Highlights of the educational system of Gilgit Baltistan. -Saad Imtiaz -Syed Naveed Kamil -Mehtaba

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Presentation By:
Saad Imtiaz
Mehtaba Hidayat
Syed Naveed-ul-Kamil

4. Our Main Points
 Empowerment Through Education
 Gender Equity
 Bridging The Different Cultures
 Abolishing War & Bringing Peace Through Education
 NGOs In Promoting Education
 Conclusion

5. Empowerment Through
Education:
"Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself." - John
Dewey
Making a difference
Makes us human beings
Broadens our horizon
Basis of a civilized structured society
Longer Life expectancies:
• Understanding Capabilities
• Healthy Choices
Higher self-esteem

6. Gender Equity:
 Past
 Education & Women
 Impacts

7. Past:
 Male dominated society
 Women were limited to home chores only
 Lack of communicative skills and conservation
 Sense of inferiority

8. Education & Women:
 Islamic obligation:
- “Ac q uiring e duc a tio n is o blig a to ry up o n e ve ry Mus lim ”
(Hadith)
 Conservative societies were reluctant towards female education
 Modern education was regarded as unIslamic and against cultural
norms
 Education empowers women by providing them leadership skills
 Eventually people realized the importance of female education

10. Impacts:
Education has equalized the women’s status in society as:
 Education reforms:
- Liberation of Afghan Women (1922) proposed an important
reform program in Afghanistan for women’s education.
(Middle East & Islamic World Reader,
Pg.123)
 Gender gaps have almost disappeared
 Women enrollment rate in universities
 Women in all fields

11. Bridges Among The Different
Cultures:
 Education reduces social and economic disparity
 Education rejects all sorts of discriminations on the basis of ethnicity,
caste, color, creed etc
 YES (Youth Exchange and Study Program)
-Building bridges of understanding
 MUNs (Model United Nations)
-Great source of bringing different cultures closer to each other

12. Abolishing War & Bringing Peace Through
Education:
Following topics will be covered:
Basic Reasons of War
How to Control War through Education
Examples

13. Basic Reasons of War:
 Illiteracy
 Incognizance to social values
 Inability to communicate peacefully
 Discriminations (racial, gender, class, mental) and lack of justice
 Misunderstandings

14. War Eradication:
 Thinning out education
 Peaceful communication
 UNESCO purposes : Through our mind through education
that war eradicates and
peace must be established
 Diversity, justice , equality etc should be promoted

15. Examples:
 Dark ages in Europe
 Korphe… (Three Cups of Tea)
 Peshawar
 Afghanistan
 UNESCO

16. “The abolishing of war must be our ultimate goal and
its only possible when our society has at least 76%
literacy rate ”
(Joseph Rotblat, Noble prize winner)

17. NGOs In Promoting
Education:
 AKESP’s role (AGA Khan Education Services in Pakistan)
 CAI (Central Asian Institute)
 Foreigners
 Community Schools

18. AKES (Aga Khan Educational
Services)
 Services
 Working under AKDN
 AKES since 1980s
 Operating more than 300
schools around the globe
 Pakistan, India, Bangladesh,
Uganda, Kenya, Tajikistan,
Tanzania and Kyrgyz republic.

19. Foreigners:
 Skurdu was a backward area in Pakistan, Greg made first school and
extended his vision throughout Pakistan with the help of CAI.
 Diana Mac Aurthur is currently making an English medium school in
Murtazabad (a valley in Hunza)
 Tsuneo Hasegawa and Masami Hasegawa

20. CAI:
 A non-profit organization
 Central Asia Institute’s mission is
to promote and support community-based
education, especially for
girls, in remote regions of
Afghanistan and Pakistan.
 . Built 145 schools and over 65000
students are studying
(www.threecupsoftea.com)

22. Community Based Development:
 Definition: Community development is a structured intervention that
gives communities greater control over the
conditions that affect their lives.
 Community Schools:
• Sustainability
• Trustworthy
• Contribution

23. Conclusion:
There have been a number of encouraging trends in the education sector
which have brought the following changes:
 Education has empowered the humankind in different ways to bring a
change in this world
 There have been a number of encouraging trends in women’s education
which has ultimately eradicated the gender disparity
 Education has brought the different cultures of the world very closer to
each other
 Education is the key to abolish war and bring peace
 NGOs are playing a vital role in promoting education in remote areas of
Pakistan and other countries