Today, I gave a talk at the Center for Study of Law & Religion at
@EmoryUniversity
. My topic was,
“Religious Nationalism in Pakistan: Political and financial motivations for the use of religion in schools.”
Thank you
@EmoryLaw
faculty for an engaging discussion on an imp issue.
فَبِأَىِّ ءَالَآءِ رَبِّكُمَا تُكَذِّبَانِ
“So which of the favors of your Lord would you deny?”
— Al Quran (55:25)
I’m blessed with a beautiful adopted baby girl, Siddiqa Akhtar Chughtai.
My ancestors made a small house in this location, in 1825. My dada last rebuilt it in 1947.
But in 1972,my family had to sell the house due to hardship. Fifty yrs later, in 2022, my father has bought it to bring it back in the family.
200 yrs of ancestry: Mochi Gate, Old Lahore
Their bus collided with an oil tanker. People, badly injured, were stuck inside. Shahid Bhatti pushed his wife & daughter out through broken glass.
Even though he realized the high risk of an explosion, him & his son, stayed inside the bus to help other people get out.. (1/3)
Article 31(2)(a): “The state shall endeavour, as respects the Muslims of Pakistan... to make teaching of the Holy Quran and Islamiyat compulsory, to encourage and facilitate the learning of Arabic language and to secure correct and exact printing & publishing of the Holy Quran.”
Please cite the relevant article of the constitution. The Federal legislative list limits Federal Govt’s role in education to: “Education as respects Pakistani students in foreign countries and foreign students in Pakistan.”
Today, Grade 9 Physics students took their first exam testing conceptual understanding, not rote memorization.
Question paper provided formulas, so students focus on application rather than cheating.
Congratulations to Fed Board of Intermediate &Secondary Edu for this success.
پاکستان میں دو قسم کے طبقات ہیں۔ بدترین حالت یہ ہے کہ اشرافیہ اِس طبقاتی تقسیم کا مذاق اُڑا کر لطف اندوز ہوتی ہے۔ اِسی وجہ سے ہمیں ایک پاکستان کی ضرورت ہے۔
ایک نصاب- ایک قوم۔
آج ہم نے یکساں قومی نصاب کے ماتحت گریڈ 8-6 کے لئے تاریخ کے نصاب کو مکمل کیا ہے۔
کمیٹی میں بہت زیادہ اختلاف رہا، لیکن سب اس بات ہر متفق تھے کہ ہم پاکستان کے بچوں کو مزید پروپیگنڈا یا جھوٹ نہیں سیکھائیں گے۔
میں منسٹر شفقت محمود صاحب کی قیادت پر انکی مشکور ہوں۔
@Shafqat_Mahmood
I was part of the curriculum writing process, as were 70 other experts from all four provinces, AJK and GB. Plus private schools & madrasahs, all made this curriculum together over a few months.
This article has several errors presented as fact. Sad.
@AsadAToor
@Shafqat_Mahmood
#Pakistan
’s provinces should vigorously resist the regressive plan being thrust upon the nation by ideologues that have usurped power in Islamabad. Else Pakistan will end up as the laughing stock of South Asia, left behind even by Arab countries.
The government’s move to, in effect, bring the madressah to public and private schools is similar to its recent attempt to integrate radical outfits into mainstream electoral politics.
An old Pakistani Parsi lady said to me, when I was in school I had to study Christianity. There was no other option. My daughters studied Islamiat in school.
But for the first time, my grandchildren will study their own religion. Per Pakistan's Constitution. Because of
#SNC
.
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Host raised a concern that why Nazraa & memorization of Hadeeths are included?
Dr. Mariam explained that in Constitution *all* parties agreed to include teaching of Nazraa Quran to Muslim students, in a democratic parliamentary system you can't overlook this demand.
It is a momentous day for SNC.
First 500 Madaris, 36,500 madrasa kids, spread over 20 cities, got SNC textbooks for primary grades.
Madrasa kids will study science and mathematics for the first time, like any other schoolchild.
#watankimitti
#aikNisab
@Shafqat_Mahmood
Pre 1-5 grades single national Curriculum is now available on our website. This curriculum is prepared after unprecedented consultative process with every stake holder. feedbacks & suggestions are welcome.
@Shafqat_Mahmood
Here is the link
Meanwhile, today we finalized the Social Studies, Grade 5 textbook based on Single National Curriculum.
