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Re-invention of Education System for National and Global Good Governance and Social and Economic Development

INTRODUCTION WHY AN INTEGRATED NATIONAL AND GLOBAL VISION?

Purpose - From Age of Discovery to Age of Information

Definition of Education and its application The beginning of fragmented and segmented education system

System of Governance Diagnosis of the system

Four Major Delivery Targets of a System of Governance

Aligning Education System with Delivery Targets PRESCRIPTION TO CURE THE SYSTEM

Conclusion & Solution

The treatment is not that easy as it appears

EXISTING EDUCATION SYSTEM Visible Core Differences

Issues that need to be resolved

What does it show? How to remove the handicaps?

Some important questions Will the process of reform end here?

The only way out is a combination of specialized and WIL

THE CHALLENGES AND THE WAY OUT

CONCLUSION

From where the education planners have to begin?

How to do it?

The need for balancing the Delivery and Receiving Ends

What is missing?

The purpose of education

Four essential elements of alignment of purpose

Manageable Handicaps and the conditions for the integration

of national education perspective

A step forward to Country-Specific Conceptual Plan

THE PUROPSE

The purpose of this paper presentation is to:

Re-define education

Describe how it applies to system of governance and its four core delivery targets and

What needs to be done for aligning education system with the delivery targets

How to re-invent education system

Re-invention of Education System for National and Global Good Governance and Social and Economic Development

INTRODUCTIONDefinition of Education & its Application

If education is carefully defined asa step by step process of acquiringknowledge, then outcome of thatknowledge depends on its natureand quality of application in anycivil and corporate initiative.

Civil initiative encompasses eachand every aspect of life in a countryand corporate initiative isrestricted to only economic aspectdirectly but every other aspect ofhuman activity indirectly.Consequently, education and itsapplication play an important rolein Civil and Corporate Systems ofGovernance.

System of Governance

There are two players in a Systemof Governance – those who govern(Public Representatives and PublicServants known as politicians andbureaucrats respectively) and thosewho are governed (The People).

The governing and governedplayers are at the delivering andreceiving ends respectively. Thegoverning players are given thetask to plan for and manage thefollowing Four Major DeliveryTargets

System

of Governance

Public Representatives

at the

Delivering End

People

at the

Receiving End

Public Servants at the

Delivering End

Four Major Delivery Targets of a System of Governance

Education for the development ofa country’s human resources

Employment for an individual’sprosperity and a country’s overalldevelopment and growth throughplanned use of its economicresources in agricultural, industrialand service sectors

Justice for interpretation andapplication of law to redress thegrievances of citizens and

Security for maintaining law andorder

Education Employment Justice Law & Order

Aligning Education System with Delivery Targets

The Four Delivery Targets clearlyindicate that a system of civil andcorporate governance that does notcreate job opportunities proportion-ate to the number of post graduates,graduates and pre-graduation dropouts according to their respectiveeducational qualifications graduallywidens the gap between humanresource potential and humanresource utilization. Consequently,the natural resources of the countryeither remain un-explored, under-explored, un-developed or under-developed with obvious negativeimpact on its real economic growthpotential and actual performance.The negative impact gradually turnsinto an unbreakable Cycle of NineSocial and Economic Evils with aclearly visible sequence beginningwith Illiteracy and Ignorance andending at Sectarianism andTerrorism.

Conclusion & SolutionCONCLUSION

It can be safely concluded that EducationSystem and its properly engineeredintegrated Media Mix is the only way outof today’s social unrest, politicalleadership crisis, economic mess,diplomatic stale-mate and militaryconfusion.

SOLUTION

The purpose of this paper is to discussthe salient features of an InnovativeEducation System and its IntegratedMix that not only repairs the visibledamages to the State ManagementSystem popularly known as the System ofGovernance but ensures the maximumutilization of natural and humanresources for social justice, economicprosperity, political stability, diplomaticconsensus and military strength also.

Conclusion Solution

Existing Education System

This chart prepared by Dr. Ishrat Hussain, formerGovernor State Bank of Pakistan and one of thecountry’s top scholars, gives a clear idea about thefragmentation and segmentation of education systemin Pakistan.

WHAT DOES IT SHOW?

1. Two (madrasa and modern) education systems

2. Four (regular, religious, English, Urdu) media ofeducation at primary level in three (religious,private and public) spheres.

