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Thousands receiving Kurdish Language
education in Syrian Kurdistan's Jazeera Canton
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May 14, 2014
QAMISHLO, Syrian Kurdistan,— The
revolution in Kurdish language education in Syrian
Kurdistan (Rojava) is being reflected in
celebrations around Kurdish Language Day, officially
marked on May 15th. The Kurdish Language Institute (SZK)
which first began mother-tongue education in private
homes in Syrian Kurdistan, is now offering
officially recognized language courses at 670
schools in the Jazeera (Cizîre) Canton alone. With
three thousand teachers and 49,700 students, Kurdish
courses organized by the SZK are now part of the
curriculum from elementary to secondary school. Once
more, the preparation of teachers for the other
parts of Kurdistan has now come onto the SZK’s
agenda.
The SZK’s educational work has passed through three
stages since the beginning of the Syrian Kurdistan
revolution until now; the first began in private
homes. When the Syrian regime was still in control
of the cities of Syrian Kurdistan and Syria the SZK
offered Kurdish language education secretly in
private homes. In the first days of the Syrian
Kurdistan Revolution itself Kurdish language
education began to be offered in private schools
relying on volunteer teachers and despite limited
opportunities. As a result of this work, however,
three thousand teachers were prepared in just the
Jazeera Canton.
No Nationality Or Age
Restrictions For Kurdish Education
Today nearly 50 thousand students of all ages –
including the very old – are proud to be receiving
education in their own languages. Arab, Kurdish,
Syriac and Armenian children can also learn Kurdish
in official schools.
Workers in municipalities, public security forces
and people’s houses are also cycling through
educational programs opened by the SZK in order to
establish better communication with the people and
serve better.
Three Stage Education
Hassan Mohamed, one of the administrators of the
Kurdish Language Institute in the Jazeera Canton,
spoke to ANF about the development of Kurdish
education in Syrian Kurdistan. According to Mohamed
the first two stageswww.Ekurd.net
were three month courses to establish a foundation
in the Kurdish language. The third stage is to
prepare Kurdish language teachers and to begin to
education teachers for the Language, History and
Literature Academy.
Mohamed explained that parallel work was going on in
the Kobanę and Efrin cantons of Syrian Kurdistan,
and that the SZK had established relations with
other Kurdish language institutions in the other
parts of Kurdistan, which had made important
contributions to language work in Syrian Kurdistan.
He went on to explain that these institutions were
cooperating to create great a broad corpus of
textual resources and education material.
Training Teachers For All
Of Kurdistan
Mohamed went on to explain that the SZK is aiming to
train teachers for all parts of Kurdistan and the
work around the Language, History and Literature
Academy is in large part directed toward meeting
this goal. At the same time teachers are also being
trained at private cities in every city of Syrian
Kurdistan, and emphasized that one of the biggest
gains of the Syrian Kurdistan revolution has been
around the subject of Kurdish language education.
New School Surprise For
Kurdish Language Day
Education in Kurdish is not limited to language
training, said Mohamed, and Kurdish language
materials for instruction in mathematics, physics,
chemistry, biology, etc have also been prepared. The
goal is to begin Kurdish language education in such
subjects in the shortest possible timeframe, and
that the academy’s work had played an important role
in this respect.
Mohamed also stressed that celebrations for this
year’s Kurdish Language Day have taken on a new
importance in light of the developments around the
revolution. This year the holiday will be marked in
Syrian Kurdistan by seminars, marches, tree
plantings in parks and gardens, and the opening of
new schools providing education in the Kurdish
language.
By Aziz Koyluoglu - ANF
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