Philosophy & Culture

Philosophical basis of Education Policy of Bangladesh Sarwar Kamal Abstract: The National Education Policy formulated by the Committee led by Professor Kabir Chowdhury, is an elaborated action plan that was stemmed from guiding values or philosophical basis. To understand the pattern of education policy, it’s feasibility and implications, it is necessary to know philosophical basis and guiding values of the policy. This paper is a humble attempt to explore Philosophical basis of the National Education Policy of Bangladesh-2010. Different philosophical theories, in a single policy, have created Khichuri (Biriani) phenomena. It’s very unlikely in other parts of the world. Some contradictory philosophy might produce adverse result other than achieving policy goals. Key Words: Education Policy, Philosophy of Education, Public Policy, Bangladesh Perspective. Preliminaries It’s now forty years that Bangladesh has become an independent nation state, fighting a bloody battle against Pakistani ...

Preliminaries For various reasons, social fabric in Bangladesh is subtle, as it transforms keeping pace with complex fusion of defining factors, invisibly stems from historical background as well as global influence. Social structure evolve and get it’s essential shape from socio-political change through flexible adoption and adjustment of new values, generated thanks to different political movements and inflow of knowledge, system of thoughts or power structure systems. All those exotic things have a germinating ground in this country due, partly to colonial legacy and post-colonial agents of scholarship, produced by area studies centers in different parts of the globe. Notwithstanding a post-colonial belief system impinges upon it, still society is getting its shape with the line of knowledge and power dynamics and political legitimacy. This paper is to explore how knowledge and power is interrelated with politics in the context of Bangladesh society. There is a hypothesis that know...

Difference between Traditional epistemology and Contemporary epistemology Epistemology is a branch of philosophy which deals with the source, means and limit of the knowledge. The prime concern of epistemology is found in Plato’s dialogue Theateatus, where Plato exposited a definition of knowledge. That justified true belief is knowledge, is not a definition on which Plato had faith, justified by sufficient reasons. From Platonic dialogue to present day philosophical concern, still this area begs unending debate to answer this classic question. But there is a paradigm shift, explicitly diversified philosophical endeavor to find a satisfactory answer to several questions like what knowledge is, how we can know something or about justification of knowledge etc. So a traditional epistemology stemmed from skeptic challenge in Greek age, turned to be analytic and psychoanalytic one in modern age. Philosophers from Vienna circles and analytic philosophers extended area of epistemology and...

Welcome to Philosophy Sarwar Kamal INTRODUCTION 1.1 Philosophy: Philosophy is regarded as an abstract subject far removed from the practical life, hardly understood by philosophers, let alone so called educated men. A person from any other discipline, though surprising, may ask what philosophy is. But it is too embrassing a question to answer, not only for new comers in philosophy but also for distinguished philosophers. Though most of us have vague understanding about philosophy, it is a curious fact that, we use the term frequently in our daily conversation. [1] Whatever be the proper usage and general perception of the people, philosophy is thought to be an extremely complex intellectual activity. Philosophy is indispensably linked with human thinking, firstly not to answer, but to ask questions about human existence, origin of nature or universe, relation of man with nature and about ultimate reality. In ancient age men were in bewilderment and wonder about the environment he lives...