3. At secondary education level our education systemoffers four social and economic status basededucation modules

4. At higher education level there are five broadcategories for specialization

Existing Education System

SOME IMPORTANT QUESTIONS

1. How to make our education system coincidewith our country’s social, economic, political,diplomatic and military needs simultaneouslyaddressing the demands and pressures of outof control and challenging globalization?

2. Does our country have a human and naturalresource map that fits in the regional andglobal natural and human resource maps?

3. How does our Ministry of Education and itsconcerned departments estimate the needs foreducation in different disciplines coincidingwith the needs of the country in a globalizedworld?

4. Is there an answer to above question also atany level?

The Challenges and the Way-Out

FROM WHERE DO THE EDUCATION PLANNERS HAVE TO BEGIN?

A National and Global Vision has to be emphasized forrationalizing human and natural resource planning both atnational and international levels focusing on a followingfour point agenda:

1. Evaluation of first national, then regional andultimately global natural and human resourcepotential. At present, it is partially and inaccuratelydone by international organizations at individualcountry levels without its global integration.

2. Scientifically acceptable measurement of differencebetween natural and human resource potential,performance and utilization in the same sequence.

3. Drawing of national, regional and global inward andoutward flow of natural and human resource mapsfrom and to a country, a region and the world.

4. Creation of national, regional and global education andtraining of human and exploration, development anddistribution hubs of national resources turning theminto global resources.


HOW TO DO IT?

1. Focus on scientifically balanced creation ofan Education System based on originalNational Contextual Diversity .

2. Integrate it with far more complicatedGlobal Diversity in a rapidly GlobalizedWorld to create an environment of practicalfunctional synergy.

3. Draw a National Activity Map consisting ofsocial, economic, political, diplomatic andmilitary territories.

4. Each thematic territory needs a leader andleadership failure in any one or more thanone of the thematic territories on NationalActivity Map results in nothing but socialunrest.

Does our present Education System addresssocial cohesion and economic exclusion the wayit is supposed to?


NEED FOR BALANCING THE DELIVERY AND RECEIVING ENDS:

An individual in his personal capacity or as member of afamily , as a social unit, is socially either at theDELIVERING or the RECEIVING END.

The purpose of Education System, therefore, is to createand maintain a sustainable balance between deliveringand receiving ends for strengthening social cohesion andeliminating economic exclusion through highly educatedManagers of the System of Civil and CorporateGovernance at the DELIVERY END.

Such a balance is necessary for a country’s growth andconsequent prosperity.

The present social and economic imbalances arestagnating or declining growth and consequent socialunrest and economic uncertainty nationally andglobally.

Is this the failure of the delivery system or the failure ofthe education system?


WHAT IS MISSING?

Four important and essentialelements of modern education aremissing:

1. Alignment of the purpose ofeducation with the country’stangible and intangibleelements of national power

2. A single education medium

3. Consensus on a uniformsyllabus

4. Focus on national, regionaland global contexts; andIntegration of fragmented andsegmented education mediatools.


THE PURPOSE OF EDUCATION

Alignment of the purpose of acountry’s education system with itstangible and intangible elementsof national power directly linkedwith globally interconnectedeconomy and its multipledimensions.

This is totally missing in oureducation system.

How it is being aligned indeveloped countries?

Make student a good human

being…

…a responsible citizen…

…after assessment of his aptitude…

…for shaping his personality…

…preparing him for a leadership

role…

…social and economic status…

…making him aware of national

challenges…

…in a globally inter connected

economy...

...and its multiple interactive

dimensions.


THE FOUR ESSENTIAL ELEMENTS OF ALLIGNMENT OF PURPOSE

1. to synthesize research on issuesrelated to improving leadership inschools;

2. to identify innovative and successfulpolicy initiatives and practices;

3. to facilitate exchanges of lessons andpolicy options among countries; and

4. to identify policy options forgovernments to consider.”

SOURCE:

“School leadership development strategies: Building leadership capacity in Victoria, Australia:”

A case study report for the OECD activity – improving school leadership


MANAGEABLE HANDICAPS

1. Does this National ContextualEducation Landscape exist?

2. Do the developing countrieshave the requisite expertiseand the skilled manpower todo that?

3. Can the expertise and skill ofsuch manpower be of any helpin developing a genuinelyoriginal blueprint for doingthe needful?

