VIEW: Of interventions —Gulmina Bilal Ahmad

Courtesy to "Daily Times"

We are not fighting only a military war. It is a war against mindsets and attitudes that are discriminatory and bigoted. It is actually a war against a paranoid mindset

Comedy of errors or a case of what goes around comes around? For years now, human rights activists have highlighted the plight of the ‘missing persons’. From demonstrations to contacting politicians to even approaching the Supreme Court, the familie...

VIMUKT SHIKSHA

Resisting Schooling

June, 2000 – Issue 8

Inside this Issue

Editor's Note

Notions of Resistance

An Interview with John Holt

Revisiting Deschooling

Growing with Qudrat

Spiritual Learning

'Savages' of North America

Music as Cultural Production

Resisting the Classroom

Teaching as a Subversive Activity

Nai Talim

Give Up Diplomas and Certificates

Learning as Experiencing

Self-Learning Program

Homeschooling Movement

Reclaiming our Learning Instincts

A Tribute to 'Drop-ou...

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TEACHING AS A SUBVERSIVE ACTIVITY

Radical pedagogists, such as Paulo Freire, Neil Postman, bell hooks, and Henry Giroux, challenge the conventional concepts of a classroom teacher and pedagogy vis-à-vis schooling and larger political-economic systems. They argue that teachers must fight the rigidity and conformity of schools and create genuine spaces for learners to explore and develop their diverse capacities and talents. Teachers should also use their teaching power ...

VIEW: Of apologies —Gulmina Bilal Ahmad

Courtesy to "Daily Times"

There is a need for close cooperation not just between the different intelligence agencies and the security forces but, most importantly, between the locals and the agencies. For there is no substitute for local knowledge and information gathering

The army chief has rendered an apology. The apology was made for the loss of 70 lives of Kuki Khel tribe of Tirah Valley in Khyber Agency. The people of the tribe were understanda...

analysis: Kidnapping for ransom: a family’s ordeal —Farhat Taj

Courtesy to "Daily Times"

The Pakistan Army is conducting an operation in Bara, Khyber Agency. Thousands of people of Bara have become IDPs due to the operation. Despite the operation, the Mangal Bagh group is active and kidnapping people for ransom as usual

Various jihadi outfits based in FATA generate revenues through kidnapping for ransom. One of them is Bara-based Lashkar-e-Islam led by Mangal Bagh in Khyber Agency. Vill...

VIEW: Can there be an end to this war? —Daud Khattak

Courtesy to "Daily Times"

If the militants remained on the move with their weaponry, command and control, and plans of fighting intact, then this anti-terror war is not going to come to an end in the foreseeable future

Friday’s attack on a convoy of army soldiers in North Waziristan and the fresh wave of violence in parts of the newly-renamed Khyber Pakhtunkhwa signifies that armed Taliban are still as powerful as they were before the l...

analysis: Paranoid about Pakhtun ethnic identity —Farhat Taj

Courtesy to "Daily Times"

The people of Hazara have the right to demand a separate province in their area, but they have no right to dictate a name of their choice on the overwhelming majority of the Pakhtun

Renaming of the NWFP as
Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa in the 18th constitutional amendment has led to a wave of violence in Hazara Division. Eight people have been killed, including policemen on duty and dozens injured. The PMN-N and t...

VIEW: Collective sickness —Gulmina Bilal Ahmad

Courtesy to "Daily Times"

When we see the brutal face of alleged Islamic practices of the Taliban that subjugates, insults, terrorises and finally kills, we shake our heads in disbelief. We are collectively as a nation in denial

I have been debating with myself on whether to write about the resurgent controversy on the Swat flogging video or not. Much has been written about it. There are people and groups who passionately advocate that it was f...

VIEW: The media mafia —Andleeb Abbas

Courtesy to "Daily Times"

The popular anchorpersons’ power to make or break opinion creates an arrogance in them that is displayed through condescending sneers and mocking jeers, inciting their guests to lose their cool and be reduced to a laughing stock

Extremism in every form and of every nature is equally dangerous. In a society that seems to have lost its balance, most things seem to lose control too easily and too soon. Whether it is religious b...

analysis: A plea for Bara IDPs —Farhat Taj

Courtesy to "Daily Times"

The IDPs request the government to open vocational centres in the camp for training in employable skills like carpentry, masonry, welding, electrical wiring, plumbing, etc. The IDPs also request for vocational centres for income generation and skill development purposes for the women IDPs, like embroidery and tailoring

There are about 4,000
registered and 1,300 unregistered Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) from Bara, ...

analysis: Mohmand IDPs: forced expulsion? —Farhat Taj

Courtesy to "Daily Times"

The IDPs from Mohmand must not be forced to leave the camp. Let us not forget that the people of Mohmand Agency, like people from elsewhere in FATA, are paying the torturous price for the military establishment’s policy of strategic depth
in Afghanistan

About 2,000 registered and 1,000 unregistered Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) from Mohmand Agency in FATA are living in Jalozai camp, Nowshera, for about...