Education, Inclusion, Pluralism and United Nations Sustainable Development Goals

Sher Rahmat Khan (PhD), a researcher, pursued multidisciplinary education in Australia, the United Kingdom and Pakistan. Applying a postcolonial lens, Dr Khan analysed the Pakistani education curriculum’s potential to promote inclusion, pluralism and sustainable development. He co-authored COVID-19 and the (Broken) Promise of Education for Sustainable Development: A Case Study from Postcolonial Pakistan (BRILL, 2023).

• Preface: Navigating through Identity and InquiryAcknowledgementsList of Figures and TablesList of Acronyms1 Global Challenges and the Local Contexts: Education for Inclusion, Pluralism and Sustainable Futures in Postcolonial Pakistan1 Contemporary Pakistan and Challenges for Pluralism and Inclusion2 Pluralism and Pakistani Education Systems3 The Role of Education Systems in Promoting Pluralism and Inclusion in Pakistan4 Postcolonial Theories5 The Cultural Politics of Curriculum6 Curriculum Theory7 The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals8 Critical Discourse Analysis: Methodological Framework9 Structure of the Book2 Pakistan: The Advent of a Postcolonial Nation-State1 Introduction2 Postcolonial Theories3 Pakistan: Pre-colonial, Colonial, and Postcolonial History4 Discussion: Neo-Colonialism and the Cultural Politics of Curriculum in Pakistan3 Education Systems in Pakistan and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals Framework1 Introduction2 Pre-colonial and Colonial Education3 Education Systems in Contemporary Pakistan4 The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, Education, and the Possibility of Development in Pakistan5 Discussion: Education Systems, Curriculum, and the Postcolonial Nation-State4 In Search of a Sacred Ground: Islam and the Nation-State’s Quest for National Identity1 Introduction2 Ideological Foundations of the Nation: Finding a Religious Basis for the Secular Institution3 Managing Diversities: The Textbooks’ Approach to Diversity within Islam in Pakistan4 Ideology and Diversity: The Educational Aim of Tolerance and Opportunities for Pluralism5 Discussion: Postcolonial Islamo-pastoral Arts of Government and the Nation-State’s Quest for National Identity5 Official Narratives and National Memory: The Construction of History in the Textbooks1 Introduction2 Selective Inheritance: Partial Appropriation of the Legacies of Syed Ahmad Khan3 The Discursive Construction of the Other: Representing the Hindu4 Nawabadiyat and the Colonial Discourse: Speaking through the Metaphor of the Colonial Masters5 Discussion: The Discursive Construction of History and Its Implications for Diversity and Pluralism6 The Cultural Politics of Gender: PSTs and the Challenges for Women’s Equality and Fairness1 Introduction2 Protecting Women: The Discursive Presentation of Violence against Women3 Subtle Reproduction: Normalising Patriarchy through Textbooks4 Gender Parity: Striving for Gender Rights and Empowering Women5 Discussion: Gender Rights: Negotiating between Tradition and Modernity7 Building a Better Future: The UN SDGs and Reshaping the Cultural Politics of Education in Pakistan1 Pakistan’s Quest for Discourses on Peace, Respect for Diversity and Inclusion: Reshaping the Cultural Politics of Education2 The Promise and Limitations of SDG 4.7 in Reimagining the Cultural Politics of Education in Postcolonial PakistanAppendix: Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)ReferencesIndex