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On Improving Social Science Education in Pakistan

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How do we arrest the decline of the social sciences in Pakistan? Is it a matter of money or one of sending more students to the West who might then return to teaching at the local universities? In this article I argue that the solution lies elsewhere. Borrowing frames, concepts, and analytical techniques based on the concept of universalism runs a serious risk of imposing alien views on local problems. Moreover, attempts to become ‘scientific’ requires side stepping value judgments of good and bad. The current Western domination of the intellectual scene favours a single route for social science development, and kills all diversity. However, whilst we may borrow as much as we choose, we need to build our own frames that would underpin the social sciences, and this is possible only by reconnecting with our own past.

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  • Zaman, Asad, 2008. "On Improving Social Science Education in Pakistan," MPRA Paper 10477, University Library of Munich, Germany.
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    1. Asad Zaman, 2012. "Crisis in Islamic Economics: Diagnosis and Prescriptions أزمة الاقتصاد الإسلامي: التشخيص والحلول," Journal of King Abdulaziz University: Islamic Economics, King Abdulaziz University, Islamic Economics Institute., vol. 25(1), pages 143-166, January.

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    Eurocentricism; Western Universalism; Positive Science; History of Social Science; Western Social Science;
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    • A12 - General Economics and Teaching - - General Economics - - - Relation of Economics to Other Disciplines
    • B29 - Schools of Economic Thought and Methodology - - History of Economic Thought since 1925 - - - Other
    • B59 - Schools of Economic Thought and Methodology - - Current Heterodox Approaches - - - Other

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