Building consensus across provinces, ideologies, worldview is hard but alhumdulliah so rewarding.
May Allah guide all working towards a more equal Pakistan.
@Shafqat_Mahmood
He was starting college at
@UMassAmherst
, a top university in the US
What a loss and incredible act of
#heroism
درد دل کے واسطے پیدا کیا انسان کو
ورنہ طاعت کے لئےکچھ کم نہ تھے کروبیاں
As per Madrassah reforms & Single National Curriculum in Pakistan, 36K Madrasah's will be registered with govt.
Approx 4 million students studying in Madarasas will appear in Federal board exams, hence they will be eligible to qualify for jobs which previously they weren't.
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“Much of the criticism 2 Islamic Studies curriculum is based on r unfair biases,negative stereotypes &preconceived notions.. prejudiced view of religion/legacy of our colonial past that still holds some of r most popular academics intellectually hostage.”
Hard to comment when people cannot distinguish between basic terms such as Qirat, Nazira and Hifz. The claim that SNC mandates Hifz of entire Quran by Grade 5 is incorrect.
Unfor, fixation on this topic alone prevented discussion of anything else, within or outside Islamiyat.
@glueball10
If that’s true, of course it should be opposed.
@MariamChughtai
made it seem as if it wasn’t, & as we don’t have access to the document, it’s hard for us to know.
#AikNisab
will see a floor, not a ceiling.
A floor of learning standards below which no student will fall, irrespective of being a public, private or madrasah student.
@Shafqat_Mahmood
Dr Mariam explained 400 people across Pak representing every federating unit of Pak incl GB & AJK participated in formulating a single national curriculum.
This is the first time in the history of Pak that such a democratic process was adopted to formulate the curriculum.
(1)
Moments later, the bus exploded killing everyone inside. His wife & daughter watched.
The wife, 80% burned, died in the hospital. Their 12-yo daughter, also burned, lives to tell this story.
Shahid Bhatti & family were going to drop off his son to the airport… (2/3)
یکساں قومی نصاب کے خلاف ایک تازہ ویڈیو گردش میں ہے۔
جس میں ایک سکول کی پرنسپل صاحبہ دعویٰ کرتی دکھائی دیتی ہیں۔کہ ان کے پاس موجود عربی قاعدہ کے مطابق کلاس سوئم کی اسلامیات میں تحریر کلمہ شہادت (نعوذبااللہ) نا درست اور تبدیل شدہ ہے…
(۱/۲)
He taught Political Science at the Lahore School of Economics in 1996.
It was in his course that I learned how history textbooks were tampered with & education used as a political tool.
His teaching had a profound impact on our entire class and led to my interest in education.
Yes, I have it in my to-read list already. May comment on it later. But one thing got my attention. Why is Dr.
@MariamChughtai
thanking Shafqat Mehmood, for her love for the field? Is he the same
@Shafqat_Mahmood
? I don’t think he ever taught anywhere. Interesting though!
کل تمام بڑے شہروں میں کئی گھنٹے بجلی نہیں تھی۔بعض ترقی یافتہ ممالک میں رات کے وقت بجلی بند رہنے سے بڑے پیمانے پر لوٹ مار ہو جاتی ہیں۔
لیکن اکثر لوگ پرامن رہے کہ ہر کوئی محفوظ تھا۔
میرے خیال میں اِس کی وجہ یہ ہے کہ ہم مغرب کی انفرادیت پسندی کی بجائے اجتماعیت پسند معاشرہ ہیں۔
Proof against
#FakeNews
being spread regarding SNC, Biology textbooks, and role of Ulema Board.
1) There are no Biology textbooks in the SNC.
2) Ulema Board has no mandate over science and math.
