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Time & Location
Time & Location
Date: 21 Jul 2022 (Thursday)
Time: 2- 4:30 pm (HKT) / 11 am - 12:30 pm (PKT)
Venue: Online via ZOOM
About the Event
About the Event
Educational material, society and state are intertwined in such a way that if one intends to discover and learn about a society, a state or a country, one only needs to look at the educational material approved and used in schools. The society and state are mirrored in language and Social Studies/History/Geography textbooks as the content of the textbooks is chosen to form an ideal society according to the changing world and also to preserve the characteristics considered perennial by the state. This session will help participants to discover Pakistan, its people and its culture through educational material/textbooks and how the state of Pakistan is achieving both these objectives. This session will also apprise the participants about the diversity found in Pakistan and how the education material/textbook (mis)represent the diversity (cultural, ethnic, linguistic and religious) and the role of this (mis)representation in shaping pupils’ ideology of Pakistan, its land, culture and people.
About the Speaker
About the Speaker
Dr Ashar Johnson Khokhar is a teacher educator and a teacher trainer. He has been working with primary, elementary and secondary school pupils, teachers and student-teachers supporting them in understanding curriculum and textbooks of language, social studies, history, Islamic education and ethics. His areas of research are identity, citizenship and citizenship education, peace education, social justice, gender, inclusive society, minorities, curriculum policy and textbook analysis. He advocates and works toward informing the policymakers, textbooks writers and approvers and classroom teachers through his research about how educational material/textbooks could transform students and contribute to making Pakistani society an inclusive, multireligious, multicultural and tolerant society.
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