This article explores the implications for identity through presenting a detailed analysis of how three British Pakistani women narrated their involvement in higher education. The increased participation of British South Asian women in higher education has been hailed as a major success story and is said to have enabled them to forge alternative, more empowering gender identities in comparison to previous generations. Drawing on generative narrative interviews conducted with three young women, we explore the under-researched area of Pakistani Muslim women in higher education. The central plotlines for their stories are respectively higher education as an escape from conforming to the “ good Muslim woman”; becoming an educated mother; and Muslim women can “ have it all.” Although the women narrated freedom to choose, their stories were complex. Through analysis of personal “I” and social “We” self-narration, we discuss the different ways in which they drew on agency and fashioned it within social and structural constraints of gender, class and religion. Thus, higher education is a context that both enables and constrains negotiations of identity.

This paper tries to identify the factors that hinder implementing Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) in the secondary schools in rural Bangladesh. This article takes a qualitative approach, and it is carried out in four rural schools in Banskhali, which is situated in Chittagong district in Bangladesh. Eight secondary level English language teachers were interviewed to generate data about the problems in implementing CLT in their respective institutions. The findings indicate several challenges that include: shortage of skilled teachers, unusually large class size, deficiency of modern materials used in CLT oriented classrooms, etc. This research may provide implications for the language policy makers and the practitioners for the improvement of CLT practices in the rural contexts of Bangladesh.IIUC Studies Vol.13 December 2016: 93-102

This article addresses the challenges and effectiveness of implementing Eclectic Method in Language Teaching at higher secondary level in the rural context of Bangladesh. This paper adopts a qualitative approach, and six rural colleges are selected to conduct the research. These institutions are located in Chittagong District, Bangladesh. Ten English teachers were interviewed face-to-face to collect data about the challenges they have faced and the effectiveness they observed in applying Eclectic Approach in their colleges. The findings show the applicability of Eclectic Approach in several ways that include flexibility in teaching, variety in adapting language teaching aspects, allowing new ideas, dynamic classroom facilities, enhancing teachers’ and students’ respect for cross-culture and multi-lingual classroom. The findings indicate some hurdles in teaching English that include lack of trained teachers, improper text books, teachers’ insufficient knowledge, rigid mentality of the rural teachers, insufficient infrastructural facilities, and taking pride in mother-language etc. This research may help the policy makers of language and curriculum design in developing effective strategies for Eclectic practices in rural Bangladesh. IIUC Studies Vol.17, December 2020: 73-86

This paper deals with the process of university education system, how students will enrich the knowledge and skills, develop the power of reasoning and judgments and promote the creativity. It also advocates a holistic approach in liberal education system that preserves a harmonious relationship among the real cultivation of mind, intellectual excellence and freedom of thought. Newman’s The Idea of a University and Hirani’s3 Idiots have been studied in line with liberal education of university which gives the enlargement of knowledge that pertains to the universal appeal of education system. In this study, some barriers, such as, market value, guardian’s choice and mental depression are addressed as the potential threats for liberal education. Therefore, this research is an attempt to make a comparative study of Newman’s The Idea of a University and Hirani’s3 Idiots as illustrating the liberal education of university and generating an image of liberal education in present society. IIUC Studies Vol.17, December 2020: 43-54

ed.), RACIALIZED MIGRANT WOMEN IN CANADA: ESSAYS ON HEALTH, VIOLENCE AND EQUITY, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2009, x' 329 pp., $35.00 (paper).Racialized Migrant Women in Canada represents an excellent contribution to the literature on immigration and gender. Too often the plight of immigrant women is ignored, as scholars defer to more generalized discussions on race and ethnicity. While gender may be discussed within these contexts, the contribution nonetheless fails to cover the scope and complexity necessary to do immigrant women justice. Vijay Agnew's edited volume fills an important void within the immigration discourse, focusing on three key areas: health; violence; and equity. Her introduction provides a crucial overview of the factors that influence these areas, and also provides vital background information within the Canadian context. A key term she notes is racialization, which influences many aspects on the immigration continuum, especially for migrant women. Moreover, she provides a review of immigration policy in Canada, which helps frame the debate for both contributors and readers.The book is divided into three sections: violence; health; and equity. The discourse on violence, immigration and gender is often overlooked, but, as this work demonstrates, its importance cannot be underscored. The contributors to this section outline the difficulties that migrant women encounter as they seek recourse from their abusive relationships. The research demonstrates that migrant women are oftentimes caught within a political vortex that continues to draw them back into the cycle of abuse. Power, threats, social stigma and intimidation all play key roles in migrant women's continued oppression. Indeed, there is an unnerving realization that Canada's immigration system is also at fault, protecting the sponsor at the expense of the sponsored.The second section focuses on migrant women's access to healthcare, focusing specifically on determinants of health, policy implications, elder migrants' access to care, and the use of social capital. The authors seem to be in agreement regarding the lack of supports available to migrant women and the influence that the absence of these supports has on health outcomes. Unfortunately, the chapters fail to discuss in detail the supports that do exist, as well as the contribution that service provider organizations play in supporting migrant women. Too often scholars focus on government intervention at the expense of the nongovernment sector. Moreover, this section's focus is on migrant women's experiences in larger centers, where waitlists for services can be quite lengthy. Therefore, it is important to recognize that many migrant women have ready access to supports in smaller centers, and these areas are not to be painted with the same broad brushstroke as their larger counterparts.The third section, equity, deviates somewhat from the overall intent of the book. While the focus remains on the experiences of migrant women, these chapters tend to focus more on traditio...