The history of educational laws, regulations, and curricula for the formal study in the city of Erbil, 1961-1968

Abstract

This study finds that the Iraqi government has worked to raise the level of education inIraq in general, butin the Kurdish areas, this process was impacted strongly by political dynamics —due to political problems, Kurdish language studies in Kurdish schools (like those of Erbil) were neglected by the Iraqi government.Archives and other documentation make this fact clear, as training for teachers in this area was conducted for various different specializations except the Kurdish language, and those already teaching this subject became totally neglected by the educational and administrative policies of the Iraqi government.Aside from that, during the period covered by this research, state regulations and procedures paid proper attention to students and seem to have raised the level of their knowledge. Many regulations and special directives have also been developed to deal with this Kurdish language issue. Additionally, duringthe studied period, many school textbooks were printed for different topics and specialization in order to be distributed among students in the schools for different levels.