Animating Cultural Essence: Translating Pashto Literature into Digital Storytelling

Rabeea Yousafzai, Dr. Suffi Bilal Khalid, Maham Iqbal — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 08:03:19 +0000

Literature of a specific region is source of diffusing the knowledge of varied culture, rituals, history, tradition, stories and much information reflecting the timeline of different cultures and communities (Klarl 2010). The research follows a practice-led approach, combining creative output, content analysis, and exploration of past research. It explores how literature from a specific language can be adapted into a digital medium, making it accessible to a broader audience without compromising its essence. Primary and Secondary sources are used and after careful deliberation the literary work Ghani Khan's "Reidi Gul," was selected for its modernist essence and relevance (ALi 2014).

The project explores the context of the poem and translates it into an interactive visual story. The resulting animated film encapsulates the essence of the poem, utilizing story, animation, production management, cultural music, sound design, and Pashto voice-over to engage the audience. Moreover, it aims to preserve Pashto literature and folk traditions using digital mediums.

The modern digital era has transformed communication mediums entirely, impacting the dissemination of cultural knowledge, history, and traditions embedded in regional literature (Edwards 2015). This practice led research project aims to find how cultural literature of a specific language can be presented in a digital medium of animation, making it understandable to an audience on a broader scale, without affecting its essence and originality.

Compare the Levels of Wellness among Secondary School Head Teachers on the basis of their Gender in Challenging Work Environment

Muhammad Bilal, Dr. Fareeha Sami, Muhammad Touseef Khizer — Fri, 07 Nov 2025 16:36:00 +0000

The main focus of study was to identify the level of wellness according to the gender of secondary school head teachers in challenging work environment through self-evaluation and evaluation by their subordinates’ staff. The main hypothesis of the study was that there was no significant difference between secondary school head teachers’ wellness with respect to the gender. Population in this study was all the secondary school head teachers, teachers and non- teaching staff of government secondary schools of district Sargodha. Quantitative research approach with survey techniques were used for data collection. For the selection of participants from Government secondary school, multistage sampling technique was used. From 173 Government secondary schools of Tehsil Sargodha, 43male and 43 female secondary schools were selected randomly. Within each school one head teacher, one SST, one Est and one non-teaching staff (both male and female) were selected by using stratified sampling. In total 256 subordinates’ staff, 128 males and 128 females’ subordinates’ staff were randomly selected. Two self-developed questionnaires were used as relevant instruments to gather data from respondents. Descriptive statistics such as frequency, percentage, mean and standard deviation were used in analyzing data and report the study results, while independent sample T-test was used to measure the difference between male and female secondary school head teachers’ wellness. The main conclusion of the study was that there were no significant gender-based differences in wellness between secondary school head teachers; both male and female head teachers face similar challenges, with females being more conscious and males showing more confidence towards their wellness. On the base of this conclusion it was recommended that wellness programs should not be divided by gender but should address different coping styles while promoting equal opportunities, supportive environments, and integrated wellness policies for all head teachers.

Research Journal of Social Sciences and Economics Review

Animating Cultural Essence: Translating Pashto Literature into Digital Storytelling

Compare the Levels of Wellness among Secondary School Head Teachers on the basis of their Gender in Challenging Work Environment