Democracy and Education in Pakistan

Autor/in	Nazir, Muhammad
Titel	Democracy and Education in Pakistan
Quelle	In: Educational Review, 62 (2010) 3, S.329-342 (14 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0013-1911
Schlagwörter	Educational Philosophy; Democracy; Focus Groups; Educational Practices; Educational Change; Rural Areas; Foreign Countries; Change Strategies; Democratic Values; Urban Areas; Educational Policy; Barriers; Governance; Politics of Education; Participative Decision Making; Social Influences; Educational History; Teachers; Private Schools; Public Schools; Pakistan + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Bildungsphilosophie; Erziehungsphilosophie; Demokratie; Bildungspraxis; Bildungsreform; Rural area; Ländlicher Raum; Ausland; Lösungsstrategie; Urban area; Stadtregion; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; Education; Educational policy; Financing; Steuerung; Bildung; Erziehung; Finanzierung; Sozialer Einfluss; History of education; Bildungsgeschichte; Lehrer; Lehrerin; Lehrende; Private school; Privatschule; Public school; Öffentliche Schule
Abstract	This paper explores the potential for democratic change in educational practice in Pakistan. Using focus group discussions in urban and rural areas of Sindh and Balochistan, it builds up a picture of educational practices from policy-making to implementation level and identifies the barriers to democratic approaches in education. It suggests that educational practice in Pakistan is characterised by authoritarian and bureaucratic inaction, and collaboration and reflection play little part in decision-making. A "transmission model" is delivered from policy-makers to implementers who replicate it at pedagogical level, and little account is taken of participatory and democratic approaches to education. International literature on democratic approaches to education and on the potential of education to be democratic and to develop democracy in society is explored as a background to the study. (Contains 1 table.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10