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A Spring Board To Fly, Aafiyat Nazar
A Spring Board To Fly, Aafiyat Nazar
Institute for Educational Development, Karachi
No abstract provided.
Reflection In Action: Constructive Narratives Of Experience, Nilofar Vazir
Reflection In Action: Constructive Narratives Of Experience, Nilofar Vazir
Institute for Educational Development, Karachi
This paper examines narratives of experience from teachers’ lives. It locates teachers as academic constructors of knowledge and uses the cases of reflective practice and inquiry in the development of self‐knowledge. I explore teachers knowledge in light of my own understanding from literature, research findings on beginning teachers, reflections on my personal experiences; my development as a teacher overseas and in my country Pakistan. Most importantly as self‐reflection I offer Pakistan’s move to construct professional knowledge and my own attempt as a teacher educator to aspire towards that goal.
Promoting And Investigating Students’ Uptake Of Reflective Practice: A Pakistan Case, Jane Rarieya
Promoting And Investigating Students’ Uptake Of Reflective Practice: A Pakistan Case, Jane Rarieya
Institute for Educational Development, Karachi
Today reflection is considered one of the essential principles underlying good teaching practice and teacher education. However, this tacit acknowledgement that teachers need to be reflective practitioners and the development of reflective practice has largely been in the West. Teachers in Pakistan and most of the developing world are generally unaware of what the term ‘reflective practice’ means. This article presents findings of a study that was undertaken to observe course participants' uptake of an alternate approach to engaging students in reflective practice during a module offered to students in the Masters programme at the Aga Khan University–Institute for Educational …
Reflective Dialogue: What’S In It For Teachers? A Pakistan Case, Jane Rarieya
Reflective Dialogue: What’S In It For Teachers? A Pakistan Case, Jane Rarieya
Institute for Educational Development, Karachi
Reflective dialogue is still very much an unexplored area in teacher education in Pakistan. This article presents findings of a study that engaged four teachers in the process of reflective dialogue in a school in Karachi, Pakistan. It explores the teachers’ response to the process and possible reasons. It also examines the role played by those who help teachers to become reflective (reflective coaches). Findings indicate that reflective dialogue is an alternative teacher professional development strategy, and that a teacher’s level of reflection is dependent on the teacher’s commitment to teaching, personal reasons and responsibilities. Teaching experience also influences one’s …
An Integrated Approach To School Development In Northern Areas Of Pakistan, Mola Dad Shafa
An Integrated Approach To School Development In Northern Areas Of Pakistan, Mola Dad Shafa
Book Chapters / Conference Papers
I started my career as a primary school teacher working for the Aga Khan Education Service in the Northern Areas of Pakistan. I was one of AKU-IED’s first-cohort Professional Development Teachers (PDTs), and was the only course participant from the Northern Areas of Pakistan in the first MEd course. Having completed the MEd degree from AKU-IED, I went back to my parent institution and was assigned the management of 30 schools. My post-MEd work, which reflects an integrated approach to school development, ranges from conducting professional development programmes for teachers and head teachers, increasing students’ voice in school improvement-related decisions, …
Policy Dialogues On Key Issues In Education, Aku - Ied
In Search Of An Effective School Leadership: Some Lessons From Literature, Muhammad Memon
In Search Of An Effective School Leadership: Some Lessons From Literature, Muhammad Memon
Institute for Educational Development, Karachi
No abstract provided.