3) Qaris are not mandated as teachers
#AikNisab
#inshallah
یکساں قومی نصاب کے حوالے سے پھیلائے جانے والی غلط معلومات کے حوالے سے وزارت تعلیم کی طرف سے جاری کردہ پرہس ریلیز۔ یکساں قومی نصاب کے خلاف کچھ عناصر ذاتی مفادات کی خاطر باقاعدہ مہم چلا رہے ہیں۔ ان کے اعتراضات اور تحفظات بے بنیاد اور غلط اطلاعات پر مبنی ہیں ۔ وزارت تعلیم
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On the question of what student learning objectives will b achieved by teaching Nazraa, Dr Mariam responded:
•Kids will learn Nazraa in the school rather parents hiring Qaris or sending them to Madrassah
•Complaints of sexual molestation can also be addressed or reduced
عرض ہے کہ تحریر کردہ کلمہ شہادت صحیح بخاری کا سند یافتہ اور تمام مکاتب فکر کے علماء کا تائید و تصدیق شدہ ہے۔ اور سب کی متفقہ رائے سے درج ہوا۔
الزام تراشی سے پہلے درست ذرائع سے تصدیق ضرور کر لینی چاہیے۔
پاکستان تحریک انصاف کے "دو نہیں ایک پاکستان" کے منشور کے تحت، دو سال کے ہوم ورک کےبعد، آج پنجاب کابینہ نے صوبے میں "Single National Curriculum" لاگو کرنے کی منظوری دے دی ہے۔
اس سے پرائیویٹ اور پبلک سیکٹر کے نصاب میں تضادات ختم ہوں گے اور تمام بچوں کے تدریسی ٹارگٹ ایک جیسےہوں گے!
Thank you. Takes character to stand by what is right.
There is plenty room for revision in the SNC. But there is also a lot of noise based on selective reading of Model Textbooks.
#aikNisab
Deleting my tweet after
@umaraqti
thread about the imagery of SNC books. I saw pictures that depict girl kids not wearing hijab etc too.
There’s no harm in accepting a mistake/misunderstanding if there has been one.
(We aren’t talking about the SNC written content here)
Dr Nayyar says, “this is all to bring only 3 million madressah students into the mainstream of education.”
But what if these were 3 million rich kids of Pakistan?
کیونکہ یہ ۳۰ لاکھ امیروں کے نہیں غریبوں کے بچے ہیں ؟
#AikNisab
@Shafqat_Mahmood
For every academic only criticizing the
#SNC
, there are several more, behind the scenes, being part of the solution.
Thank you Dr. Soufia Siddiqi for setting the record straight.
I asked my brother before his residency, why do you want to be a pathologist?
He replied, because I can do more for
#Pakistan
that way.
May Allah keep all healthcare workers in His protection.
#siblings
#doctors
@ChughtaiLab
In 2000, she retired as Prof of Pharmacology from Allama Iqbal Medical College
In 2009, she went back to school and secured a Masters from
@RiceUniversity
And today, she completed her LLB degree from University of London 🎉
Congratulations, Mom!
#WomenOfCourage
@LondonAlumni
مراعات یافتہ اور پسماندہ سکولوں کے مابین فرق کو مکمل طور پر ختم نہیں کیا جا سکتا ۔ لیکن پاکستان کے معاملے میں یہ یقینا کم کیا جا سکتا ہے۔
یہ ایک بہت مشکل معائدہ ہے۔
ہمارے ملک کے بچے ہم سے توقع رکھتے ہیں کہ ہم اس چیلنج کا مقابلہ کریں۔
#aikNisab
⭐️🇵🇰⭐️🇵🇰⭐️🇵🇰⭐️🇵🇰
National Curriculum of Pakistan, signed off by experts from all provinces, has been notified.
Pakistan’s first Core Curriculum, for Grades 1-12 and Early Years, is complete.
⭐️🇵🇰⭐️🇵🇰⭐️🇵🇰⭐️🇵🇰
It’s unfortunate that both Drs Hoodbhoy and Nayyar are criticising a document in national and international publications before its release. No way for people to judge for themselves. Causing confusion and chaos for what?
Has the single national curriculum (snc) document been released? Not seen it. How do I judge the veracity/falsehood and or strength/weakness of any argument without having access to the document. Kantian noumena being debated...for most of us.
Single National Curriculum DRAFT is now ready for feedback!
Teachers, Students, Educators, Citizens are all invited to participate.
VISIT and click on Feedback.
Deadline (first round): Dec 20
#AikNisab
When people try to damage the SNC with
#FakeNews
, the only thing they damage is their own credibility.
Thank you Minister Sb for clarifying officially.
#aikNisab
This weekend, join us in a live discussion on Pakistan's educational policies."The History of Education Reforms in Pakistan: Debates about Curriculum, Pedagogy and Textbooks" with
@MariamChughtai
Saturday
August 8th, 2020
8 PM
on
That’s wonderful!
