The Role of Teachers in Perspective of Millennium Development Goals (MDG’S) of Primary Education in Pakistan
Abstract
Sending all children to school is a major millennium development goal related to universalization of primary education around the world. The purpose of the study was to explore the roles of teachers and head teachers in perspectives of millennium development goal of primary education. The research was delimited to khanewal districts. All the govt. primary schools (elementary and secondary having classes of primary) was its population.323 teachers and 68 head teachers were taken through simple random sampling technique. A questionnaire and check lists were used as research instruments .frequency, percentage, and standard deviation and z tests were used for analysis of data. It was found that door to door survey has proven helpful for increasing enrolment and gender discrimination has slightly reduced among educated parents. Pakistan has not achieved the target yet, although government has establishes more schools and recruited highly qualified teachers.
Authors
Varda Iqbal
Assistant professor, Department of Education, Govt. Graduate College for Women, Khanewal, Punjab, Pakistan
Zahida Aziz Sial
Assistant professor, Department of Education, Bahuddin Zakariya University .Multan, Punjab, Pakistan
Dr. Farah Latif Naz
Lecturer, Department of Education, Bahuddin Zakariya University, Multan, Punjab, Pakistan