dealing with social pressures a presentation by abbas husain director teachers’ development centre
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Dealing with Social Pressures
A Presentation by ABBAS HUSAIN
Director Teachers’ Development Centre
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• The 21st century is a good time to be young…
• As well as a very hard time to be young.
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Today the entire knowledge of the world is available at a single click…
And yet there is an enormous ignorance of the basics of good decent living.
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Why is this so?
MODERNITY ITSELF MUST BE SEEN
AS A SOURCE OF THESE TENSIONS
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MODERNITY• COMPLEXITY
• INTERCONNECTEDNESS
• UNCERTAINTY
• DESTRUCTIVE POWER IN THE HANDS OF AN INDIVIDUAL ON A LARGE SCALE
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1. COMPLEXITY• WE ARE PARTICIPANTS TO A
LAYERED COMPLEX WORLD
• SOCIALLY• POLITICALLY • ECONOMICALLY• INTERNATIONALLY• ECOLOGICALLY
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2.INTERCONNECTEDNESS
• A WIDELY CONNECTED WORLD
E.G. INTERNET
…A VIOLENT STIR SOMEWHERE ELSE…
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3.UNCERTAINTY
• No more are there pockets of relative certainty
• The speed with which new jobs are being created for new niche markets is remarkable…
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4. GREAT CAPACITY TO HARM
• One virus can wipe out years of data from an entire range of computers
• One person can influence thousands …for good and evil together…..
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THESE ARE TO ME THE FOUR FEATURES OF MODERNITY
• And young people must do twelve things in this intense fast changing culture which is defined by Stephen Covey as
“PERMANENT WHITEWATER”
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The Young Person Must:
1. Adjust to a new physical sense of self
2. Adjust to new intellectual abilities
3. Adjust to increased cognitive demands at school
4. Develop expanded verbal skills
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The Young Person Must:
5. Develop a personal sense of identify
6. Establish adult vocational goals
7. Establish emotional and psychological independence from his or her parents
8. Develop stable and productive peer relationships
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The Young Person Must:
9. Learn to manage her or his sexuality
10. Adopt a personal value system
11. Develop increased impulse control and behavioral maturity
12. Develop a keen interest in the spiritual resources of our own traditions
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You can see that is a daunting checklist for the most balanced and normal young person…
What to speak of people like us?
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This brings us to the
confrontation of modernity
with youth and I will present
it as three contradictions.
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Three Contradictions
Competition and success
Brotherly love and humility
First Contradiction
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Second Contradiction
Stimulation of our needs
Factual frustrations in satisfying them
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Third Contradiction
Alleged freedom of the individual
All his factual limitations
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The twelfth point in the checklist was awareness of spiritual traditions
And I now wish to turn to our traditional response to the four points of modernity
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So here are the resources on each point
Islam offers a modality of thinking about each of the features of modernity
Against complexity it offers a metaphysics of such marvels that mankind has yet to appreciate its breadth and depth
PHYSICS AND METAPHYSICS….
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For interconnectedness
It offers a picture of the human family and the worth and value of each human being as a creature of God with remarkable consistency
walaqad karramna bani Adam…
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For uncertainty
It speaks of the certainty of the human experience against the drifting nature of the media images and the onslaught of novelty
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And about the capacity to harm
Islam makes a democratic appeal for spirituality by inviting each person to realize the spiritual quest, and then saying:
Whoever saves a human life saves all mankind
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A Recipe for Self-Management
Focus on sharing
Focus on language
Focus on time
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FOCUS ON SHARING
• Young people need to understand that the most powerful influence on their lives is from other young people. So they have to take over and take charge. This is a focus on sharing.
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FOCUS ON LANGUAGE
• The fluency of speech by which one is able to express the intention of the heart.
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FOCUS ON TIME
• Put your time to good use, improve your skills.
The decades ahead will be extremely unforgiving of people who do not have the skills.
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I would like to conclude on two powerful thoughts
Surely Allah does not change the condition of a people until they change that which is in themselves
---Surah Ra’ad, 13:11
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And help you one another in in righteousness and piety, but help not one another in sin and rancour
Surah Maidah, 5:2
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THANK YOU
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ABBAS HUSAINDirector
Teachers’ Development Centre
129-G Block 2 PECHS Karachi 75400
http://www.tdc.edu.pkE-mail: [email protected]
Tel: 021-4310217/4392949