The new trends in learning/teaching English, as a foreign/second language, highlight teachers' professional development (TPD) as essential in bringing about educational reforms through enhancing teachers' subject-content and pedagogical content knowledge, and changing their attitudes and beliefs about their roles and teaching. Therefore, this study focused on exploring English language teachers' (ELTs') professional development (PD) in developing countries; namely Syria and Pakistan. For approaching this phenomenon, the study used qualitative research with a case-study design. Moreover, it applied the auto/biographical approach to get more insights into ELTs' learning experiences by analyzing the stories of two ELTs. Furthermore, it employed cross-case analysis to identify the emerging issues in both contexts (Syria and Pakistan), and to find out some similarities/differences of ELTs' learning experiences between these contexts. The study was conducted in a private secondary English-medium school in Karachi with a Pakistani ELT and me, as a research participant from Syria. Reflective journals, semi-structured interviews, ELTs' auto/biography, documents analysis, informal talks and classroom, observations were used for generating the data for this study. Analyzing the data, some key themes emerged in relation to the process of achieving PD of ELTs. Out of these themes, stories were generated about ELTs' learning journey. Moreover, data resulted out of the two ELTs' cases drew attention to ELTs' unique ways of learning during the journey of PD such as learning in the workplace (informally: by doing, and by reflecting on past experiences and on action/practices), and learning off-site (formally: by attending professional training). Applying the cross-case analysis revealed the commonalities and differences between the two ELTs' professional development. As for the key findings emerged out of the analysis and discussions, they were: a) Significance of ELTs' self-motivation, b) Learning in-service through formal/informal opportunities, c) Impact of schools learning environment (with reference to school cultures and a principal's leadership), and d) Role of family in supporting ELTs' professional development.
عثمان غنی افسوس ہے کہ مشہور صحافی اور قومی آواز کے لائق مدیر جناب عثمان غنی ۲۴؍ اگست کی شب میں انتقال کرگئے، اناﷲ وانا الیہ راجعون۔ مرحوم عرصہ سے بیمار اور کینسر کے موذی مرض میں مبتلا تھے، علاج کے لیے میڈیکل کالج میں داخل تھے، وہیں پیام اجل آگیا، ۲۵؍ اگست کو جمعہ کی نماز کے بعد امین آباد کچہری روڈ کی مرکز والی مسجد میں ان کی پہلی نماز جنازہ مولانا متین میاں فرنگی محلی کی اقتدا میں ادا کی گئی اور دوسری جنازہ کی نماز عیش باغ کی مسجد میں عید گاہ کے نائب امام مولانا خالد رشید فرنگی محلی نے پڑھائی اور عیش باغ کے قبرستان میں سپرد خاک کیے گئے۔ عثمان غنی صاحب کی تعلیم جامعہ ملیہ اسلامیہ دہلی، علی گڑھ مسلم یونیورسٹی اور لکھنو یونیورسٹی میں ہوئی تھی، ان کی صحافتی زندگی کا آغاز علی گڑھ ہی میں ہوگیا تھا جب انہوں نے اپنے بعض ساتھیوں سے مل کر یونیورسٹی ٹائمز نکالا تھا، پھر وہ اردو کے مشہور جریدہ ’’قومی آواز‘‘ سے اس وقت منسلک ہوئے جب وہ مرحوم حیات اﷲ انصاری کی ادارت میں نکلتا تھا، ان کے اور جناب عشرت علی صدیقی کے دور ادارت کے بعد یہ اس کے چیف ایڈیٹر ہوئے لیکن اسی دور میں نامساعد حالات کی بنا پر اخبار بند ہوگیا، اس کے بعد عارضی طور پر انہوں نے ’’قومی خبریں‘‘ کی ادارت سنبھالی، اس کے بعد کسی اور اخبار کی ادارت کی پیش کش قبول نہیں کی۔ عثمان غنی مرحوم کے اداریے پر مغز اور متوازن ہوتے تھے، اردو اور انگریزی دونوں پر انہیں پوری قدرت تھی، سائنس، تاریخ، سیاست اور نئے علوم پر ان کی اچھی نظر تھی، وہ اصلاً سائنس کے طالب علم تھے لیکن ریاضی بھی ان کی دلچسپی کی چیز تھی، ہر موضوع سے متعلق ان کی معلومات تازہ...
