh and Deoband approaches, commonly known as school and Madrassa educational systems. The aim and objective of both the approaches were to educate and groom the Muslims of the sub-continent in religious and modern scientific education and to preserve the rich values and traditions of Muslim civilization from the onslaught of colonial powers. Undoubtedly, both approaches followed their initial philosophies with zeal and zest. Unfortunately, with the passage of time both the approaches have been deviating from the aims and objectives due to certain unavoidable political, social and economic factors. One is blindly following the footsteps of Western philosophy of education mainly based on materialism and the other has closed its eyes from the growing religious challenges posed by various dynamics and entirely engaged in provision of sect-based education. Consequently, the outcomes are intellectual stagnation, moral degradation, no sense of responsibility and detachment from values and traditions of Muslim civilization. A grievous gap has been widening between the followers of both approaches rapidly that causes national disintegration as well as social disorder and instability. Moreover, Muslim civilization has stopped growing and inspiring others. An attempt has been made in this paper to study and analyze both the educational approaches critically and objectively and to explore a feasible and productive way out and to fill the gap. Keywords: Pakistan, Educational Reformation, Deformation, Islam

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Cognitively Informed Multimedia Interface Design

Multimedia Technologies ◽

10.4018/978-1-59904-953-3.ch033 ◽

2008 ◽

pp. 465-471

Author(s):

E. M. Alkhalifa

Keyword(s):

Cognitive Psychology ◽

Human Computer Interaction ◽

Interface Design ◽

Present Knowledge ◽

Pivotal Role ◽

Educational Systems ◽

Multimedia Interface ◽

The Rich ◽

Made In ◽

Computer Interaction

The rich contributions made in the field of human computer interaction (HCI) have played a pivotal role in shifting the attention of the industry to the interaction between users and computers (Myers, 1998). However, technologies that include hypertext, multimedia, and manipulation of graphical objects were designed and presented to the users without referring to critical findings made in the field of cognitive psychology. These findings allow designers of multimedia educational systems to present knowledge in a fashion that would optimize learning.

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Psychological and pedagogical aspects of the prevention of extremism in youth

Psychology and Law ◽

10.17759/psylaw.2018080312 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 8 (3) ◽

pp. 167-178 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

N.V. Serdyuk ◽

L.L. Grishenko ◽

A.M. Stolyarenko

Keyword(s):

Environmental Conditions ◽

Personality Development ◽

Educational Needs ◽

Educational Environment ◽

Educational Institutions ◽

Educational Systems ◽

Individual Experience ◽

Environment Factors ◽

Higher Educational

The issues of projecting personality developing pedagogical systems, such as underestimating the role of students’ educational needs in educational projects and also underestimating impetuses and opportunities of social and cultural macro-environment are considered in the article. Subjective (needs and motives, aims, individual experience) and objective (demands, contradictions and risks, communicative and pragmatist opportunities of the environment) factors which influence personality development are named. The model of personality development in its interaction with educational environment – sequential changing student’s role positions, his educational needs and necessary environmental conditions – is given. On the basis of this model the variant of a questionnaire which investigates students’ educational needs, is suggested. The process of testing the questionnaire is described briefly. The results of questioning students of higher educational and further vocational educational institutions are given and analyzed. Practically significant conclusions for pedagogical projecting personality developing educational systems are made.

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What Stops Creativity?

Creativity in Workforce Development and Innovation - Advances in Human Resources Management and Organizational Development ◽

10.4018/978-1-5225-4952-9.ch003 ◽

2018 ◽

pp. 46-66

Keyword(s):

Academic Achievement ◽

Teacher Training ◽

Educational Institutions ◽

Educational Systems ◽

Global Community ◽

High Stakes ◽

Accountability System ◽

Admission Requirements ◽

Creativity And Innovation

As demand for creativity increases globally the role of education is crucial to prepare future workers to deal with changing expectations of the workforce. Educational institutions should reflect intentional support for development of creativity and innovation. There is a conflicting paradigm of demands for success in the global community and the measures of academic achievement in many schools. Educational systems influence creativity and innovation through environments, socialization, and reward systems. Some specific points of interest about creativity and innovation include research on teachers' interactions and beliefs about creative students, the possible impact of a high stakes accountability system and admission requirements for teacher training.

