April to June, Volume 4, Issue 2, 2020.
This article examines issues and conflicts related to water among Indian states. Rapidly developing Indian states are competing among themselves for propriety of mutual natural resources in which water is at top. Distribution of water or building water reservoirs over mutuall...
The aim of the study was to identify teachers’ thinking style (TS) and instructional practices (IP) they use at secondary school level in Punjab. The sample of the study was 441 teachers in public secondary schools of district Sialkot in Punjab. (TS) Inventory was used to coll...
Being inspired by the Western hegemonic discourse, the Romania novelist, Mircea Eliade’s Eurocentric line of thought renders the Others/Indians as uncivilized, primitives and exotic in Bengal Nights. The present study upholds that the novel offers ambivalence-based stereotypic...
The study was performed to investigate teachers’ attitude towards continuous professional development and to evaluate teachers’ performance after continuous professional development. The study was delimited to Lahore district. All public school teachers teaching secondary clas...
This study aims to investigate the social construction of ideology through the use of words choices in the selected text. It is important to view how socio- political and socio-religious ideologies help in shaping and building identity, and how the author has presented her id...
The study is experimental in nature based on pre-test post-test control group design, with the intent to check the effectiveness of cooperative learning technique for the subject of science at elementary level. Students of grade 8 of Govt. high school Musa Kalan formed the pop...
The ambition of this articulation was to investigate the association of school climate with teacher’s motivation and self esteem. The study was descriptive and survey technique was followed and was delimited to division Gujranwala of the Punjab province of Pakistan. Sample siz...
Pakistani fiction in English, in recent times, has been re-signified and re-contextualized by the forces of the global imaginary, in particular by the authors residing in various parts of the globe, and the national imaginary seems to have been eclipsed or over-shadowed by the...
The study was conducted to find out the difference in the self-regulation and social adjustment of children of working and non-working mothers. One thousand eighty students, out of which 540 children of working and 540 non-working mothers’ children were selected randomly from ...
The aim of the current study was to evaluate the effect of various factors of organizational climate on the teaching competencies of teachers in public sector school. Randomly selected 360 secondary school teachers and 900 students of grade 10th participated in this study. The...
This study is conducted to explore the effects of glass ceiling on career advancement of women in Pakistan. Population of the study includes female employees functioning in Private Sector of Punjab Province. Population of the study was female staff belongs to Private sector of...
Throughout the historical kaleidoscope of Pakistan politics, it is evident that women role has not been substantial irrespective of their population size. This article highlights the historical political situation of women role along with challenges and opportunities in their ...
This paper is an attempt to analyze the steps and reforms taken by General Pervez Musharraf towards civilianization from 1999 to 2005. The military’s involvement in political system of Pakistan began from mid 1950’s and always continued verily with respect to nature and scope ...
The refugee problem was a big challenge for the newly established state of Pakistan after 1947. Millions of refugees, who migrated from India, were looking forward to the Government of Pakistan for the provision of food, medicine, accommodation, employment and whatever they ne...
The main purpose of this paper is to find out how the internal crises posing threat to existence of the three important South Asian states; Pakistan, India and Bangladesh. Pakistan is also facing significant changes. Changing dynamics of South Asia after war on terror in Afgha...
China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) is a project between China and Pakistan on economic and geo-strategic grounds. This research examines the news reports, editorials and opinions of the leading American and Indian English newspapers. The contents of these newspapers were ...
This study aims at exploring the perception of parents regarding the effect of media violence on siblings’ behavior. This study was conducted in the province of Punjab collecting data from Multan, Faisalabad and Lahore. Theory of cultivation was employed on the study. The stud...
The study was conducted to evaluate existing curriculum with reference to outcome based teacher education. Mix methodology was used. For qualitative aspects document analysis was conducted and courses of B.Ed. (Hons.) designed by Higher Education commission (HEC) were analyzed...
The present study explores the programs, initiatives, practices and the status of women empowerment in the perspective of SDGs 2030. The present study uses both primary and secondary data to dig down the reality. Research design of the study was descriptive and survey in natur...
This paper aimed at exploring the mediating role of quality of the institution in relationship between “financial development and economic growth” in selected Muslim countriesfrom2000-2017.The results of mediation analysis shows that quality of the institution mediates the lin...
This paper endeavors to probe into the motivational patterns associated with gender in a particular Pakistani social context. For this purpose a self-report questionnaire was used to collect data. The questionnaire included different measures adapted from Gardner (1985), Dorny...
