The author works independently as a teacher/researcher and is interested in politics of education reforms. He can be reached at imuzaffar@gmail.com
It is important for the stakeholders in education to recognise that more and urgently important aspects of education are escaping our attention
A calculated attempt to understand the relationship between pedagogy and philosophy of mathematics
What sort of beliefs about the nature of mathematics should undergird the curriculum and instruction when we live in a world that requires...
Teaching will never become a profession until teachers assume control of knowledge production, gate-keeping and professional ethics
Compulsory schooling is the only option as there is no other institution solely available to teach the full range of civic virtues for a better...
The participants of the national conference on education, held immediately after independence in November 1947, thought of Pakistan as a modern,...
Human civilization has not always entertained the idea of universal education. Indeed, it has only been in the last three hundred years or so that...
"For heaven’s sake why?" an educator friend retorted on my suggestion that the growth in private schools, low cost or not, was not a sign of...
In the last two articles on the examinations, I have argued that Pakistan’s examination system at the secondary and intermediate levels is...
Examinations work like magnets with which the instruction in the classrooms must align itself in order to be judged as ‘effective’. All...
