LANGUAGE IN INDIA

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Volume 11 : 1 January 2011
ISSN 1930-2940

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Exploring the Preferences of Aesthetic Needs of
Secondary School Students in Faisalabad in Pakistan

Abdul Ghafoor Nasir, Ph.D. Scholar
Muhammad Mirza, Ph.D.
Muhammad Naseer Ud Din, Ph.D.

Abstract

The present study was designed to identify the preferences of aesthetic needs of the secondary school students of the District Faisalabad in Pakistan.

The data was collected from 10% of students of urban & rural secondary schools. Lack of an adequate instrument to measure the preferences of aesthetic needs, a Self-Reporting Rating Scale (SRRS) was developed. This instrument was included items constructed on the basis of likert scale. The questionnaires based on "SRRS" according to the aesthetic needs of the students, were delivered to the samples of the 248 students of urban and 198 rural secondary schools of the district Faisalabad. The returns from students were 446.

Keywords: Exploring the preferences of aesthetic needs, curriculum development.

Introduction

To derive a set of students aesthetic needs, the researchers, educationists and psychologists have long speculated about the fundamental psychological needs of learners, beginning with McDougall (1908), Jung (1933), Murray (1938), Havighurst (1949), Hull (1951), Maslow (1954), Bloom (1956), Erikson (1963), Luella Cole (1988), Greenberg (1995), Caspi (2000), Brewer (2001), Sheldon (2001), Gray (2002), Kenrick (2003), and Thomas (2003). Research has identified and classified a vast realm of student needs to make fruitful teaching and learning strategies. In addition, researchers and educators focused on the development of new instructional interventions, design projects, reform curricula and innovative technological tools to confront problems of student motivation to enable them to learn from all of these reform efforts (Pintrich, 2003:325).

It is a reality that, in other countries, the researchers, psychologists and educationists have gone deep to explore the potentials of a variety of needs. But, in Pakistan, neither any commission on national education nor any education policy proposed or recommended research studies to assess and identify the student needs, wants, urges, aims and motives, etc. Because of this, within a short time, all curricula have lost their values and slowed down the achievement of educational objectives.

Thus, the information about the nature of the learner is an important source for curriculum development. So, the focus of the present study is upon the identification of preferences of aesthetic needs, which may influence curriculum development. The identification of those needs is also necessary before a suitable strategy is identified and the process for the development of the curriculum starts, because the curriculum is the nerve system of education.

A Major Question

The question that remains to be answered is: What are the students' preferences of aesthetic needs, which may serve as pre-requisites for the successful development of the curriculum?

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Abdul Ghafoor Nasir, Ph.D. Scholar
Govt. High School Samundri
Samundri, Faisalabad
Pakistan
ghafoornasir@yahoo.com

Muhammad Mirza, Ph.D.
Govt. College of Education for Men
Lahore
Pakistan

Muhammad Naseer Ud Din, Ph.D.
Institute of Education and Research
Kohat University and Science Technology - (KUST)
Kohat- Khyber Pakthunkawa
Pakistan
drmnaseeruddin@yahoo.com

 
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