Those who have read the 1946 report of "post war plan " or voluminous report of 2nd Education conference of 1951, can easily understand the importance of Skill education. Some times people treat it as an separate entity but it is essential to link it with general education. From British colonial times we are producing an army of Matriculation, F.A, B,A and M,A who does not know a single skill and are useless for the market and society simultaneously. Without changing this practice we cannot develop at all. On the one hand we need literate skill people every where in textiles, agriculture, repairing, etc but our education system is not helpful in this regard. Why we want to develop separate skill education institutions? like poli-technique or TEFTA etc? we can introduce basic skill courses in general education and than interested students can go to specific skill base institutions. If our general education creates narrow-mindedness regarding skills then we cannot achieve above goals. What we are promoting through our textbooks these days is an interesting study and i tried to understand it in both reports ( What we are teaching our children & our girls..our future) published by JAAG (available at jaag website & Blog) we r promoting such things like
1- Boys can learn every skill while girls should learn some specific skills
2- these days our books are promoting computer related skills , in past we were promoting engineering and medical sciences. Due to such selective approach we often miss majority who cannot afford long spell of education due to their poor economic conditions. we should promote basic skills in textbooks
3- no one wants to learn about sanitation yet everyone wants to learn about computers. why? we are not respecting labour but some specific labour
4- A woman or girl can become a doctor, teacher, nurse yet our textbooks neither publishes any pictures of women sitting in office as administrator or instructing her male employees
5- Urban bias is also visible in textbooks as we generally promoted urban skills
Now first democratic transition (FDT) is near to complete, PML (N), PPP, PTI along with their allies will hold governments in the Punjab, KPK, Baluchistan and Sindh. Education is now a provincial issue so they can do alot in their respective provinces. read the piece
http://e.dunya.com.pk/detail.php?date=2013-05-22&edition=LHR&id=365600_76861062
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