سردار پٹیل
افسوس ہے کہ گذشتہ ۱۵؍ دسمبر کو ہماری قومی عمارت کا ایک آہنی ستون گرگیا، اور سردار پٹیل ہم سے جدا ہوگئے، ملک و قوم کی راہ میں ان کی بڑی قربانیاں اور بڑی خدمات ہیں، وہ جنگ آزادی کے نامور ہیرو گاندھی جی کے دست راست اور جدید ہندوستان کے رکن اعظم تھے، گو قومی نقطہ نظر سے ان کے بعض خیالات صحیح نہیں تھے، جس سے ملک کو نقصان پہنچا، لیکن اس غلطی کے احساس اور اس کے برے نتائج دیکھنے کے بعد انہوں نے اس کی تلافی کی بھی پوری کوشش کی، فرقہ پرستی کی بھڑکتی ہوئی آگ کو انہی نے بجھایا، اور نہرو لیاقت پیکٹ کو انہی نے کامیاب بنایا، اگر ان کی تائید حاصل نہ ہوتی، تو ہندوستان اور پاکستان کی اقلیتوں پر دونوں ملکوں کی سرزمین تنگ ہوجاتی، اور آخر میں وہ اقلیتوں کے تحفظ، ملک میں قیامِ امن و پاکستان سے مفاہمت کے مسائل میں بڑی حد تک جواہر لال کے ہم نوا ہوگئے تھے، اور ملک کے ضبط و نظام اور امن و امان کا دارومدار انہی پر تھا، ان کا سب سے نمایاں وصف ان کا کوہ وقار عزم و استقلال تھا، وہ بولتے کم تھے، مگرجو کچھ کہتے یا چاہتے تھے، اس کو پورا کر کے رہتے تھے، ان کا سب سے بڑا کارنامہ ریاستوں کا انضمام ہے، جو انگریزوں سے بھی نہ ہوسکا تھا، انہوں نے تاریخ میں پہلی مرتبہ ہندوستان کو ایک متحدہ ملک بنایا آیندہ ہندوستان میں اس عزم و ارادہ کا انسان مشکل سے پیدا ہوگا ، اور اس کی تاریخ میں ان کانام ہمیشہ روشن رہے گا۔
(شاہ معین الدین ندوی، جنوری ۱۹۵۱ء)
Before the advent of Islam, women were living in worst conditions during the Era of Ignorance. Daughters were buried alive. Women were openly sold in the market. A woman was just a source of enjoyment for males and nothing else. She had no basic rights. Even she had no share in inheritance. In human history, it is Islam that for the first time gave due respect to woman by providing her basic rights and proper status. Islam believes in equality of men and women – ‘Equality’ does not mean ‘to become identical’. Women’s rights in Islam pertain to Spiritual, Economic, Educational and Legal Rights. A woman can adopt any profession, she wants. Thus, she has got full freedom to live a happy and peaceful life. Unfortunately, there are many people who believe that because Islam gives men the right of having authority over their wives, therefore, men are superior to women and that men have priority over women in all matters. The fact is that according to Islamic teachings, men are not superior to women; and so women are not superior to men. There is no gender discrimination in Islam. Allah Almighty states very clearly in the Holy Quran that superior in His eyes are only those who have more taqwa (fear of Almighty Allah).
The study has been conducted in order to understand the role of the principal with regard to teacher educators' professional development in the context of teachers' training college. The purpose of this study was to find the correlation between leadership role and professional development of teacher educators. The quality and effectiveness of teachers training programmes has been a matter of continuous debate in Pakistan, as the trainings provided by teacher educators have not generally been found to be satisfactory. Being aware of the impact of leadership style on the performance of staff, I wanted to explore the principal's perceptions and practices in regard to teacher educators' professional development. This study was conducted in the qualitative mode, using the semi-structured interviews were used with the principal and two teacher educators. Trustworthiness of the data has been maintained through observations, document analyses, informal discussions and a reflective journal. Core characteristics and correlate frame work used by Foster, Loving and Shumate (2000) in their study of Effective Principals, Effective Professional Development Schools has been adapted to analyze the data. The findings of the study revealed that the principal assumes a managerial role rather than an academic leader's role, by following the order of the higher authorities and fulfilling the programme requirements. Though the principal and teacher educators have perception of professional development, for them, the strategies are based on individual approach. Thus, in reality the principal neither holds the concept of continuous professional development, nor is capable of organizing, planning, and implementing in-house strategies for teacher educators' professional development. The findings of the study also revealed that the principal has to confront some issues in institutionalizing professional development culture in the college which reduces the principal's empowerment, some of these issues are: time constraint, political influence, work culture, and budgeting. Implications have been made to overcome the issues. For improving the present situation, it has been suggested that the principal should involve herself in acquiring Educational Leadership and Management training and update her knowledge about professional development in order to enhance her role as an academic leader.