The policy of educational system in Iraqi-Kurdistan

Abstract EN

This study is restricted to the policy of educational system that was adopted in Iraq- Kurdistan that is related to sociolinguistics, which, in turn, is related to the development of the educational system in Iraq- Kurdistan.

It is generally recognized that Iraqi- Kurdistan exposed to the racist and Arabization policy which raised many problems to the Kurdistan people and that is to be hindering progress in all respects and as such it has become an urgent issue, which has to be studied and solved.

This study contributes to the teaching infrastructure of the development of the education system in various stages.

The present study is both theoretical and practical, the theoretical aspects will be beneficial for understanding the policy that was/is adopted in solving problems, especially to have an adequate understanding of the policy planning of the educational system.

On the side it is an imperial study in developing educational system in order to contribute to the development of the education and sociolinguistics.

This study is divided into The first one is about historical background of the policy of educational system.

The second one presents the educational situation during the mandate period 1920- 1932 while the section three deals with the Kurdish education during the republican Iraq.

While the section four is devoted to the 1970- 1974 period, but the section five explains the policy which is adopted during the period after the collapse of Kurdish Revolution of September while section six is devoted to the policy which is adopted during the period of aftermath of the Kurdish uprising March 1991 until the academic year 2010- 2011 that is the core of the study since the dramatic changes occurred in the policy of educational system.

At the end the conclusion ,the list of reference and appendices are presented.