KARACHI: The Aga Khan University’s Institute for Educational Development (AKU-IED) will organise a two-day national research symposium on Teachers’ Status on February 22 and 23, 2007.
The symposium aims to engage researchers, practitioners and academicians in deliberation on issues regarding the status of teachers, and would develop recommendations for policy makers and other stakeholders in addressing these issues. Key figures in the field of education have been invited to deliver papers and make presentations in the symposium.
Teachers’ status would be seen from three main dimensions. The first one will be the knowledge dimension where presentations and discussions would take account of research on issues related to teachers’ knowledge and competency and their implications for low teacher status. The second dimension will be the socio-cultural dimension in which research and situation analysis of societal perceptions of teaching and teachers and their implications for the status of teachers will be taken into account. The last dimension, the economic dimension, would be based on research and situation analysis pertaining to the teachers’ financial status and its implications for teachers’ status in the society.
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