Full Description
This book offers a compelling analysis of education's promise to achieve inclusive, pluralistic and sustainable societies. These globally shared challenges are examined through a detailed analysis of the cultural politics of education in postcolonial Pakistan. The analysis provides a window into the ways that the intergenerational traumas of colonialism, neocolonialism, globalisation and forms of extremism continue to present significant challenges for postcolonial Pakistan. Drawing on postcolonial theories and curriculum theory, the author develops a critical discourse analysis of the cultural politics that shapes education in Pakistan. The analysis identifies key elements of this cultural politics such as religious and cultural dynamics, geopolitical challenges, the need to promote unity and cohesion, employing history for nation-building, and gender relations, and the ways in which these elements intersect to shape the possibilities of delivering on the promise of inclusion, pluralism and sustainable development.
Contents
Preface: Navigating through Identity and Inquiry
Acknowledgements
List of Figures and Tables
List of Acronyms
1 Global Challenges and the Local Contexts: Education for Inclusion, Pluralism and Sustainable Futures in Postcolonial Pakistan
1 Contemporary Pakistan and Challenges for Pluralism and Inclusion
2 Pluralism and Pakistani Education Systems
3 The Role of Education Systems in Promoting Pluralism and Inclusion in Pakistan
4 Postcolonial Theories
5 The Cultural Politics of Curriculum
6 Curriculum Theory
7 The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals
8 Critical Discourse Analysis: Methodological Framework
9 Structure of the Book
2 Pakistan: The Advent of a Postcolonial Nation-State
1 Introduction
2 Postcolonial Theories
3 Pakistan: Pre-colonial, Colonial, and Postcolonial History
4 Discussion: Neo-Colonialism and the Cultural Politics of Curriculum in Pakistan
3 Education Systems in Pakistan and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals Framework
1 Introduction
2 Pre-colonial and Colonial Education
3 Education Systems in Contemporary Pakistan
4 The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, Education, and the Possibility of Development in Pakistan
5 Discussion: Education Systems, Curriculum, and the Postcolonial Nation-State
4 In Search of a Sacred Ground: Islam and the Nation-State's Quest for National Identity
1 Introduction
2 Ideological Foundations of the Nation: Finding a Religious Basis for the Secular Institution
3 Managing Diversities: The Textbooks' Approach to Diversity within Islam in Pakistan
4 Ideology and Diversity: The Educational Aim of Tolerance and Opportunities for Pluralism
5 Discussion: Postcolonial Islamo-pastoral Arts of Government and the Nation-State's Quest for National Identity
5 Official Narratives and National Memory: The Construction of History in the Textbooks
1 Introduction
2 Selective Inheritance: Partial Appropriation of the Legacies of Syed Ahmad Khan
3 The Discursive Construction of the Other: Representing the Hindu
4 Nawabadiyat and the Colonial Discourse: Speaking through the Metaphor of the Colonial Masters
5 Discussion: The Discursive Construction of History and Its Implications for Diversity and Pluralism
6 The Cultural Politics of Gender: PSTs and the Challenges for Women's Equality and Fairness
1 Introduction
2 Protecting Women: The Discursive Presentation of Violence against Women
3 Subtle Reproduction: Normalising Patriarchy through Textbooks
4 Gender Parity: Striving for Gender Rights and Empowering Women
5 Discussion: Gender Rights: Negotiating between Tradition and Modernity
7 Building a Better Future: The UN SDGs and Reshaping the Cultural Politics of Education in Pakistan
1 Pakistan's Quest for Discourses on Peace, Respect for Diversity and Inclusion: Reshaping the Cultural Politics of Education
2 The Promise and Limitations of SDG 4.7 in Reimagining the Cultural Politics of Education in Postcolonial Pakistan
Appendix: Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)
References
Index