This study investigates the relationship between conflict management and performance of teaching faculty with the mediating role of transformational leadership. Conflicts are unavoidable results of social interaction between individuals, between groups, between organizations d...
This study was intended to find out the effect of different co-curricular activities on the social development and academic achievement of students at secondary level. One thousand two hundred and forty-one (1241) students of session 2012-2014 were taken through simple random ...
The literary works can be seen as a site for representing traumatic experiences and their consequences on individuals. The present study attempts to explore the traumatized consciousness of a ten years old girl, Sylvia in Brown’s Drinking From a Bitter Cup (2014). For the text...
This empirical study has mainly examined the association between inflation and unemployment in Pakistan. The study has used the time series data from 1991 to 2015 and Eviews9 software to examine the existence of Philips Curve in the economy. The empirical results of study rev...
The effect of globalization can be looked from alternate points of view. Observational evidence proposes that nations those opened up observed their wages develop commonly than who did not open up. There has been a serious connection between globalization and wage disparity. I...
The purpose of this paper is to observe the role of organizational learning and knowledge management in organizational performance of service sector in Pakistan. The key aim for carrying on this research is to acknowledge the growing importance of knowledge management and orga...
This study explores the mentoring role of senior colleagues in the professional socialization process of beginning English teachers. The study has employed the survey method for generating the required data from a randomly chosen stratified sample from the colleges located in ...
The development of good citizens is the one of the important tasks which a society has to accomplish in order to produce such citizens. One of the major roles of education is to cultivate such virtues in students. The main objective of the study was to investigate student’s pe...
The motivation behind the investigation was to discover job satisfaction of principals with relation to their styles they employ to lead the human resources of their higher secondary schools. The study was delimited to (225) schools among them (210) were for boys and (215) for...
The current study contributes by researching the associations of levels of offline socialization patterns with the virtual socialization ones. The controlled effects of time for Smartphone usage and gender are also explained. The study utilizes the convenience sampling techniq...
This study aims to examine the complex functioning of Syrian conflict with respect to involvement of various actors like state as well as non-state actors on national, regional and international levels. It analyzes and identifies the actors, their role and strategies and futur...
Business ethics is a code of conduct comprised of social principles and morality for doing business; its purpose is to focus on business practices and policies. A cross-sectional study was conducted. All male Principals, Teachers, Parents, and students of Public, Private Schoo...
This study focused on exploration of students’ attitude towards biology across gender and grade and its relationship with achievement. Population of this study were the secondary school biology students and sample comprised of 9th and 10th grades (male=694, female =659) respon...
The completion of research process principally depends upon the relationship of students and their supervisors. The study recognizes students’ perceptions about their supervisors’ mentoring skills. This study explores the research experiences of PhD Scholars and determines the...
Teachers’ competencies to use digital media in classrooms are concerning variable of interest. Major thirst of the study was to access teachers’ skills and abilities that are directly linked to range of digital media and its practical application during their instruction. In a...
Television is considered to be one of the most influential and powerful medium as it contributes a lot in determining the opinion of children regarding gender roles. In this context, the researchers attempted to investigate that how cartoon characters of different genders are ...
Formative assessment exposed to improve student learning in general, and the objective of the research study was to particularly find out the using of formative assessment to improve practices in the classroom by identifying the gaps in learning. A creative teaching approach i...
The study aimed to explore the teachers’ attitude toward teaching profession at secondary school level. The sample comprised of 736 (428 male and 308 female) Secondary School Teachers (SSTs) selected from administrative division of Sahiwal, Pakistan. Attitude Scale towards Tea...
This qualitative study aims to analyze Triple Oppression faced by African American women using Conceptual Metaphor Theory in the novel How to Make an American Quilt (1992) by Whitney Otto. Triple Oppression as proposed by Jones (2017) involves the categories of race, gender a...
This article presents Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) of Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP). Drawing upon the post structuralist method of deconstruction, this article identifies key persuasive strategies and thematic formations that underlie the rhetoric of Taliban. It seeks t...
This research article aims at understanding the phenomena of mob lynching in India and Pakistan. Over the years, this problem is alarmingly on the rise in the two countries under study. Understanding this issue and finding out solutions is really the need of hour. This article...
This research examines the effect of Facebook and its applications on customers purchase intentions. The study provided an understanding of how customers take notice of company advertisements on Facebook and how these Facebook applications would attract customers to purchase c...
