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Representation of Indigenous Languages Employing a Religious Screen for the Discursive Construction of Students' Postcolonial National Identities: A Curious Case of 'Internal Colonisation' and 'Cultural Invasion' in Pakistani Schools
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Qazi, M. Habib; Javid, Choudhary Z.; Ullah, Inayat – British Educational Research Journal, 2023
This study problematises the discourses of Pakistan's national curriculum textbooks to investigate how they represent Pakistan's indigenous languages/cultures through the prism of religion to constitute secondary school students' particular postcolonial linguistic identities. It also draws on the perspectives of 12 teachers and 424 students to…
Descriptors: National Curriculum, Textbook Evaluation, Indigenous Populations, Native Language
Exploring the Role of India's Secondary School Compulsory Curriculum Textbooks in Students' National Identity Constructions in an Overseas School
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Qazi, M. Habib; Taysum, Alison – British Educational Research Journal, 2021
This study problematises the contribution of India's school textbooks in students' national identity constructions in an overseas school in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The textbooks construct students' national identity on the concepts of India's secular democracy, colonial resistance and equal citizenship rights. Notwithstanding study…
Descriptors: Indians, Foreign Countries, Self Concept, Student Attitudes
Discursive Construction of Pakistan's National Identity through Curriculum Textbook Discourses in a Pakistani School in Dubai, the United Arab Emirates
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Qazi, M. Habib; Shah, Saeeda – British Educational Research Journal, 2019
This study investigates Pakistan's secondary school children's constructions of their national identity in a Pakistani school in Dubai by drawing on data collected from students and teachers from the case school and analysing national curriculum textbooks used in the school. Informed by Foucault's concepts, the article problematises how the…
Descriptors: Nationalism, Secondary School Students, Self Concept, National Curriculum