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Research and Instruction Approach
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It is neither possible nor desirable to set in advance a rigid design for the approaches to research and instruction of the Institute or to evaluate, in detail, what has been achieved so far. An organic development as is envisaged for the Institute has depended and shall continue to depend on what the scholars bring to the Institute or how the patterns of research develop. The scholar-research from diverse fields form a cohesive team being organically bound in interdisciplinary program of research and instruction. Efforts have so far been made to gear M.Phil. and Ph.D. degree programs to the research activities of the Institute. Students seeking those degrees from the Institute, on the one hand, familiarize themselves with the history, culture and society of Bangladesh, and on the other, comprehend the necessary inter-relatedness of a wide-spectrum of academic disciplines bearing on their area of study imbued with a sense of direction. The nation has to constantly, seek and refine knowledge for action in the problem areas of identity, societal integration and development. The Institute deals with these interdependent problem areas for research. The approach, therefore, has always been multi-disciplinary.
Being highly selective in the recruitment of staff, the IBS expects to be a centre of excellence and maintain an efficient system of instruction, research, publication, documentation, and administration, for which innovative practices are to be adopted. To this end the Institute has already adopted for its degree programs the course and the semester system. Students and Research fellows are trained to develop an analytical mind, and an insight into the interdisciplinary approach. Their eventual absorption in university departments degree colleges, and research organizations contributes to the improvement in teaching and research in the country.
While the scope of the IBS is national, due attention is also paid to cooperate teaching and research between the Institute and relevant departments of the Rajshahi University. The Institute makes special efforts to train up personnel keeping in view the needs of the departments, especially facilitating introduction of new and useful fields, such as social science, research methodology, anthropology, communication. demography, village studies, ethnic arts, historiography, intellectual history, folk culture, etc.
The IBS tries to build up an exchange program with international academic community. As it processes to extend affiliation to foreign scholars to come to Bangladesh and conduct research in the Institute, so the Institute also supports, for higher studies aboard, its faculty, affiliated researchers and students on the basis of their having fulfilled course and/or research work pertaining to the life, society, and development issues of Bangladesh.
The Institute also seeks to bring government resource personnel and university teachers in closer interaction through seminars, symposia and action research. It is hoped that this will also help the Institute to collect and process useful government source materials to aid research and instruction. The Institute also seeks to provide link between the University and the society at large especially rural Bangladesh through in depth and action-oriented field research.
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