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Education in European cinema and society’s exclusion of the young

Comunicar ◽

10.3916/c35-2010-02-05 ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 18 (35) ◽

pp. 53-60 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Enrique Martínez-Salanova-Sánchez

Keyword(s):

Children And Adolescents ◽

Significant Role ◽

Educational Systems ◽

European Cinema ◽

Role Of Parents ◽

Children Education ◽

Made In

This article analyses the portrayal of education in European cinema from the perspective of systems of education and the behaviour of teachers and pupils in the classroom. Since its very beginnings, cinema has played a significant role in forming the collective European memory, and has cast a critical eye over pedagogy and didactics, especially with regard to young outcasts. The article reviews a number of films whose subject is education, the classroom and the role of parents and teachers in educating children. Education and children is a recurring theme in European cinema, which examines its subject from a critical viewpoint that is sometimes satirical and occasionally savage. The exclusion, marginalization, neglect and manipulation of children and adolescents, and the abuse and merciless severity of certain educational systems are all part of the collective European memory thanks to the condemnation of some of the best films ever made in the continent. They ask pointed questions about educational systems, the behaviour of teachers and inadequate didactics, as well as tackling the conflicts in a multiethnic society. Analizar el cine europeo desde una perspectiva educativa y en cuanto a sus sistemas educativos y la vida en las aulas de profesores y alumnos, es el objeto de este trabajo. El cinematógrafo, desde sus comienzos, ha tenido una gran influencia en el establecimiento de la memoria colectiva europea, en especial, en la visión crítica que aporta al mundo de la pedagogía y la didáctica, que ha tratado casi desde sus inicios, en particular hacia los menores y adolescentes marginados. Se citan brevemente y se presentan una serie de films que tienen que ver con la educación, las aulas, el rol de maestros, profesores, padres y educadores en relación con los niños… temas que han sido recurrentes en el cine europeo, expuesto en su mayor parte de forma crítica, y en ocasiones, de manera satírica o con excepcional dureza. La exclusión, la marginalidad y el abandono, la manipulación de niños y adolescentes, los malos tratos y la dureza despiadada de algunos sistemas educativos… forman parte de la memoria colectiva de Europa, con la ayuda de algunas denuncias del mejor cine que se han realizado en el Continente. Se plantean así agudos interrogantes sobre la educación, los sistemas educativos, los comportamientos de maestros y profesores y la escasez de didácticas adecuadas, así como los conflictos en una sociedad multiétnica.

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Locative Complements of Verbs of Movement in Czech

Belgian Journal of Linguistics ◽

10.1075/bjl.18.06ung ◽

2004 ◽

Vol 18 ◽

pp. 87-113

Author(s):

Marta Ungermanová

Keyword(s):

The Other ◽

Clear Cut ◽

Other Hand ◽

The Rich ◽

The One ◽

Syntactic Properties ◽

Made In

This paper describes the syntactic properties of three types of locative complements in Czech that are compatible with verbs of movement. The distinction between these complements (each with its own interpretation) is made in the first place on the basis of several formal criteria (in particular, involving the rich Czech morphology), and, in addition, on semantic criteria. It is examined whether there exists sufficient correspondence between these criteria, and in particular, to what extent they can satisfactorily classify locative complements into essential and circumstantial ones. It is shown that there is no clear-cut distinction between these two categories of locative complements with Czech movement verbs. Furthermore, the syntactic role of the locative complements is shown to depend mainly on the verb, but also on other elements of the sentence. Finally, on the basis of several examples, it is argued that, on the one hand, the form of the complement does not predict its syntactic role and interpretation and, on the other hand, that two different forms can share the same syntactic role and interpretation.