National Curriculum Council is keen to partner with you to take this initiative to scale. We can help offer the same CS content in regional languages too.
Our children are very intelligent. If we can bridge the language barrier, it’ll be a game changer.
“In Google’s report of their IT certification course, 61% did not have 4yr degree, typically complete program in under 6 months, and earn a median annual wage of $54,760.”
Let’s rethink Technical Education
@AliSalmanPTI
for a stronger
@PunjabTevta
I just finished training for
#education
officers in
#Faisalabad
. The divide b/w policy makers & practitioners has left me beyond depressed. We talk abt test scores, teachers talk abt kids dying in school of snakebites, electric shocks, falling ceiling fans.
#shameonus
#pakistan
Great suggestion. If they invite me to work on Grades 6-8 curriculum I will push for it.
Coding will be to this generation what typing was to the previous one.
Punjab Cabinet approves Single National Curriculum for Punjab. We will be implementing this in School Year 2021 InshAllah. This would be from grade one through grade five.
Question: We would like to offer Ms. Fatima Razzaq an advisory role on matters of gender and religious inclusion in the SNC, particularly as we update textbooks from Year 1.
Will you accept
@FatimaRazzaq20
?
Recent recipient of Diversity and Pluralism in Media Award 2021 for her story "A textbook case of prejudice' which investigates how SNC would fuel hatred towards religious minorities in Pakistan, Fatima Razzaq is coming on the podcast to discuss her story.
@FatimaRazzaq20
“ہمارے ہاں تعلیمی سال کا آغاز غلط وقت پر کیا جاتا ہے۔ اور اس کا بڑا نقصان یہ کہ بچہ اوائل عمری سے ہی ”چھوٹی موٹی کرپشن“ سیکھنے لگتا ہے۔ جھوٹ بولنا سیکھتا ہے۔ کام کو ٹالنا سیکھتا ہے۔ اور یہ سب آگے چل کر بچے کی شخصیت پر کتنا منفی اثر ڈالتے ہیں۔”
.Excellent article & recommendations
تاریخ کا مطالعہ بتاتا ہے کہ سیاسی سمجھ بوجھ کا مہنگی اور اعلی یونیورسٹیوں میں حاصل کردہ تعلیم سے کوئی لازمی تعلق نہیںں۔ یہ سمجھنا کہ صرف عظیم اداروں سے فارغ التحصیل افراد ، کمتر تعلیمی مواقع کے حامل عوام پر حکومت کرنے کا حق رکھتے ہیں، محض ایک مفروضہ ہے۔
@umar7181
He says we shouldn't be taught about Jihad. See this from England's history curriculum. Apparently they are teaching students how to become crusaders.
Src:
We must engage with conversations on our traumatic past. Other nations have.
But facing history requires just as much courage as it needs sensitivity.
No one has ever managed to teach anyone anything by humiliating them.
#EastPakistan
#Bangladesh
#civilwar
#LUMS
@facinghistory
انیسویں صدی میں طلبا میں ٹیم سپرٹ کے لئے اسکول یونیفارم متعارف کروائے گئے۔ آج یہ کلاس روم میں امیر اور غریب کو ایک جیسا رکھتے ہیں۔ تاہم ، اسکولوں کو یونیفارم ایک سے زیادہ دکانداروں کو بنانے کی اجازت دینی چاھئے ورنہ یہ والدین پر ایک اضافی بوجھ بن جاتے ہیں۔
سیاسی وابستگی سے ہٹ کر اچھے کام کی تعریف شعور کی پختگی کی جانب مثبت قدم ہے۔
Appreciation of good work despite political differences demonstrates both intellect and maturity
#aikNisab
رٹہ سسٹم کی بنیادی وجہ نصاب سے زیادہ امتحانی نظام ہے۔ اگر امتحان میں بچے کی تصوراتی سوجھ بوجھ سے زیادہ یادداشت کو پرکھا جائے تو رٹہ سسٹم رائج رہے گا۔
یکساں قومی نصاب میں بچوں کی تصوراتی سوجھ بوجھ کو بڑھاوا دینے کے ساتھ ساتھ امتحانی اصلاح پر بھی کام ہو رہا ہے۔
This is not an election between
#Trump
and
#Biden
.
It is essentially a referendum For or Against Trump.
My prediction:
Trump will win another term, with a margin wider than before.
