Hamdard Educus

Moderating Effect of AI Learning Behavior on AI Awareness and AI Anxiety of Prospective Teachers in ODL Environment

Dr Nauman A. Abdullah, Hina Amin , sana Amin — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000

The rapid advancement of Artificial intelligence (AI) applications and tools across various domains has introduced many societal challenges in recent times. The fast prevalence of AI development and its practices in the teaching-learning domain demands that students be trained with AI-related skills and applications for improved learning outcomes. Despite AI’s potential boom in the global economy and productivity, many scholars have shown concern that AI technologies have already disrupted and diffused the future workforce and societies. In this context, the present research aimed to explore the role of AI-learning behavior in moderating the AI-awareness and AI anxiety of prospective teachers in an Open and Distance Learning (ODL) environment. This study employed a correlational descriptive design to examine the role of AI-learning behavior in moderating the relationship between AI-awareness and AI anxiety. All students enrolled in the faculty of education in Fall 2023 were considered the study population. Data were collected from the prospective teachers using the AI Anxiety scale (AIA), AI awareness scale (AIA), and AI Learning Behavior questionnaire. The results revealed that AI-learning behavior moderated the relationship between AI anxiety and AI awareness by 16.37% in the Pakistani context.

Investigating Social Entrepreneurship Education in Pakistan: Perspectives from Students, Teachers, and Social Business Visionaries

Shahid Iqbal, Tehseen Anjum, Saeed Ahmed Abro, Ishfaq Ahmed — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000

This study investigated perceptions of social business venture schooling among three critical stakeholders in Pakistan: student’s studies in business and entrepreneurship, teachers in business and entrepreneurship, and social business visionaries. Using purposive sampling technique, the data was collected from 100 learners, 30 Educators, and 20 social business visionaries. The review centers around three essential subjects: gained abilities, mentalities toward social business venture, and boundaries to execution. The study finding indicated that learners see social business schooling as fundamental for cultivating initiative, advancement, and flexibility, with 76% considering these abilities applicable to their profession yearnings. Moreover, 78% of understudies accept that such training would improve their employability. Nonetheless, just 32% revealed approaching assets that help social business venture.. Recognized hindrances incorporate insufficient subsidizing, a lack of prepared teachers, and obsolete educational plans. More than 80% of teachers recognized asset impediments, while 65% highlighted the shortfall of suitable educational program systems. Moreover, 90% of teachers and social business visionaries referred to foundational issues inside the school system as significant hindrances to executing successful social business instruction.

The study show a squeezing need for educational program change, expanded institutional help, and further developed financing to adjust schooling to the rising interest in friendly business venture. Tending to these difficulties is urgent for establishing a strong climate for social business in Pakistan.

Silenced Voices and Orientalist Structures: A Postcolonial Reading of J.M. Coetzee’s Foe

Salma Naz — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000

This study attempts to analyze the mechanisms of silencing and narrative control in Coetzee’s novel Foe through Edward Said’s significant theory Orientalism. The study examines how the novel critiques colonial strategies of domination through representation and silencing, employing McKee’s textual analysis with close reading method. Said’s notion of Orientalism provides a lens through which the silencing of the character Friday is examined. It is argued that Friday becomes an embodiment of the colonized subject who is deprived not only of voice but of agency and history, replicating the Orientalist mechanism of dehumanization. Moreover, it is also emphasized that the silencing extends beyond Friday to encompass Susan Barton, whose narrative is restructured and altered by the male author Foe. This re-authoring echoes the imperial inclination to correct and rewrite indigenous and feminine voices, thereby underlining the epistemic violence that Said identifies as central to colonial discourse. Through its metafictional framework, the novel Foe confuses the construction of truth and authorship and authority while endorsing Said’s concept about Western society’s tendency to imagine one historical truth. Findings reveal that Foe does not merely depict silencing as a thematic concern, but it shows that colonial narratives suppress subaltern identities like Susan’s story is challenged by the male author Daniel Foe in the story. Coetzee challenges the authority of the colonial text by foregrounding the gaps, absences, and erasures that constitute it, thus inviting readers to question the validity of dominant historical and literary traditions.

Impact of Technical and Vocational Education on Students’ Career Productivity at Sukkur Region, Sindh

Dr. Abdul Karim Suhag, Dr. Najmunnisa Khan, Dr. Shahnawaz Tunio — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Technical and Vocational education be carried out to help society move towards career productivity, without skills, knowledgeable and efficient students that cannot meet the varying needs of its environment. Technical and Vocational education has been a basic piece of national advancement because of its effect on profitability and financial improvement. The economic growth of developing states, announces Technical and Vocational education as a key factor. It is normally laid out on the grounds that the variety of instruction that emphasizes the applying of aptitudes, information, and states of mind required for work in an exceedingly unequivocal occupation any field of social and financial action.

The present world and learning focused society should be value based, focused on the regard for mankind, human poise, and work as a supply of self-realization and self-smugness, monetary and social advancement.

This current study addresses the students’ views of Technical and Vocational education for career productivity. The main objective of this study is to find out the impact of Technical and Vocational education on career productivity. The scope of this study is limited to Technical colleges and Vocational centers students’. The population of the students was large and diverse therefore random sampling design was adopted. The overall sample size of students was one hundred and fifty, selected through convenience sampling design.

A questionnaire was adapted from Bandura self-efficacy scale for students. Data was collected through questionnaire distribution and analyzed through SPSS. On the basis of the ANOVA results, the overall model is significant. The hypothesis is rejected and on the basis of regression analysis, it is found that there is a significant impact of Technical and Vocational career productivity. It is recommended that Government should initiate policy and training programs for teachers and students’ career productivity, and it is also recommended that concerned authority should introduce an internship program for students’ better understanding of theoretical work into practical work.

Exploring Career Guidance in Pakistan's Educational Landscape: A Comparative Analysis of Different Counselling Approaches

Ahmed Saya, Rabia Aslam — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000

This study aims to identify the impact of different career counseling approaches on the career decision making of the students. Also, it aims to find which career counseling approach is better and more relevant amongst Pakistani students. The current research investigated whether students had better confidence in taking career related decisions when they acquired career counselling using psychometric testing or were they better off when they were counselled using traditional methods of general guidance and counselling. According to the research it was identified that whichever method is used, the career related decision-making ability of the students will improve. Amongst 3275 participants, 1831 participants were never exposed to any kind of career counselling whereas 1444 participants identified that they have experienced some kind of career counselling. Of these 643 acquired it through psychometric testing while 801 acquired it through general guidance and counselling and hence The Career Decision Self Efficacy-Short Form (CDSE-SF) questionnaire was filled which measured the students’ level of self-confidence in their own ability to take necessary steps for making career decisions. The findings clearly revealed that the students who achieved counselling through psychometric testing had more confidence in career decision making ability compared to those who acquired counselling through general counselling and guidance.