This article focuses onthose special attributes of Islām, which distinguishes it from other religions with respect to peacekeeping, i. E., the rules and ethics, which inculcate peace and tranquility in the soul and mind of an individual and society. Islām is the pioneer of all the religions that emphasize upkeeping of peaceful relations between their followers and others without any discrimination. The connotations of the word Islām and the implications of its various synonyms, its ethical teachings, rules and laws_ all convey the message of peace. Therefore, a true believer is supposed to be the one, who is endowed with peace. To sustain harmony in the society, Islām prohibits mischief, tribulations, aggression and violation of human rights, such as freedom of religion and life. Likewise, Islām prohibits undue offences against any religion, defiling religious beliefs and the holy books, derogatory remarks against any sacred and reverend personage, and extortion, theft, robbery, usury, etc. The second discourse of this article deals with the Islamic salutations. The objectives of Sharī‘ah, in this regard, are to promote good will, alleviate alienation of addressees, invite non-believers to Islām and augment peaceful relations and coexistence with others. The last section of this discourse deals with the injunctions, related to the rules and ethics of warfare as instructed by Islām.
In the present thesis, the dilute solutions of succinic acid have been used to investigate the selective leaching of calcareous material in low-grade phosphate rock. The effective parameters on the dissolution rate are reaction temperature, particle size, acid concentration and liquid-solid ratio. The results indicate that succinic acid can be used to selectively dissolve the calcareous material in low-grade phosphate rock as it improves the P 2 O 5 content of the rock and makes it viable as a feed to an acidulation plant. Using the known size particles of the sample, acid concentration and liquid-solid ratio, the influence of different reaction temperatures has been studied in order to elucidate the leaching kinetics of calcareous material in the rock. The results show that the leaching rate of calcareous material increases with increasing temperature. A kinetic model has been suggested to describe the selective leaching process of calcareous material analyzing the kinetic data. The selective leaching curves have been evaluated in order to check the validity of shrinking core models for liquid-solid systems. The experimental data have been tested by graphical and statistical methods and it is found that the leaching of calcareous material in the rock is controlled by the chemical reaction i.e. 1 - ( 1 - x ) 1 / 3 = 1 . 47 ´ 10 6 e - 64 . 92 / RT t . The apparent activation energy of the dissolution process has been found to be 64.92 kJ mol -1 over the reaction temperature range from 313 to 353 K. Such a value of activation energy indicates that the process is a chemically controlled reaction and agrees with the values obtained in the similar research of fluid- solid reaction systems. The agreement between the experimental conversion and the 17values calculated from the suggested empirical equation has been tested, and which is found to be very good. For a comparison study, lactic acid has also been used to study the selective leaching kinetics of calcareous phosphate rock. The effect of acid concentration, liquid/solid ratio, particle size and temperature has been studied in order to expound the leaching kinetics of calcareous material in the rock. It has been found that the leaching rate of calcareous material increases with increasing the acid concentration, liquid/solid ratio and temperature and decreasing particle size. A semi-empirical model has been suggested to illustrate the selective dissolution of calcareous material analyzing the experimental data. The selective leaching curves have been evaluated to test the validity of kinetic models for liquid-solid systems. The kinetic data are analyzed by graphical and statistical methods and it has been found that the dissolution of calcareous material in the rock is controlled by 1 - ( 1 - a ) 1 / 3 = 19 . 1 C 1 . 753 ( L / S ) 1 . 627 D - 0 . 737 e - 42954 chemical . 62 / RT reaction i.e. t . The analysis of the obtained results reveals that the applicability of the suggested model is good and it can work within a certain range for the choice of adjustable parameter values depending on the degree of selective leaching. The results show that the controlling step of the overall process of the heterogeneous reaction is a chemical change. According to the analyzed results, it is recommended that the parameter values for the optimum selective leaching rate are C = 8% v/v, L/S = 7 cm 3 g -1 , T = 318 K, SS = 350 min -1 and D = 0.1255 mm.