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Friday, 27 January 2012 01:00 |
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Tags: Bangladesh education | education | Madrasha | madrasha education | Primary education MUZIB MEHDY
In the last quarter of the 20th century, women involved in development activities began traveling in the rural areas on motorbikes and bicycles for work related purposes. Many people have lauded this development as progress for professional women; on the other side a segment of the same population (both educated and uneducated) have identified this as an indicator of the degeneration of women in terms of morality and character and Madrasah students threatened to prevent this behavior. The nefarious attack that was made by young Madrasah boys on the sports day for primary students of the public Aaliyah Madrasah of Sylhet, where their rage was expended on the young girls participating in the sports competitions as well as the national flag, must have been an attempt to bring about the alleged morality. 7 The fact that what the majority people of society deem as progress appears to be moral degeneration to Madrasah people making them take actions to eradicate it must be an outcome of Madrasah education. The values promoted through Madrasah education attempts to retain non-progress in national and social life. Reviewing this example of the participation of the Madrasahs in establishing their so called morality as well as selected incidents of their personal and professional lives that have been published in the newspapers point toward the moral vacuum that exist within them. There is no need to go into controversial subjects; there are no actions that are morally contemptible to all human beings that the Madrasah related people are not deeply involved in – whether that action is murder, rape, sexual assault, embezzlement or cheating at exams.
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Monday, 23 January 2012 23:44 |
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Tags: Boring class | Classroom | Interesting class | School and classroom MASUM BILLAH
Imparting class and sharing knowledge should be exciting, stimulating and empowering. When a class takes place in a boring atmosphere, the learners cannot absorb it and they feel insecure. So, it is teacher’s creativity which makes a boring class interesting and exciting through his/her specially designed classes. Teachers can start the creative teaching from the crucial phase-warming up or brainstorming. A teacher must remember that in a boring atmosphere the learners don’t show any interest to learn anything new. It is again a teacher’s initiative and effort to make a passive and unmotivated class into a physically activated one. A teacher can do it in various ways. Pictures usually stimulate students’ imagination and eagerness in learning. A teacher can use relevant pictures in the class to stimulate the learners creating a story or separated activities without any texts. The emphasis of this activity is to activate students’ skill in making sentences through the stimulating pictures. Then from the sentences he/she can ask students to identify the verbs, adjectives and adverbs. Thus the students will learn sentence construction using their visual learning and learn clearly about different parts of speech which seem to be boring when learnt otherwise.
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Friday, 20 January 2012 18:26 |
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Tags: Bangladesh education | education | Madrasha | madrasha education | Primary education MUZIB MEHDY
Madrasah Education and ValuesEthics or the judgment of right and wrong is related to a human being’s development from a child (a biological entity) to an adult human (a bio-cultural entity). Sociologists call this process of growing into an adult from a child “Socialization” implying that this is the process that turns us into creatures worthy of society. The cultural elements of each society teach people how to behave, what to do and what not to do, what to think and what not to think. The anthropologist Teaylor has defined culture as being “the knowledge, behavior, beliefs, art, values, laws, practices and habits that a person inherits by being a member of a society.” 1 It has been seen that human beings inherit values from the system and practice of values prevalent in their society. This inheritance occurs through education. Education provides humans with the structure of values and ethics to be followed. Humans receive the education that constructs these values from various elements and institutions of society. These elements and institutions are usually the family, neighbors, friends, school, mass media (books, newspapers, and the electronic media). The whole educational infrastructure of a society evolves from the principles and values determined by that society. In this discussion regarding the Madrasah education in Bangladesh and the system of values that has evolved from it, it is important to consider these aspects related to the overall nature of culture and education. For the type and impact of institutional education on the development, change or transformation of social mores or cultural values is significant.
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Thursday, 12 January 2012 21:07 |
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Tags: Achievement in Education | education in Bangladesh | Education Plans | Educational Plan | Primary education MASUM BILLAH
The nation has just observed its 40th Victory Day anniversary and stepped into 41st year of our achievement of freedom. Our greatest achievement in the 20th century at the cost of supreme sacrifice of our heroic sons is our freedom but the real spirit of freedom struggle still stands far apart from the reality. Political factors stand prime barriers to materialize the dream of our liberation struggle. What percentage of freedom we have achieved in terms of education, getting health facilities from the state, social security, freedom of speech and human rights still remains a big question. We have achieved some progress in primary education in terms of the increase of school going children but not in terms of acquiring competency level. Still seventeen percent children don't go to school at all. The fruit of freedom has not yet ripened even after 40 years for these children. This percentage shows much higher in ‘haor’ and ‘monga’ and ‘hilly’ areas. In the secondary level pass percentage is increasing every year without ensuring quality. It has become a national mania to make the students pass in the public examination whether they have the ability to pass or not.
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