QUESTION:
Describe the provision of higher education in National Policy 2009.
Course: Higher Education
Course code 8625
Level: B.Ed Solved Assignment
ANSWER:
National Education Policy 2009
Islamabad, Aug 20:
The National Education Policy (NEP) 2009 prepared by the federal government
seeks the transformation of society along the lines of Islamic teachings and to revitalize the existing education system to cater to the social, political, and spiritual needs of
individuals and society.
The NEP has nine chapters and describes overarching challenges, articulates the
ways of filling the commitment-implementation gap, puts forward the provisions
of Islamic education and transformation of the society on Islamic and human
values, outlines reforms and policy actions to be taken at the sub-sector
level, and broadly suggests a framework for implementation of the policy.
According
to the policy's draft, teaching Islamiyat to Muslim students is meant to
provide them with opportunities to learn understand, and apply the fundamental
principles of Islam in their lives. This, it says, will reform and develop
society on the principles of the Holy Quran and Sunnah. The policy declares
Islamic education as the duty of society and the state. It says the ideology of
Islam forms the genesis of the State of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan and its fundamental
principles were defined in the Objectives Resolution, 1949, which is part of the Constitution.
Titled Islamic Education, the NEP's Chapter Four gives out the vision for
teaching Islamic Studies. It says as provided in the Constitution, that all steps
will be taken to enable Muslims of Pakistan, individually and collectively, to
order their lives according to the fundamental principles and basic
concepts of Islam, and to provide facilities whereby they may be enabled to
understand the meaning of life according to the Holy Quran and Sunnah.
According to the NEP, Islamiyat will be taught as a compulsory subject from Grade I to Grade XII, extending up to graduation level in all general and
professional institutions, and advanced Islamic Studies will be offered as an
elective subject in grades IX-X and XI-XII.
The policy divides the Islamiyat curriculum into five main parts – Al-Quran Al
Kareem; Imaniyaat and Ibaadat; Seerat-e-Tayyiba; Ethics and Good Behaviour, and
Prominent Personalities of Islam. The first part includes the reading of the
Holy Quran (Nazira), the memorizing of selected small Suras of the Holy Quran
(Hifz), the memorization and translation of selected small Suras, and the
Quranic supplications, and selected Hadith.
According to it, the Islamic teachings will be made part of teacher training
curricula and the curricula of other training institutions. It says Arabic
teachers, preferably having the qualification of Qaris, will be appointed to
such institutions. The policy promises to ensure that textual and other learning materials don't contain anything repugnant to Islamic
injunctions and controversial material against any sect or religious or ethnic
minorities.
The policy
recommends teaching Ethics and Moral Education instead of Islamiyat to non-Muslim children and the appointment of subject-specific teachers for the purpose.
DOVETAILING GOVERNMENT INITIATIVES
Recently many new
initiatives have been taken by the government aiming at providing missing
facilities. The traditional approach of improving infrastructure and providing
brick-and-mortar is no doubt necessary, but not sufficient for quality
education delivery and sustainable economic development in the existing
burgeoning global competitive milieu. Some initiatives also focus/target
on improving teaching quality and learning environment, building the capacity of education managers
and administrators, etc. Apart from the Ministry of Education, many other
initiatives have been launched in the recent past by different Ministries,
organizations, and departments like the National Commission for Humans.
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