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Prof. Anita Ghulam Ali, is one of the most renowned educationists of Pakistan with nearly 50 years of experience in the field of education. She started her career in 1961 as a lecturer at the Sindh Muslim Science College, Karachi & has been appointed Minister for Education, Culture, Science, Technology, Youth & Sports twice, once in Oct. 1996 and in Nov. 1999. She is currently serving the Sindh Education Foundation in her capacity as as a Managing Director.
Moreover, she has published extensively on issues related to Education and Development. Given her vast experience as a practitioner as well as a policy maker, she is uniquely qualified to comment hoslistically on educational issues ranging from teaching methodology to policy and implementation.
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Noam Chomsky is one of the leading intellectuals of our time. He is also regarded as one of America’s most prominent political dissidents. A renowned professor of linguists at MIT, he has authored over 30 political books dissecting such issues as US . interventionism in the developing world, the political economy of human rights and the propaganda role of corporate media. Chomsky has most kindly allowed EDucate! to reproduce from the plethora of his internationally acclaimed works
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Born on 19 September 1921 to middle class parents in Recife, Brazil, Paulo Freire knew poverty and hunger during the 1929 Great Depression, an experience that would shape his concerns for the poor and would help to construct his particular educational viewpoint.
Freire entered the University of Recife in 1943, enrolling in the Faculty of Law, but also studying philosophy, more specifically phenomenology, and the psychology of language.
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Henry Giroux was born and raised in Providence, Rhode Island. After teaching high school history in Barrington, Rhode Island for six years, Giroux earned his doctorate at Carnegie-Mellon in 1977. His first position as a professor was in education at Boston University, which he held for the next six years. Following that he became an education professor and renowned scholar in residence at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. While there he also served as the founding Director of the Center for Education and Cultural Studies.
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Professor Peter McLaren PhD from the University of California in Los Angeles is one of the best-known representatives of critical pedagogy in the world. He has cooperated with the Faculty of Education at University of Lapland through such things as guest researcher visits. He is being conferred with an honorary doctorate for his work in critical pedagogy.
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Dr. Tariq Rehman, Ph.D., is an acclaimed Pakistani scholar specializing in linguistics. He is currently Professor of Linguistics and South Asian Studies at Quaid-e-Azam University, Islamabad, and was full professor at the University of Sana’a, Yemen and Fulbright research scholar at the University of Texas, USA. As head of the Department of English, he has the distinction of introducing a Masters program in Linguistics and English Language Training at the University of Azad
Jammu and Kashmir. He writes with simplicity and clarity and increasingly draws on the two disciplines of history and politics. Among his many published books, A history of Pakistani Literature in English remains a landmark.
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Mashhood Rizvi has been working with the SEF since 1997 and is now Director Programs, Operations and Research. He is also the Editor-in-Chief of a portfolio of publications which includes EDucate! & Nurture. He has been working in the field of education & development and his primary area of interest is critical and radical pedagogy. He has written many articles on the issues pertaining to education & development
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Wasif Rizvi Has spent the past six years as senior advisor to the Institute for Development Studies and Practices, in Quetta, Pakistan, and is currently working with Aga Khan Education Services, Karachi. Before co-founding Shikshantar, Wasif year in Pakistan working as a social-policy development consultant in the areas of planning, policy and organizational analysis, research, program design/development, and program evaluation with USAID, DFID, CIDA, NORAD, Asian Development Bank, the Asia Foundation, PEN TV, and Philips Academy.
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Dr. Ali Shariati was born in Mazinan, a suburb of Mashhad, Iran. He completed his elementary and high school in Mashhad. In his years at the Teacher's Training College, he came into contact with youth who were from the lower economic strata of the society and tasted the poverty and hardship that existed.
At the age of eighteen, he started as a teacher and ever since had been a student as well as a teacher. After graduating from college in 1960, on a scholarship he pursued graduate studies in France. Dr. Shariati, an honor student, received his doctorate in sociology in 1964 from Sorbonne University.
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Howard Zinn (born August 24, 1922) is an American historian, political scientist, social critic, activist and playwright, best known as author of the bestseller, A People's History of the United States.
Zinn's philosophy incorporates ideas from Marxism, anarchism, socialism, and social democracy. Since the 1960s, he has been active in the Civil Rights and anti-war movements in the United States.
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