{"id":593,"date":"2014-10-27T04:41:25","date_gmt":"2014-10-27T04:41:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/habib.edu.pk\/HU-news\/?p=593"},"modified":"2025-07-25T16:57:05","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T11:57:05","slug":"teachers-must-get-to-know-students-and-then-learn-how-to-teach-them-spivak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/habib.edu.pk\/HU-news\/teachers-must-get-to-know-students-and-then-learn-how-to-teach-them-spivak\/","title":{"rendered":"Teachers must get to know students and then learn how to teach them: Spivak"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><strong>KARACHI: Professor Gayatri Chakrovorty Spivak is perhaps the most befitting person to be the keynote speaker in a conference on postcolonial higher education.<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>A leading authority on postcolonial study and feminism, Spivak has had transformative impact on the production of knowledge at highest levels, according to Habib University School of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences acting dean Dr Nauman Naqvi. 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