#USElection2020
“One with an unbiased review of the curriculum will find that in these subjects there is a message of diversity, love, tolerance and peace being taught to students.”
@DanialKn2
@AsadAToor
@Shafqat_Mahmood
There is a difference between uniform education *curriculum* (what is taught) and uniform education *system* (where it’s taught).
Parents should have choice of system; public, private or religious for their kid. Govt is ensuring equal learning standards not eliminating choice.
APPLY NOW!
An exciting opportunity for bachelors & masters students / graduates.
National Curriculum Council is hiring Research Assistants with a keen interest in edu policy to work closely with experts.
Application Deadline:
Oct 17, 2021
Apply here:
@MariamChughtai
only criticism against your work is that there is some overlap from 45 to 89% in different subjects. I am surprised that the author was expecting a 100% change. So far no technical/real objection on content. Good job.
سات اقلیتی مذاہب کےنصابی معیارات کی تیاری کےلیے NCC کی طرف سے مذہبی تعلیمی نصاب ورکشاپ کا انعقاد کیا گیا۔ یہ کوشش اس بات کو یقینی بنانے کےلیے جاری عمل کا حصہ ہے کہ مختلف مذاہب سے تعلق رکھنے والے بچوں کو اسکول میں اپنی نصابی کتب کے ذریعے ہی اپنے مذہب کا مطالعہ کرنے کا موقع ملے۔
[This is the best part of the debate]
PH in his article & in this debate tried to scare off people by likening SNC with Zia's regime curriculum.
Dr. Chugtai explained factually it's not the case in fact more radical changes were included by NS in 92 & 98 policies.
(4)
The only thing that kept Pakistan from becoming Syria or Iraq is our nuclear bomb.
For this, Pakistan and its children, are forever in your debt.
إِنَّا لِلّهِ وَإِنَّـا إِلَيْهِ رَاجِعُونَ
#DrAbdulQadeerKhan
Hoodbhoy said that this curriculum will bring down the standard of our education.
Dr. Mariam explained reps from Beacon House, City School & other elite school systems were part of SNC, would they agree to such a curriculum that would bring down their standard?
(2)
Congrats to
#LUMS
Assistant Prof Angbeen Atif, appointed today as the first female director of any university-wide office on campus & the inaugural Director of the new Office of Accessibility and Inclusion.
@LifeAtLUMS
@genderatlums
@FemSocLUMS
@LUMS_SOE
Incredibly heartbreaking to see Noor’s father.
We will stand with him, as his daughters, until
#ZahirJaffer
is punished and justice delivered.
#JusticeForNoor
What a brave and clear headed man. One hopes no father has to talk about his daughter like this. His composure is remarkable though what the family must be undergoing is unimaginable.
#NoorMukaddam
deserves justice and
#ZahirJaffer
must be punished along with all the accomplices!
A dual citizen can be president of the US, prime minister of Britain, prime minister of Canada, and chancellor of Germany.
Today's piece, on why the electoral bar doesn't stop dual nationals from ruling us, or our rulers from acting like dual nationals.
اساتذہ اسی طرح پڑھاتے ہیں جیسے ان کو پڑھایا جاتا تھا۔
ایک تباہ حال نظام میں، معلمین کو پہلے والا بھول جانے اور نئے سرے سے بہتر انداز میں درس و تدریس سیکھنے کی ضرورت ہے۔ اس کو وقت، صبر اور محنت درکار ہے۔
پالیسی اصلاحات میں، مستقل ترقی مقصد ہے نہ کہ راتوں رات کمال ہو جانا۔
In a latest anti-SNC video, a school principal claims that
#KalmaShahadat
in an Islamiyat book is incorrect becuz it is diff from her qaida.
The Kalma cited is from
#SahihBukhari
, authentic & endorsed by all Islamic schools of thought.
Pls check correct sources before maligning
First time in history, Govt of Pakistan has developed SEVEN dedicated Religious Education subjects for children of religious minorities. No Pakistani child should feel alienated.
Here is how
#SNC
for Pakistani Hindu children was developed.
#aikNisab
Today, my phone continued 2 send audio of my conversations at home even after i’d ended a
@WhatsApp
call w/ a friend. There was NO sign on my ph that a call was still connected.The same happened w/
#FaceTime
.My friend texted me all I’d been saying 2my family.
@Snowden
was right.