This study investigates the reporting of insurgencies in the five South Asian countries including Afghanistan, India, Pakistan, Nepal and Sri Lanka. One elite newspaper from each of these countries was selected for a period of five years—January 2013 to December 2017. The rese...
This article exclusively discusses how institutional lacks of farsighted policies have deprived doctors of their genuine rights and privileges. Explicating the applicability of theory of Relative Deprivation by Robert Ted Gurr, this research finds how deprivations have strengt...
Moral feature of personality development focuses on the emergence and consideration of morality from infancy to maturity and change. Ideology of morality is defined as individual’s behavior with one another. The objectives of the current study are to compare perceptions regard...
The bachelors of Education programs in the Pakistani public sector universities are promising for competent and skilled future teachers for schools. The current study designed in investigating the perception of teacher educators and prospective teachers regarding the instructi...
This paper aims to explore the causes of low turnout of women in the General elections of Pakistan and KP generally and Peshawar specifically. The study was conducted on the causes of women low participation in the electoral process especially during the last three general ele...
Formative Assessment is essential part of teaching learning process. Formative assessment is used during the teaching-learning process. It is linked with the teaching learning process by exploration, estimation and analysis of record of learning activities. From the analysis...
L2 learning anxiety is a widely studied topic in the field of language learning. Present study aimed to explore secondary school students’ language learning anxiety. Anxiety is a psychological state which hinders students learning and it can also affect students’ classroom pe...
In this era of science and technology human beings are provided with lot of facilities but they have also suffered with severe health issues. The health awareness may save humans from different health problems at earliest as it reaches to severity. As for as the health of stud...
The main objectives of the study were to identify the variables for the acceptance of disable persons in the community and to identify the difficulties faced by them for getting employment. The study makes aware the parents and the community members that they should not just k...
Students have risk taking behavior while driving and can be faced road safety issues. Awareness about road signboards is much important to reduce the ratio of accidents. This study was conducted to check the awareness and practice of the students about road signboards at high...
This study explored the relationship between Teaching Mathematic Anxiety of Female Teachers and Students Learning Achievements. Moreover, a comparison was made on the basis of schools’ type and gender in context of teachers’ anxiety and students’ achievements scores. Explanato...
This paper is an attempt to find out the historical roots, which gave birth to tarnished depiction of Muslim world in Holly wood movies. Hollywood movies are offering a consistent stereo typical image and vilified/abusive picture of Arab Muslim across the decades. It is necess...
This paper aims to analyze the research attitude, interests, and capabilities of university teachers in Pakistan that assist to enhance the quality of higher education at university level. A sample consisting of 250 postgraduate students from six public sector universities was...
The point of composing this article is to discover the role of emotional intelligence in improving the quality of second language learning. Besides, the study examined the job of positive and negative emotions in the subsequent language learning. The five-point rating scale po...
This research study was conducted to discover research students'problems during their research work. It further compared how these problems vary by student gender, program of study and availability of facilities at the concerned university. Instrument of this research was pilo...
The study’s prime objective was to translate in Urdu and validate the 35 items of Mental Health Literacy Scale (MHLS) developed by Matt O’Conner (2015). The methodology of Hambleton & Zenisky (2011) were adopted for translation and validation of MHLS in Pakistani context. The ...
Pakistan came into being on the 14th of August 1947 and become the Islamic Republic of Pakistan in 1956 in her first constitution. Pakistan also consists of many groups of people but Muslims are a dominant community with 96% of the whole population. 4% minority of Pakistan bel...
This study attempts to understand and explain the phenomenon of strategic stability which is closely associated with nuclear weapons and its deterrence. The study tries to evaluate the type of strategic stability that prevailed during the Cold War between the two superpowers a...
This paper is a critical evaluation of two English language tests, Lahore Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education (BISE) and University of Cambridge’s First Certificate English (FCE). These examinations are compared and contrasted and their strengths and weaknesses are e...
Language assessment is not a simple task. Development of assessment requires expertise, commitment and understanding of psychometric aspects of assessment. Reading comprehension is the important component of language assessment tools. This article is based on the development p...
Testing is an integral part of language education. This article aims at analyzing the previously conducted researches related to the effects of rubric on assessment. Assessment has always been an important aspect in language testing. In the arena of research studies related to...
A look at the pages of history reveals that in any civilization the sellers have been heavier than the buyers of products and services. Consumers are still a downtrodden class in many societies today. The same is true of the consumer of Punjab and the biggest reason for this i...