The teachers, lecturers andprofessors of the developingcountries are actively involved inacademic research andimprovement of education deliverysystems in almost all majordeveloped countries in the world.


A STEP FORWARD TO CONCEPTUAL COUNTRY SPECIFIC PROGRAM

Now it’s time to move a step forward andcome up with a plan that is conceptuallycountry-specific and practically fulfillsthe global integration criteria too. Globalintegration does not refer to O, ACambridge system here. For that threebroad areas have been already identifiedearlier and those are:

1. A National and a Global Vision

1. Failure of the fragmented andsegmented education system acrossthe globe including developedcountries of the world

2. Creation of the Cycle of Nine Socialand Economic Evils

• National and Global Education Vision

ENVISION

• Failed Segmented and Fragmented Education System

REPLACE• Cycle of Nine

Social and Economic Evils

BREAK

Why an Integrated National and Global Education Vision?

A Brief Backgrounder

1. The first description of theworld and world map createdby the Arab geographer,Muhammad Al-Idrisi in 1154that remained the mostaccurate map for the nextthree centuries

2. Age of Discovery andExploration starting in theearly 15th century andcontinuing to the 17th centurywhen the Europeans exploredAfrica, the Americas, Asia andOceana. The Age of Discoverytriggered the early modernperiod, worldly curiosity andscientific intellectual inquiry.

Tabula Rogiana, World’s First Description & Map by Muhammad Al-Idrisi

FROM AGE OF DISCOVERY TO AGE OF INFORMATION –



1. Direct communication between WesternEurope and East Asia was blocked

2. Sub-Saharan Africa was a little in touchwith Europe but did not have access toSouth and East Asia

3. Slaves from Africa mined silver in Americasfor sale to China

4. Spanish merchants waited impatiently forthe latest shipments of Asian silk andporcelain for Mexico

5. Dutch sailors traded cowry shells from theMaldives Islands in the Indian Ocean forhuman beings in Angola on the Atlanticcoast.

Permanent European Occupation inAmericas set the stage for globalization

FROM AGE OF DISCOVERY TO AGE OF INFORMATION –



1. The “galleon trade” linked Asia,Europe, the Americas, and, lessdirectly, Africa.

2. Never before so much of the planethad been bound in a single networkof exchange - every populous area onearth, every habitable continentexcept Australia.

This was the beginning of globalization.One may call it the birth of twins – Globaltrade and globalization. That was the timeto globalize education but it was notglobalized intentionally due to the greedof colonial powers for the maximizationof the benefits of the Age of Explorationand Discovery in connivance with the eliteclasses of the colonies to their advantage.

THE BEGINNING OF THE FRAGMENTED AND SEGMENTED EDUCATION SYSTEM


1. This was the time when exploitativefragmented and segmented system ofeducation reflected in Dr. IshratHussain’s chart was actually forcedupon colonies – an internationalsystem of education for the rulers andtheir local accomplices inexploitation and a fragmented andsegmented purely religious, poorlyadministered public and an expansiveunaffordable private national systemof the education for the ruled.

2. The privileged classes of the coloniescontinued the colonial system ofeducation even after the departure oftheir colonial masters to perpetuateto perpetuate their hold on the social,economic, political, diplomatic andmilitary structures of the de-colonized countries.


THE BEGINNING OF THE FRAGMENTED AND SEGMENTED EDUCATION SYSTEM


DIAGNOSIS OF THE SYSTEM…

- THE CYCLE OF SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC EVILS AND HOW TO BREAK IT?

1. The perpetuation of the hold of educatedelite class on Five Territories on NationalActivity Map very slowly and graduallycreated and cemented the previouslyinvisible but now clearly visible Cycle ofNine Social and Economic Evils. A carefulstudy and analysis of the Cycle’s formationclearly indicates that first evil illiteracy andignorance plays an important role in theformation and adds eight more evils.

1. The ultimate scientifically establishedconclusion is that a de-colonized uniformsystem of education can help in eliminat-ing the remaining eight evils in the Cycleof Nine Social and Economic Evilsautomatically.

Prescription to cure the system Now it is time to re-visit Dr. Ishrat Hussain’s chart to see how it needs to be re-drawn?

