Moving Toward Equity: Bringing Bilingual Education to Turkey’s Kurdish Children
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https://doi.org/10.12775/18258Keywords
Kurdish language, bilingual school, education, TurkeyAbstract
This article examines the history of Kurdish language repression in Turkey and argues that bilingual education for Kurdish children will ultimately benefit both Turks and Kurds. Research shows that bilingual education tends to create empathy between the children of conflicting groups. This is particularly intriguing in the situation of Hebrew-Arabic bilingual schools in Israel, since the situation of Arab Israelis is in many ways comparable to that of Turkish Kurds.
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