سندھی ہندو سیرت نگار

The people of Sindh throughout history remain always very tolerate with one another personal belief. In this context the first person who write down the biography of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) in Sindhi language was a Hindu namely Lal chand amr dino mal jugtiani, his book “Muhammad Rasoolullah P.B.U.H.” published in 1911 A.D. He not only written biography but also condemn those prejudice orientalist as well as native masses against their extremes behavior on pious character and caliber of noble Prophet of Islam. He along with other few notable writers namely Jath mal pursaram guljarani “Paighmbar-i- Islam”. Amar lal vasan mal hingorani “Mir Muhammad Arabi” 1947 A.D and an English book translated by Hout chand dial mal jughtyani “Isalm jo Paighabar” 1931 A.D. In this article researcher highlights their work along with their brief life sketch.

A Comparative Study of Effectiveness of Project and Lecture Methods of Teaching for Achieving Social Studies Curriculum Objectives at Elementary Level

This thesis analyzed the effect of Lecture and Project Methods of Teaching in Rural and Urban Schools on students’ achievements in terms of Social Studies Curriculum Objectives. An Experiment conducted with 8th grade students, of session 2006-2007 studying Social Studies at two Rural and two Urban Government Girls High School, Lahore. Lesson plans of lecture and project methods for the experiment were developed by the researcher, covering five chapters from the Text Book of 8th grade Social Studies. The study was conducted employing Pretest-Posttest Control Group Design, using Matched Subjects of four selected schools of Rural and Urban on Intelligence Test scores and assigned randomly to the lecture and project groups in each selected school. Independent samples t-test was applied on the Intelligence Test scores of students taught through Lecture and Project Methods in Rural and Urban schools to examine significant difference at 0.05 level of significance. The students of the project group were taught by the researcher through Project Method for a period of 14 weeks in Rural and Urban Schools. The students of lecture group were studied from the trained teachers of selected schools through Lecture method. An Achievement Test was used as Pretest and Posttest, consisting 60 Multiple-Choice items measuring the Objectives of Knowledge and Comprehension of Cognitive Domain. Thirty four null hypotheses were tested to analyze data on Achievement Test at 0.05 level of significance. Independent samples t-test was applied on mean gain scores of the lecture and project groups in Rural and Urban Schools on Achievement Test. The results revealed that the project group performed better than lecture group on overall achievement. The students of Urban Schools taught through Project Method were better than the students of Rural Schools taught through project group. The students of project group were more effective as compared to the lecture group in Rural Schools. The results indicated that t-statistics were significant on some Items representing Knowledge and Comprehension. However, the findings of the study suggested that although the Project Method was as effective as the Lecture Method, but the overall students’ achievement of Project Method was better than Lecture Method.