From secret houses to an integrated curriculum of the Kurdish language story

Hawker Carpenter / News Center

Despite the exposure of Kurdistan, the cradle of human civilization over thousands of years to the various policies of repression, denial and genocide and the melting of languages ​​through titration, Arabization and devotionalization, but the Kurds have maintained their mother tongue in various literary and intellectual methods and the language approach spoken amid the policies of marginalization so that the Kurds had no chance to open a school One where they live their cultural existence.

The Kurdish people have maintained their language despite all the policies

The authoritarian regimes and the occupied dictatorship of the four Kurdish regions tried to prevent and eliminate the Kurdish language. However, thanks to the insistence of the Kurdish people to uphold their identity and language, hundreds of teachers and teachers of the Kurdish language throughout Kurdistan, despite all the harsh conditions they faced, remained self-sufficient.

The Kurdish people view its language as meaning its identity and existence and is considered a necessity of life and the issue of existence or non-existence, and is considered a lethal weapon directed against the enemies of the Kurdish people.

As a result, if the Kurdish people lose their language, it loses one of the basic factors of its existence as a nation, and the Kurdish Language Foundation, civil institutions and official bodies have sought to use it in writing all its decisions and reports.

The Kurds insisted on learning their language despite the practices of the Baathist regime

Before the revolution, the Kurds were deprived of the right to learn in their mother tongue, in an attempt by the ruling regimes to eliminate the existence and Kurdish identity, but these regimes did not reach the extent because the Kurdish people insisted that they learn their mother tongue to preserve their identity and national existence, they were receiving Kurdish lessons Initially, the characters were shortened to expand gradually by opening courses in hidden houses and in Kurdish villages away from the eyes of those tyrannical regimes.

Konfransat Foundation of the Kurdish language had a role in the organization of teaching the Kurdish language

With the Rev. Ava Ahait Revolution, the Kurdish language was re-established academically thanks to the movement of democratic society, the Confrenceha III was held in the city of Amouda in 2012 after the first Confrancin was held in Kobany in 2007 and the second in Aleppo in 2009. The establishment of the Kurdish language institution publicly opened Kurdish language learning centers in all cities of Ruja and its villages until 2013.

Academies and institutes prepared a teaching staff capable of education

In the course of the July 19 revolution, this institution set up thousands of teachers and received the teaching system in the schools of Rouge Ava and made the Kurdish language an official language in schools besides Arabic and the removal of subjects based on the Chauvinistic nationalist thought. To give classes to learn the language only as a result of the lack of curricula prepared in the Kurdish language in Rouge Ava.

On August 11, 2013, the first academy for Kurdish language and literature was opened as "Martyr Farzat Kammanger" to teach the Kurdish language and rehabilitate the students and teachers in the city of Afrin. The Kurdish Language Institute in Afrin And in cooperation with the Rogge Ava Teachers' Union on 28 October, a Kurdish language and literature institute called the Institute of Martyr Vayan Amara for Kurdish Language and Literature to graduate academic students after studying at the Institute for two years.

On October 24 of the same year, the Kurdish Language Foundation announced the opening of the Gladt Badrakhan Academy for Kurdish Language, History and Literature in the city of Kamishlu. It was followed by the inauguration of the Shahidah Institute of Vian Amara in the province of Kobany. At the beginning of 2015, the teachers' institutes opened in accordance with the concept of the democratic nation. The first institute was opened in Dirk in March and then in April in the city of Surrey Kanne.

The curriculum was the basis of the beginning of Kurdish language education academically

With the announcement of the democratic self-administration in Rouge-Ava, this administration set up its foundations and established its institutions and bodies so that learning in the mother tongue was the main part in setting the foundations of language and starting to teach generations in schools according to the contemporary educational curricula and the available scientific techniques. From the establishment of the Kurdish language, which was the premise, the Sindh, the father and the mother to revive the Kurdish language in all the provinces of Rouge Ava.

As of the beginning of the 2015-2016 school year, the first three grades of the primary school in the mother tongue, according to the main languages ​​of northern Syria, "Kurdish, Arabic and Syriac", have been taught in the island. In the summer of that year, the Education Authority of the island started preparing the curriculum. After intensive efforts under the supervision of the specialists, the entire curriculum for the first three grades was successfully completed. In parallel with these preparations, the Kurdish institutes deployed in the province have prepared hundreds of qualified teachers to teach these curricula during educational courses including the fundamentals of education and curriculum teaching assets.

After a year of success in teaching the Kurdish language for the first three grades, in 2016-2017 the Kurdish Language Foundation, in cooperation with the Education Authority of the island and through specialized professors in all specialties, prepared a curriculum in the Kurdish language from grades 1 to 6.

With the start of the school year in 2017-2018, the Kurdish Language Foundation and the Education Authority in the island, in cooperation with the Training Committee in Democratic Society, prepared new curricula to include the first and second stages, ie the first to ninth grade, in addition to the preparation of curricula in Arabic and Syriac.

In Kobany and Afrin, the situation was unlike the island. The curriculum was complete in the mother tongue for all elementary, preparatory and secondary levels. Education at Afrin University was also in the Kurdish mother tongue.

Through universities, the educational stages were completed

The University of Afrin has announced the establishment of the first university in Rouge Afa and northern Syria under the name of the University of Afrin on June 14, 2015 and its potential. The university has several branches and branches and teaches Kurdish language through curricula Prepared by the Committee on Education in the Democratic Society and the Kurdish Language Foundation through specialized educational cadres.

Following the success of the University of Afrin, the Democratic Autonomous Department of the island announced the opening of the Second University in Rouge-Ava, on behalf of the University of Rouge-Avé, on July 4, 2016. Since its inception, the university has accomplished many academic tasks to create an efficient and capable generation Manage areas of work meritoriously.

The third university was opened in Rouge-Ava in the city of Kobany on behalf of the University of Kobany on the 30th of September 2017, and with the opening of this university, every region in the north of Syria has a university.

In addition to the Arabic language, the Committee for Education in Democratic Society, in collaboration with the Kurdish Language Foundation and the Education Authority of the Third Regions, prepared curricula in accordance with the principle of the democratic nation and the Kurdish language.

The Kurds are learning in their mother tongue throughout the liberated northern regions of Syria

The Kurdish Language Foundation was not limited to the cities of Rouge Ava but extended to include all the northern cities of Syria such as the class and Manbij, which were liberated by the Syrian democratic forces, where it opened academies to teach the Kurdish language, which was popular among the Kurds living in these areas.

This is the first time in the history of Raja Ava that the Kurdish people have the opportunity to learn in their mother tongue. Under democratic self-governance, the Kurdish people, as well as all of the components of Rouge-Ava and the Syrian north, were able to learn in their mother tongue. However, some parties oppose this nascent experience.

In the beginning of the years of teaching the curricula adopted by the Committee of Training in Democratic Society in the schools of Rouge Ava and northern Syria in general, the Baathist regime opposed the Kurdish language education and closed some schools, and many of the opponents of this curriculum, And the inability of teaching staff to teach students.

However, teachers, teachers and all teaching staff of the Training and Education Authority and the Teachers' Union proved their work and struggle in contrast to the distorted language of the educational and teaching process in Rouge-Ava and northern Syria, where the teaching curriculum in Kurdish, Arabic and Syriac language is progressively improved in a short period of time.

The Kurdish language institution and its academies continue to teach the mother language through the preparation of academic curricula. The student passes through several stages before obtaining the certificate that allows him to teach Kurdish in schools, academies, institutes and universities located in Rouge-Ava and northern Syria.

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