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Some challenges in teaching citizenship in an Islamic context: Pakistan Studies teachers’ perspectives and practices in relation to teaching about identity

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posted on 2023-05-19, 15:14 authored by Muhammad, Y, Peter BrettPeter Brett
In Pakistan, the school subjects of Social Studies, Civics and Pakistan Studies are explicitly used to construct Pakistani national identity and young people’s sense of citizenship. This article draws upon interviews with 27 Pakistan Studies teachers from a town in the Punjab region of Pakistan. The interviews aimed to explore the teachers’ perceptions and teaching practices with respect to teaching about regional, national and global identity content within the area of Pakistan Studies. The research found that in seeking to reconcile conflicting binary policy discourses most of the teachers continued to subscribe to relatively traditional pedagogical practices constrained by an examination system that overwhelmingly assesses students’ knowledge of textbook content. Most of the teachers had more inclination towards developing students’ national identity based upon Sunni Islamic values rather than multi-layered identities, reflecting more localized cultural diversity or global outlooks and viewpoints.

History

Publication title

Citizenship Teaching & Learning

Volume

12

Pagination

279-298

ISSN

1751-1917

Department/School

Faculty of Education

Publisher

Intellect Ltd.

Place of publication

United Kingdom

Rights statement

© 2017 Intellect Ltd

Repository Status

  • Restricted

Socio-economic Objectives

Teaching and curriculum not elsewhere classified