This paper is an endeavor to investigate the contagion effect between energy market and Asian Emerging Equity Markets (AEEMs) during the Eurozone debt crisis. Multivariate GARCH-DCC model is applied on data series from 30-01-2005 to 31-01-2012. The results affirm a significant...
In establishing the performance parameters, performance management has been measured as a significant phenomenon in dealing with the policies, strategies and practices that mainly deals with how the employees behave in an organization and how the organization monitor and evalu...
This study “State, Religion and Religious minorities in Pakistan: Remembering the participation of Christians in Punjab Legislative Assembly 1947-55’ exclusively focuses on their participation of the religious minorities the Christians in Punjab Legislative Assembly in early c...
This article argues Hanif Kureishi as a ‘postcolonial writer’ who emphatically rejects to be called so, although, paradoxically, his biracial foundation, plus the nature and effects of his literary works, categorizes him as a ‘postcolonial writer’. With delimitation of The Bud...
Mentoring is a process for the informal transmission of skills, aptitude, proficiency, shared interaction, and the fair provision in education, livelihood, or professional maturity. Mentoring plays a very vibrant role in the academic development of students. This study explor...
The basic purpose of the study was to explore the school councils' role in elementary school improvement. The nature of the study was qualitative. The population of the study was members of the school council of three public sector boys’ elementary schools in district Sheikhup...
This article deals with the efficacy of the Legal Framework of DHA in achieving the goal of housing for all. This article would highlight various provisions of DHA in the context of provision of housing units to the members of DHA. All the aspects of the regulatory regime posi...
The Cairo Declaration stipulates Islamic version of human rights. It is considered as an alternative instrument to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights by those who believe in the common standards of human rights for all individuals to be protected universally. The mandat...
This study examines the relationship between accounts receivable and value of firm for sample firms in South Asian emerging economies from period 2011 to 2018. Considering two fold effects of costs and benefits of capital invested in receivables, study estimate a nonlinear rel...
The study investigated the mechanism through which abusive supervision impacts employee work engagement. Organizational justice was tested as mediator and resilience as moderator over the aforementioned relationship. A sample of 396 employees was contacted from 3S (Sales, Spa...
Sociology’s inability to symmetrically produce knowledge across its sub disciplines has often been under investigation to highlight the academic marginalization of important social issues. This study investigates how the top journals of Sociology have been treating the issue o...
This study aims to explore how microfinance banks are addressing its clients’ financial, psychological and social capability needs in Pakistan. For this purpose, qualitative technique has been used and data collected through semi-structured in-depth interviews of microfinance ...
The research was designed to highlight the challenges visual impaired students had to experience during their learning opportunities set forth at these institutions. Study targeted the children with visual impairment enrolled in special education institutions at Rawalpindi. A ...
The purpose of this study was to understand and develop teachers’ perceptions about implementing and promoting 21st-century learning skills in TVET Pakistan. The qualitative research design was used, and a focus group session was conducted with purposive sampling of 12 teacher...
The current study aimed to investigate the prevalence of aggression and its association with the academic performance of university students in Pakistan and Australia. The population of the study consisted of students enrolled in public universities in Punjab, Pakistan, and NS...
This study aimed to find out the relationship between locus of control and self-assertiveness among university and college teachers. A total of 100 university/college (private, government) teachers (male=51 and female=49) were chosen from various universities and colleges loca...
Code-switching is a natural linguistic phenomenon that means jumping from one language to another in a dialogue, conversation, and script. This study analyses the socio-linguistic functions and trends of Urdu-English code-switching in the Pakistani Fashion Journalism. The data...
This paper examines challenges and issues of food security in South Asia. It elaborates the current food security scenario of South Asia in comparison with South East Asia as well. As compared to the other regions mainly South East Asia, food insecurity situation has been inte...
The significance of the subjects of social sciences is acknowledged in every part of the world. This is the reason that majority of the students get admission in these subjects which prepare them for successful and bright future. Nowadays, English Language is an integral part ...
This paper investigates influence of religion on National Curriculum design of Pakistan which envelops various empirical and theoretical references reflecting the influence of religion. The purpose behind the perspective of this study is to analyze and determine the influence ...
Over the past two decades, there is a rise and change in a format of storytelling. People have switched themselves from conventional media to new media. Content for entertainment is now produced and distributes in new ways. Such as Web series which is also named as Webisode o...
This paper aims to determine the effect of leadership on the performance of Polytechnic teachers in Pakistan. The objectives are to view the effect of leadership on teacher performance and to examine the effect of leadership on polytechnic teachers, performance. For data colle...