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The Role of School Headteacher in Empowering Teachers: A Case Study

Thesis Info

Author

Swai, Naomi V.

Department

Institute for Educational Development, Karachi

Program

MEd

Institute

Aga Khan University

Institute Type

Private

City

Karachi

Province

Sindh

Country

Pakistan

Thesis Completing Year

2002

Thesis Completion Status

Completed

Subject

Education

Language

English

Added

2021-02-17 19:49:13

Modified

2024-03-24 20:25:49

ARI ID

1676728002193

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In the mid-1980s, teacher empowerment emerged as a strategy of school reform for teachers. This notion was a response towards the falling quality of education as a result of changes and demands in the educational field. However, the implementation of teacher empowerment has not been pronounced in the developed countries. This study associated teacher empowerment with teacher motivation, classroom autonomy, and increased teaching expertise. A small-scale case study was conducted in Karachi, Pakistan, to examine the role of the school head teacher in facilitating teacher empowerment in a government school context. A qualitative inquiry was used to seek information from one government secondary school head teacher and three teachers of the same school. This process was done through in-depth interviews, observations, document analysis, and informal conversations. The study found that the contextual realities together with human factors were critical in enhancing teacher empowerment in the school. In this case, the processes involved in enhancing teacher empowerment were constrained by the centralized education system that turned school head teacher an implementer of curriculum decisions made at the state and district level. The results were that the school head teacher remained a government representative in the school in which her leadership strategies were primarily used to control teachers. The prominent feature of the study was the head teachers understanding of educational change process that focus on teacher empowerment for school improvement. Several other factors were found to be critical in realizing teacher empowerment: an atmosphere of support and trust, teachers assuming leadership roles through administrator encouragement, diverse, active, and self directed learning experiences connected to teacher work context and expertise, integration of efforts to improve classroom teaching and learning. The study urges the educational policy to rethink school leadership structures, roles, together with skills and knowledge of school headteachers and teachers in realizing teacher empowerment in schools.
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شیخ غلام قادر گرامیؔ

گرامیؔ، غلام قادر، شیخ
حضرت گرامیؔ
ہندوستان کے کہنہ مشق اور فارسی کے مسلم الثبوت شاعر حضرت گرامی نے ۲۶؍ مئی ۱۹۲۷؁ء کو چند روزہ علالت کے بعد اس دنیائے فانی کو الوداع کہا، مرحوم پنجاب کے ضلع جالندھر کے رہنے والے تھے، فارسی شاعری سے ان کو فطری لگاؤ تھا، کچھ دنوں امرتسر کے ایک اسلامی مدرسہ میں معلم رہے، پھر اعلیٰ حضرت نظام سابق مرحوم کی قدر شناس نگاہ نے ان کو تاکا اور اپنے دربار کا فارسی شاعر مقرر کیا، اخیر عمر میں حیدرآباد سے جالندھر آکر جب قیام کیا تو ان کی صحبت اور فیض اثر سے متعدد نوجوان اردو شاعر پیدا ہوئے، جن میں ابولاثر حفیظؔ اور سالکؔ کے نام سب سے اونچے ہیں، ڈاکٹر اقبال نے بھی جب سے فارسی میں کہنا شروع کیا، ان سے استفادہ میں دریغ نہیں کیا، زبان کے معاملہ میں وہ ان کی سند تھے، افسوس ہے کہ اب کشورِ ہند ایسے یگانہ نامور کے وجود سے خالی ہوگیا۔
مرحوم سے صرف ایک دفعہ آل انڈیا شعراء کانفرنس دہلی منعقدہ ۱۹۲۳؁ء میں ملاقات ہوئی تھی، بے حد ملنسار، متواضع اور مرنجان آدمی تھے، ایک سال پہلے تک ان کے اکثر خطوط میری عزت بڑھاتے رہتے تھے اور کبھی کبھی معارف کے صفحوں کو بھی اپنے نغموں سے معمور کیا کرتے تھے، مولانا شبلی مرحوم کے تعلق اور ان سے حیدرآباد کی یک جائی اور شاعری کی ہم پیشگی کا اثر یہ تھا کہ وہ مولانا مرحوم کی اس یادگار کو بزرگانہ محبت کی نگاہوں سے دیکھا کرتے تھے، افسوس کہ یہ فیض اب ہمیشہ کے لئے بند ہوگیا۔
(سید سليمان ندوی، جون ۱۹۲۷ء

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Productivity of Sunflower Hybrids As Influenced by Sulphur-Nitrogen Nutrition and Varying Plant Population

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