BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 X-WR-CALNAME:EventsCalendar PRODID:-//hacksw/handcal//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York LAST-MODIFIED:20240422T053451Z TZURL:https://www.tzurl.org/zoneinfo-outlook/America/New_York X-LIC-LOCATION:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZNAME:EDT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 DTSTART:19700308T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZNAME:EST TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 DTSTART:19701101T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:College of Arts and Sciences,Thesis/Dissertations DESCRIPTION:Advisor - Dr Christopher Clinton Committee members - Dr. Denise Baxter, Dr Mark Paige Abstract - This autoethnographic dissertation argue s that the absence of art education from Pakistan’s formal education pol icies is not an oversight but a durable governance architecture rooted in colonial epistemology and reproduced through curriculum, examinations, and teacher credentialing. Since 1947, art education is positioned as cultura l symbolism rather than state-accountable knowledge—rarely mandated, exa mined, or resourced at scale. Integrating analytic autoethnography with in terpretive policy analysis and a bounded South Asian regional comparison, the study introduces Disciplined Liminal Otherhood (DLO), a framework for analyzing how colonial institutional design, postcolonial policy absence, neoliberal market logics, and digital platform dependencies converge to pr oduce learners who are credentialed within Western frameworks yet epistemi cally displaced from indigenous knowledge systems. Analysis of Punjab’s federal-to-provincial policy pipeline identifies a three-stage curricular mechanism—compulsory installation, elective containment, and bureaucrati c erasure—rendering art education structurally invisible in curriculum, examinations, and teacher preparation. Pakistan’s 2024 National Educatio n Policy Draft Framework devotes eighty-seven pages to educational reform without mentioning art education once. The dissertation proposes a graduat ed decolonial intervention model, arguing that decolonization requires epi stemological transformation rather than institutional reform alone.\nEvent page: https://www.umassd.edu/events/cms/phd-dissertation-defense-by-aneek a-ehsan-cheema-.php X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

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Committee members - Dr. Denise Baxter\, Dr Mark Paige

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Ab stract - This autoethnographic dissertation argues that the absence of art education from Pakistan’s formal education policies is not an oversight but a durable governance architecture rooted in colonial epistemology and reproduced through curriculum\, examinations\, and teacher credentialing. Since 1947\, art education is positioned as cultural symbolism rather tha n state-accountable knowledge—rarely mandated\, examined\, or resourced at scale. Integrating analytic autoethnography with interpretive policy an alysis and a bounded South Asian regional comparison\, the study introduce s Disciplined Liminal Otherhood (DLO)\, a framework for analyzing how colo nial institutional design\, postcolonial policy absence\, neoliberal marke t logics\, and digital platform dependencies converge to produce learners who are credentialed within Western frameworks yet epistemically displaced from indigenous knowledge systems. Analysis of Punjab’s federal-to-prov incial policy pipeline identifies a three-stage curricular mechanism—com pulsory installation\, elective containment\, and bureaucratic erasure—r endering art education structurally invisible in curriculum\, examinations \, and teacher preparation. Pakistan’s 2024 National Education Policy Dr aft Framework devotes eighty-seven pages to educational reform without men tioning art education once. The dissertation proposes a graduated decoloni al intervention model\, arguing that decolonization requires epistemologic al transformation rather than institutional reform alone.

Event page : https://www.umassd.edu/events/cms/phd-dissertatio n-defense-by-aneeka-ehsan-cheema-.php

DTSTAMP:20260407T165417 DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260424T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260424T120000 LOCATION:CVPA 107 SUMMARY;LANGUAGE=en-us:PhD Dissertation Defense by Aneeka Ehsan Cheema UID:0f5da42be01ffb22809bb98bed5a018a@www.umassd.edu END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR