Friday, September 3, 2010

Institute for Educational Development, PakistanIt focused on the ‘Role of Higher Education Institutions in Promoting Research and Scholarship Culture:


t focused on the ‘Role of Higher Education Institutions in Promoting Research and Scholarship Culture: Achievements, Challenges, and Future Directions'. The seminar aimed at engaging key stakeholders of the higher education institutions in critical dialogues on promoting research and scholarship culture in higher education institutions in Pakistan . Around 40 faculty members and students of various departments of Peshawar University participated in the seminar. While presenting a critical review of existing practices of teaching and research in the developing countries, Dr Memon emphasised the need to produce indigenous knowledge, which can help the developing countries to become knowledge societies for contributing towards knowledge economy. Higher education institutions can play an active role in transforming societies by emphasizing intellectual engagement of their faculty and students in critical issues of innovation, development and dissemination. He felt that there is a strong need for the Higher Education Institutions to shift their research agendas from mono-disciplinary to multi and interdisciplinary research and learning processes. Ms Zubeda Bana, the Project Coordinator, also participated in the seminar.

The seminar audience also raised many pertinent issues, such as issue of relevance of knowledge, pluralistic society, management of research, role of leadership in supporting research and role of HEC in promoting research culture in the institutions. The participants appreciated Alvin Toffler's wisdom (1928) that ‘The illiterates of the 21 st century will not be those who can't read and write, but those who can't learn, unlearn, and relearn'.

source:www.aku.edu

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