KARACHI: ‘From active learning to critical thinking’ was the theme as the Teachers Resource Centre (TRC) celebrated its journey over the years and shared new initiatives at a hotel here on Saturday...
But they needed to be taught different ways of learning...
When people have to look downward to see a product, their thinking becomes more concrete; when they have to look upward, it becomes more abstract, says a team led by Anneleen van Kerckhove, a researcher at Ghent University in Belgium...
As the screening of the documentary started, the boys sitting separately reacted totally different...
Khawaja, who retires on Sept 9, has been generally understood as being an extension of the judicial thinking of former chief justice Iftikhar Chaudhry...
If there is one single concept which captures the Supreme Court career of Chief Justice Khawaja, it is the mission to de-colonise judicial thinking...
While the sun blazed merrily in Islamabad; I relentlessly combed the streets of Blue Area in search of a pharmacy...
Secretions poured from my nose and my eyes itched incessantly
Education should impart both technical skills and general rational outlooks...
Unfortunately, students of even leading fields like law, engineering, business etc usually gain technical skills only, given rote teaching
Apparently, the moment the two started dating, they have been thinking about walking the altar...
The remedy, for our higher education woes, usually suggested is introduction of critical thinking: students should be able to think and engage critically with what they learn...
If our students did have the ability to engage critically with learning methods and the content of learning, we would indeed be in a very different place today...
Looking Back: How Pakistan Became an Asian Tiger by 2050 is Dr Nadeem ul Haque’s latest book...
While dismissing the notion of ‘development first,’ the writer argues for reforming the system first, to make the ground conducive to sustainable development
PESHAWAR: The panelists during the 11th study circle of the Bacha Khan Fellows stressed youths to adopt scientific approach and way of critical thinking in their life for clear vision and unbiased decisions...
They discussed the scientific way of thinking, the difference between nation and state, pluralist narrative, patriarchy, and condition of Pakhtun nation in the current political scenario...
KARACHI: “Growing up, the divide between the elite and poor was a major cause of frustration for me...
Coming to the Russian Revolution, he said that Karl Marx changed the thinking of the world...
Or will it not? My dad thinks that I am not thinking rationally and I am making all these decisions emotionally...
Asma Noureen, a 24-year-old from Bahawalpur is a perfect example of how social entrepreneurship can be life changing...
A participant in a new development programme, Business in a Box (BiB), which distributes contraceptives and other items needed by women in villages but under a business model, Asma has not only improved birth control prevalence in her village but also earned a good profit by doing so
Setting the tone of the event, Salima Hashmi went down the memory lane, recounting her personal experiences of August 14 at different stages of her childhood...
KARACHI: It is the language of pictures and images through which every child associates things first, not through his or her first language or mother tongue...
Thinking with the help of images is human language...