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A PHILOSOPHY OF EDUCATION: OUR EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS AND THE ECONOMY

Think ◽

10.1017/s147717561600035x ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 16 (45) ◽

pp. 53-65

Author(s):

Adrian Brockless

Keyword(s):

Economic Impact ◽

Philosophy Of Education ◽

Educational Institutions ◽

Economic Welfare ◽

Material Wealth ◽

The Times ◽

The Individual ◽

Critical Resistance

The topics of education and the role of educational institutions in society are seldom far from the headlines, the lips of politicians, schoolteachers and parents. Discussion of education (and its associated institutions) within these forums tends to assume uncritically that its ultimate point is to benefit the economy and, by extension, empower the individual through increased prestige and material wealth. This article argues that such a conception of education is misguided and, indeed dangerous, as it estranges us from forms of thought that are frequently united with our conception of what it means to be human, alongside damaging prospects of long-term economic welfare. It is, therefore, the responsibility of our educational institutions to maintain a critical resistance to the culture of the times by ensuring that they do not merely become factories that train their students in ways purely designed to maximize economic impact and increased personal wealth.

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Upaya Penanggulangan Terhadap Anggota Kepolisian Yang Terlibat Tindak Pidana Peredaran Narkotika (Studi Kasus Di Kepolisian Resort Kota Besar Medan)

Jurnal Hukum Kaidah: Media Komunikasi dan Informasi Hukum dan Masyarakat ◽

10.30743/jhk.v19i2.2443 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 19 (2) ◽

pp. 258-291

Author(s):

Boby Hartawan

Keyword(s):

Law Enforcement ◽

Drug Trafficking ◽

Police Officers ◽

Economic Factors ◽

Direct Control ◽

Legal Proceedings ◽

Narcotics Trafficking ◽

Descriptive Method ◽

Made In

Police officers who are supposed to be law enforcers commit acts that are contrary to the law for the benefit of the narcotics business.The problem in this thesis is how the factors underlying the occurrence of criminal acts of narcotics distribution by members of the police in Medan City Resort Police, how is the role of Medan City Resort Police in tackling narcotics abuse by the police in Medan City Resort Police, how can effort be made in overcoming criminal acts of narcotics distribution by unscrupulous members of the police and obstacles encountered in Medan City Resort Police.This research uses a descriptive method through an empirical juridical approach that is an approach to the problem, conducted by doing interviews by connecting with various aspects of law in terms of applicable regulation.The results showed that the role of Medan City Resort Police was to carry out law enforcement against individual members of Medan City Resort Police who had been proven to have committed a crime, especially narcotics through general courts.In addition to the general court of law for members of the police who commit crimes there will also be another addition, namely from the internal police itself in the form of law enforcement through the trial of the police code of ethics.Factors underlying the occurrence of criminal acts narcotics distribution by unscrupulous members of the police in Medan City Resort Police are mental, economic, and environmental factors. Economic factors are the dominant factors that cause impetus to commit drug trafficking crimes because by trafficking narcotics the result can be directly used to meet the needs of daily life. Efforts that can be made in tackling the crime of narcoticsdistribution by unscrupulous members of the police and the obstacle faced in Medan City Resort Police is to make efforts to overcome the Non Penal through pre-emptive, preventive efforts. This effort was made to prevent narcotics trafficking through direct control and supervision with the aim that the potential for crime would not develop into a factual threat. Another effort is to carry out legal proceedings if the police carry out criminal acts of narcotics abuse and distribution.Key-Words: Prevention, Circulation, Narcotics.

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Students’ Voice in Higher Education in Italy and Latvia

Andragoška spoznanja ◽

10.4312/as.25.1.33-49 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 25 (1) ◽

pp. 33-49

Author(s):

Jelena Stepanova ◽

Concetta Tino ◽

Fedeli Monica

Keyword(s):

Higher Education ◽

Research Question ◽

Educational Process ◽

Educational Institutions ◽

Comparative Methodology ◽

The Right ◽

University Of Padua ◽

Support Students ◽

Made In

The participation of students in the educational process is a key to success for higher education. The implementation of activities in which students’ voice is heard via different practices and actors on mega, macro, meso and micro levels brings unexpectedly impressive results in learning. The article investigates the role of students’ voice in two public educational institutions in Latvia (University of Latvia) and Italy (University of Padua). The comparison is made in two categories, actors and practices, to respond to the research question of whether the Italian and Latvian systems support students’ participation/engagement in higher education. The comparative methodology of the study determined the differences and the similarities between the students’ voice practices of the two higher education institutions and proved that Italian and Latvian systems support students’ participation/engagement in higher education; although some improvements are still needed, they are on the right track to implementing it on all levels and in all dimensions.

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