:Bernadette Louise Dean
{{Short description|Pakistani academic and educator}}
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| birth_place = Mirpur, Azad Kashmir, Pakistan
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| education = Ph.D
| alma_mater = University of Alberta, Canada
| occupation = Academic, educator
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| employer = University of Central Asia
| known_for = Principal of Kinnaird College, Lahore
| boards = St. Patrick's College (Karachi)
Founder Member, Association of Social Studies Educators and Teachers
Founder Member, South Asian Forum for Education Development
| awards = Civic Educator Award 2008
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Bernadette Louise Dean is a Pakistani academic and educator, of Portuguese and Anglo-Indian descent. Formerly the principal of two women's colleges in Pakistan and a participant in revising Pakistan's national curriculum, she was accused of being a foreigner and forced to leave the country in 2015 by death threats from Islamic extremists after being accused of working to secularize school textbooks. She has since become an academic administrator at the University of Central Asia.
Education
Dean did her schooling at St. Lawrence’s Girls School, Karachi and then studied at St. Joseph's College, Karachi.{{citation needed|date=January 2018}}
She completed an M.Sc (Psychology) at the University of Karachi, and earned her M.Ed (Teacher Education) from the Aga Khan University's Institute for Educational Development.
She later earned a Ph.D. in education in 2000 from the University of Alberta, Canada. Her dissertation, Islam, Democracy and Social Studies Education: A Quest for Possibilities, was supervised by Terry Carson.{{cite web|url=http://www.quasar.ualberta.ca/cpin/news_notes/Oct_00.htm|title=News and Notes|publisher=University of Alberta Department of Secondary Education|date=October 2000|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060525164858/http://www.quasar.ualberta.ca/cpin/news_notes/Oct_00.htm|archive-date=25 May 2006}}
Career
In 1983, Dean was working as a social worker in Pakistan's only clinic for heroin addicts.{{cite news|url=https://www.csmonitor.com/1983/1220/122011.html|newspaper=The Christian Science Monitor|first=David K.|last=Willis|date=20 December 1983|title=Sugarcane, not opium: one drug answer?}} She joined the Aga Khan University Institute for Educational Development in 1996.{{cite web|url=http://www.aku.edu/ied/people/bd.shtml|archive-date=21 August 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080821201622/http://www.aku.edu/ied/people/bd.shtml|title=Bernadette L. Dean|work=Faculty|publisher=Aga Khan University Institute for Educational Development}} She was promoted to the rank of assistant professor at the university in 2000.
By 2008 she was an associate professor, and head of academic and student affairs at the university. In December 2008, she was awarded the Centre for Civic Education Pakistan’s Civic Educator Award 2008.[http://dailymailnews.com/200812/20/news/dmcitypage01.html Profile], The Daily Mail, 20 December 2008. {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081227133143/http://dailymailnews.com/200812/20/news/dmcitypage01.html |date=27 December 2008 }}
In 2009, Dean was appointed as the principal of Kinnaird College in Lahore, a prestigious women's institution in Pakistan.{{cite news |title=Broadening partnerships stressed |url=https://nation.com.pk/23-Aug-2009/broadening-partnerships-stressed |accessdate=30 November 2019 |work=The Nation (Pakistan) |date=23 August 2009}}{{cite web |title=Education |url=http://www.goansofpakistan.org/ed.htm |website=Goans of Pakistan |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20190528163827/http://www.goansofpakistan.org/ed.htm |archivedate=28 May 2019|url-status=usurped}} She resigned in 2010,{{Cite web |url=http://www.kinnairdcollege.org/Announcements.aspx |title=Kinnaird College Association USA website |access-date=28 July 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110726223653/http://www.kinnairdcollege.org/Announcements.aspx |archive-date=26 July 2011 |url-status=dead |df=dmy-all }} to become principal of St. Joseph’s College for Women. At St. Joseph’s Dean introduced a computer science programme for intermediate students and a four-year BBA programme.{{cite news|url=http://tribune.com.pk/story/467410/new-principal-says-goodbye-to-her-first-batch/ |newspaper=The Express Tribune|date=18 November 2012|first=Rabia|last=Ali|title=New principal says goodbye to her first batch}} In 2014, she left St. Joseph's College to join the VM Institute for Education, Karachi, as its director.{{cite news|url=http://www.dawn.com/news/1095516|newspaper=Dawn|date=26 March 2014|title=Challenges to gender equity in schools explored|first=Shazia|last=Hasan}}
In early 2015, Dean was a member of the advisory committee on curriculum and textbook reform and the Sindh Textbook Board when Muslim religious leaders from the Punjab and Sindh began complaining about her work, accusing her of being a foreign woman who was writing curricula and textbooks that were secular and against Islam. She was denounced at the April All-Parties Conference at the Karachi Press Club organized by the Jamaat-e-Islami and its student wing, the Islami Jamiat Talaba. In May, she received phone calls threatening her life and she fled the country.{{cite news|title=Senior educationist Dr Bernadette leaves Pakistan after receiving death threats |url=https://www.dawn.com/news/1181357|newspaper=Dawn|date=12 May 2015}}{{cite news|title=Catholic Educator Flees Pakistan amid 'Hate Campaign' by Islamic Extremists|url=https://morningstarnews.org/2015/07/catholic-educator-flees-pakistan-amid-hate-campaign-by-islamic-extremists/|newspaper=Morning Star News|date=6 July 2015}}
After leaving Pakistan, Dean became the associate dean for arts and sciences at the University of Central Asia, an international university with campuses in the Kyrgyz Republic, Tajikistan, and Kazakhstan.{{cite web|url=http://www.ucentralasia.org/About/UcaStaff|title=UCA Staff|accessdate=21 January 2018|archive-date=22 January 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180122091413/http://www.ucentralasia.org/About/UcaStaff|url-status=dead}}
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