“Do not limit their learning by taking them back in time” – An Interview with Abbas Husain
Ayesha Amin Usman interviews TDC Director Abbas Husain for ChalkTalk.Read More
News & Stories
Abbas Husain In The Loop
Abbas Husain featured in Interloop’s biannual newsletter for conducting the ‘Personal Effectiveness Toolkit’ workshop.Read More
TDC at First Metro Kids Carnival
The keynote address was by Abbas Husain, director, Teachers Development Centre (TDC).Read More
Notes from 33rd SPELT Conference, Karachi
We are not moving towards liquid modernity, says Abbas Husain, we are already here! We must stop analysing our methologies from the lens of our own times. We must not repeat the past, we must be willing to adapt to this new world. Read More
International Conference on Experiential Learning (ICEL) 2017
TDC director Abbas Husain spoke on a panel discussion on creativity in contemporary schooling; the panelists spoke at length about the scope of creativity in our increasingly regimented schooling systems — the question of new methodologies and approaches in education were discussed alongside the limitations of existing systems.Read More
The question of quality
It’s not just the number of out-of-school children that is worrisome, but also the quality of education they are providedRead More
An absent history
If historians can’t at times makes sense of history, what hope do regular folk have? This was one of the threads discussed at the session titled ‘Skewed history: How history dies in the syllabus’ at the opening day of the KLF on Friday.Read More
Abbas Husain speaks to teachers at ICEL-2016
The platform was created with the aim to share the experiences and research of stakeholders fora major paradigm shift, from conventional instruction to learning by doing. The convention also included several panel discussions, research papers, workshops, poster presentations and various case studies on challenges of implementation, faculty development and the environment.Read More
Correlation between God, man and universe
An Urdu translation of Prof Sadiq Unqa’s book Hayat Ke Makhfi Zavyey compiled and edited by Nargis Murtaza was launched at the Arts Council Karachi on Tuesday evening.Read More