Teacher Professional Beliefs and Identity: An Insight into the Professional Development of Primary School Teachers in Pakistan
This research study analyzed the relationship between teacher professional beliefs and identity of primary school teacher for their professional in Pakistan. A representative sample of 342 primary school teachers were randomly selected from all the primary school teachers of District Malakand, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Pakistan. Data was collected from sample teachers through a questionnaire developed by the researcher. The questionnaire has been structured into two principal sections, which are pro...
Relationship of Non-Cognitive Skills and Academic Achievements of Undergraduate University Students
Introduction: Universities prepare students to play their role in the society and equip students with cognitive and non-cognitive skills. Having the significance of non-cognitive skills in mind, the study was designed to investigate the non-cognitive skills of undergraduate students at university level. Therefore, the objectives of the study were to measure non-cognitive skills of university students and to measure the relationship of non-cognitive skills and academic performance among them.M...
Professional Qualification: An Analysis of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa New Teachers’ Recruitment Policy
The purpose of this study was to analyze the Government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa current teachers’ recruitment policy decision by replacing pre-service professional qualification with nine-month induction programme at school level. This paper explores this policy decision on the basis of critical review of national education policies from First All Pakistan National Conference 1947 to National Education Policy 2017 and available literature in the field. The findings of the study were that ...
Women Entrepreneurship and Empowerment in Pakistan: Gender, Culture, Education and Policy in Broader Perspective
Abstract This study intended to explore the gender, cultural and professional aspects of rural women entrepreneurs in Pakistan in broader perspective which constitute a contextual framework. Numerous aspects such as government policies, cultural norms, women empowerment, entrepreneurial capacity and orientation, which have shaped women entrepreneurship in Pakistan, were discussed in detail. The literature review was carried out based on research questions. Themes based on contextual framework...
Exploring Tensions between English Teachers' Core Beliefs and Peripheral Beliefs in Teaching Reading
The study is an attempt to explore the tensions that leads to a gap between core and peripheral instructional beliefs leading to the classroom practices of Secondary School English Teachers in the cultivation of students' reading skills. Following qualitative phenomenological approach, the study was designed to explore the live experiences through interview protocols from experienced teachers teaching English at Secondary school level. The collected data were analyzed following interpretative...
Learning Social Entrepreneurship through Technology
The purpose of the study was to analyze the learning method of social entrepreneurship adopted through a movie Padman. Numerous stakeholders such as family, community, social activists, entrepreneurs and policy makers were the target audience. The movie narrated the story a poor family residing in rural area and presented their social, cultural and financial problems where a social constraint was a cause of health risk to women. The problem was social in nature. It was converted in an opportu...
An Eclectic Theory of Entrepreneurship: Three Level Analysis for Developing Entrepreneurship Policy in Pakistan
Abstract The study was intended to recommend guidelines for developing entrepreneurship policy in Pakistan. For this purpose An Eclectic Theory of Entrepreneurship was used as theoretical frame work to analyze empirical research studies and available reports at three different levels. At micro level, low literacy rate was found to be foremost requirement for developing entrepreneurship. Lack of knowledge based economic system was found to be the center of problem at meso level. At macro ...
An Experimental Study of Collaborative Instructional Strategy (CIS) for Teaching Mathematics at Primary level in Pakistan
Modern concept of education is based on students’ centered learning approaches where collaborative instructional strategy is an emerging approach. It has been tested in different subjects and its effectiveness has been proved. Therefore, this experimental study investigated the effects of Collaborative Instructional Strategy (CIS) on mathematics achievement of fifth grade students. The experiment was conducted at a Government school in District Swat, Pakistan using pre-test post-test comp...
The Nature of Difficulties in Learning English by the Students at Secondary School level in Pakistan
This study was a comparative investigation into the nature of difficulties in learning English by the secondary school students of Provincial and Federal government schools in N.W.F.P (Khyber Pukhtunkhwa). The objectives of the study were (1)To find out the level of difficulties of secondary school students of Provincial and Federal government schools of N.W.F.P (Khyber Pukhtunkhwa) in tenses, active and passives voices, direct and indirect narrations, conjunctions, prepositions, articles...
The Role of Multiple Literacies in Developing Interdisciplinary Research
The classification of knowledge into different disciplines is not to distinct knowledge of one domain from the other as these are the parts of a whole but to make it easy, and to provide space for development and promotion of knowledge. Interdisciplinary research provides the opportunity to study different domains of knowledge from single perspective so that to reach to an eclectic picture of the phenomenon. Results showed that interdisciplinary research contributes a lot in promoting interdi...
The Interplay between Gender and Student Classroom Participation A Case Study of University Of Swat
A number of research studies have found differences between male and female students’ classroom participation. Some researchers link these differences to students’ gender, asserting that female students’ low participation is the result of male students’ active classroom participation. The purpose of this qualitative case study was to explore differences between students’ gender and their classroom participation and to investigate the ways through which students gender manifest itsel...
The Impact of the Indian Movie Three Idiots (2009) on Attitudes to Education
Developments in technology can support the generation of tools to enhance teaching and learning. In a digital world, teaching without technology is now considered incomplete. Film is one of the most effective tools used for propagating ideas and engaging people in reflections on events and philosophies of life. Films are therefore an influential channel for student learning. Students enjoy watching films, imitating movie characters and can learn languages and scientific concepts through ...
The Effects of E-Reading and Printed Document Reading on Students’ Comprehension and Retention Power
The study attempted to measure the effects of e-reading (reading from the screen of a laptop, tablet or other electronic display) and printed documents reading. Objectives of the study were to measure the effects of ereading materials on students’ comprehension and their retention power, to investigate the effects of traditional printed documents reading on students’ comprehension and their retention power and measure the differences between the effects of both types of readings (printed ...
The Effects of Authentic Pedagogical Practices on Students' Educational Performance and Retention Power
In-practice traditional lecture, discussion and assignments based pedagogical practices play its role in students’ learning and retention power. The current study intends to investigate whether authentic pedagogical practices are more effective in terms of enhancing students’ educational performances and retention power or the traditional pedagogical practices. Therefore, this study focused on investigating the effects of authentic and traditional pedagogical practices on students’ educ...
Test Anxiety: Gender and Academic Achievements of University Students
Objectives: To investigate undergraduate students’ test anxiety level; to measure the correlation between undergraduate students test anxiety with their academic achievement; and to measure the correlation of undergraduate students’ test anxiety from the perspective of their gender. Methodology: Students of eight departments at University of Swat constituted the study sample. Among these, 126 undergraduate level students were selected through simple random sampling technique. The to...
