Serkeftin by Marcel Cartier;

Author:Marcel Cartier; [Cartier, Marcel]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-1-78904-013-5
Publisher: John Hunt (NBN)
Published: 2019-02-21T16:00:00+00:00

To the foreign ear, these were shocking concepts on the one hand, but on the other they seemed to echo common sense. What better way to really get at the root of how to enhance a learning experience than to have a forum for how to make it more productive rather than repressing suggestions for improvement? This seemed to be a truly radical concept when coming out of the halls of ‘learning’ in the west. It seemed profoundly revolutionary to think that the teachers could be criticized in such a direct fashion and not take it personally, or to not respond by ‘disciplining’ the students. To break down the barrier of separation and the ‘untouchable’ teacher who was there to inorganically implant knowledge into the student was something I had long dreamt of, and here I was seeing it in action. I realized then, though, that it wasn’t just my foreign ears that this must have seemed strange to – at one point, these students must have felt exactly the same way.

I was deeply curious about just how much the education in this region of the country has transformed since the self-administration took control in 2012.

As one of the members of the Reverberi tells me:

This academy itself used to be a cultural centre of the state. But at that time, it was inconceivable that young people from the background of these students who are here today would have access to it. It was for the elites, and primarily for Arabs. We are now trying to build up the democratic nation, so our goal is to have students from all kinds of backgrounds, not just Kurds. Of course, because of the repression of the Kurdish culture, this has so far been our focus, as the students already know Arab culture very well from their previous instruction before the revolution.

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