CHICAGO, IL, November 30, 2010 /24-7PressRelease/ --Riaz-UI Haque, President of the Center for Integrative Learning, has been recognized by Cambridge Who's Who for demonstrating dedication, leadership and excellence in reforming education and improving learning.

Even though he is a microbiologist by profession, during his teaching tenure he became keenly aware that as the universities and colleges began to shift their emphasis towards research and away from teaching, they began to diminish or altogether eliminate key courses; causing an ever widening gap in the knowledge base of their students. This gap coupled with the conventional subject based mode of teaching (which is already somewhat fragmented), became increasingly responsible for the poor performance of the students not only in schools and colleges but also at their jobs or professions. The advent of the Internet with its free flow of tested or untested information made the task of learning and identifying dependable information even more difficult.

Dr. Haque also noted that despite this confusion, humans have a built-in tendency to sift and sort, select and discard what they come across, but that process is limited by what they know. The answer to this dilemma was that knowledgeable people need to do the sifting and sorting, selecting and discarding and then integrating the sum total of what remains. That led to the founding of the Center for Integrative Learning.

An unexpected outcome of this Center's work is that as knowledge is sifted and sorted, removing minutia and redundancies from it, it shrinks. Science, for instance, gets reduced to a mere 150 simple concepts and skills. The same happens to the rest of our knowledge of humanities, etc. They also shrink and when their essence is merged with that of science and vice versa, we end up with a holistic collage of practically the whole of our day to day functional knowledge.

And since all this knowledge is integrated with their respective skills, it is easy to learn and use. The process of implementing this form of teaching and learning also reduces much of the stress and anxiety which goes with schooling and learning. This has given rise to a new form of therapy called Technotherapy

Dr. Haque hails from Pakistan where education is in a bigger state of turmoil than anywhere else. He came to the United States in 1957, with a goal to learn and take the missing knowledge back to his homeland. Seeing knowledge slowly but surely disappearing from the USA was a big eye opener for him and he felt the need to conserve and hold the dissipating knowledge for the generation to come, not only for Pakistan but across the globe.

Dr. Haque received his Ph.D. from The Ohio State University in 1963. He is a former member of the New York Academy of Science and the American Society of Microbiology. His interest now lies in improving the quality and the contents of education.

He regards the integrative learning center he established in Chicago as a prototype for other cities and countries to copy and use such centers for teacher training, giving the teachers a more versatile and hands-on teaching background so they can teach in an integrative fashion.

He also wants these centers to be open to the public where parents and children can come and see and use real science instruments such as various kinds of microscopes, the pH meter, centrifuges and the like. This way, the knowledgeable public will also monitor the quality of education the schools and the teachers are imparting and this important aspect of education will not be totally left to the school system and the government.

He is convinced that this form of focused teaching will also be cost effective and would produce the kind of informed citizenry and the analytical manpower the world desperately needs. This system of education would also lead to the development of much needed (and presently missing) infrastructure within many developing countries holding them back in their developmental efforts which is now also happening in the developed countries as they shift more of their emphasis to research away from teaching, which in turn affects the quality and functionality of manpower and the teachers.

For more information about the Center and its educational format visit: www.centerforintegrativelearning.org.

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