DR. ISHRAT HUSSAIN’S CHART SHOWING THE FRAGMENTED THIS IS HOW A DE-FRAGMENTED EDUCATION SYSTEM LOOKSAND SEGMENTED EDUCATION SYSTEM: LIKE:

Prescription to cure the education system

IS THE TREATMENT THAT EASY AS IT APPEARS IN THE CHART?

The treatment is not that easy as itappears because the replacement of themedium of education from religious tomodern, from Urdu to English or Englishto Urdu and switching over from theoptions of Religious, Matric andCambridge Systems to either uniformMatric or Cambridge System will triggera debate on the following issues:

1. Ethnic and religious differences onprovincial and national contextual-ization of syllabus

2. Clash between national and globalconcepts of contextualization

3. Anticipated disagreement onprovincial and national contextualsyllabus and its negative impact onrequisite integration with ongoingglobal contextual initiatives

4. Non-availability of qualifiedteachers, lecturers and professors atprimary, secondary and higherlevels


VISIBLE CORE DIFFERENCES

1. Pakistan is a conglomerate of provincialethnic groups with powerful sub-ethnicsegments in the four provinces andtheir divisions and districts, FATA,Tribal Areas and Azad Jammu andKashmir.

2. These differences are compounded byreligious and ideological differencesmaking the task of creating andsustaining consensus on contextualoutline of the first provincial and thennational syllabus.

3. The distinct cultural diversity of eachethnic group is so prominent that it iseasily exploited by different politicaland religious groups.

An attempt was made immediately after thecountry’s independence to declare Urdu as anational language but strong protest fromEast Pakistan forced the government todrop the idea.

CORE DIFFERENCES

Ethnic Concerns

Religious Concerns

Cultural Diversity

Political Orientation


ISSUES THAT NEED TO BE RESOLVED

1. Differences on national and global contextualissues

2. Non-availability of qualified teaching staffand the way-out

3. Private schools, colleges and universities havetremendously contributed in increasing thepercentage enrolment in almost all prevailingsystems of education lacking in two areas:

i. Improving the quality of teaching throughcollaboration with corporate sector andministry of education for setting up asignificantly extended chain of high-standard teachers training institutes withinPakistan proportionate to the increase inpercentage enrolment.

ii. Development of comprehensive plan for theexchange of teachers, lecturers andprofessors on semester-to-semester basis inconsultation with the managements of theaffiliated schools, colleges and universities.

Prescription to cure the education systemHOW TO REMOVE THE HANDICAPS

The best way to remove the handicaps is touse a set of options on “take-it-or-leave-it”basis for addressing the ethnic, religiousand political differences by upgrading thealready existing religious educationalinstitutions, madrasas, model schools andcolleges of repute in excellence andequipping them with the most moderneducation related technologies, pre-testingcontextual syllabus there and providing anopportunity to trained teachers forapplying and documenting theirobservations, experiences and outcome oftheir modern teaching skills for theirnationwide expanded application.

WILL THE PROCESS OF REFORM ENDHERE

Actually this is the zero point from wherethe actual reform process will be initiatedand expanded at national level throughaligning the education system with theelements of national power and itsintegration with National and GlobalVision translated into an Overall NationalResource Map and a set of Natural andHuman Resource Maps covering each andevery aspect of the Five Territories on theNational Activity Map. On completion ofthese maps the next phase will be tointegrate them with Global Natural andHuman Resource Flow Maps.

The Last Word and the Conclusion

THE LAST WORD

The only best way-out is to focus on a combination of Specialized and Work Integrated Learning

After studying almost all systems of education,my personal preference is Work IntegratedLearning that is the best way-out-of presentmess in education system that is clearlyreflected in ongoing social unrest, politicalchaos, economic uncertainty, diplomaticconfusion and military tensions.

CONCLUSION

The following proposed alternate chart of Dr.Ishrat Hussain’s chart of fragmented andsegmented education is the only possible way toreform Pakistan’s Education Model. Once theconsensus is built on the proposed model ofalternate education system only then anythingelse will be worthy of any fruitful discussion.Otherwise the social, economic, political,diplomatic and military polarization will furtherdeteriorate the quality of almost dysfunctionalsystem of governance risking the very survival ofthe country.

ORIGINAL CONCEPTUAL IMPROVEMENT BY ZAHID HUSSAIN KHALID

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