Iraqi male and female teachers’ institutes and their impact on the educational movement until 2015 ADThe Sabahi Teachers’ Institute in Diyala Governorate is a model

Abstract

Abstract

The research highlights the establishment of the Sabahi Teachers’ Institute in Diyala Governorate, and its impact on the development of the education movement in the governorate, making it one of the important educational institutions with a direct impact on the lives of citizens. The research material was distributed into an introduction, three sections, and a conclusion. The first section dealt with: (A glimpse of the reality of education in Diyala and the justifications for establishing institutes for male and female teachers and their development until the year 1979 AD), and the second section talked about: (The establishment of the female teachers’ morning institute in Diyala, its goals and the variables of its curricula until the year 2015 AD). The third section touched on: (Directors of the Female Teachers’ Institute in Diyala, the decision to cancel the institute, and some opinions regarding it). The researcher used the historical, descriptive and analytical method. The research was based on a number of sources, most notably the documents of the Teachers’ Institute in Diyala and a number of files of the Royal Court and the Iraqi Ministry of Interior, as well as many Arabic books, theses, university dissertations, and other sources, the details of which are recorded in the list of sources.

The research reached a number of conclusions, the most important of which is that the period of the royal and republican eras witnessed an important development in education in Diyala Governorate, and attention was paid to male and female teachers’ institutes after that, as they were considered the main source for graduating educational staff, and foreign experts were brought in who contributed to developing appropriate solutions to improve the reality of education in Iraq, including Diyala Governorate. The establishment of the Sabahi Teachers’ Institute in Diyala came to graduate female teachers who were qualified to practice the teaching profession in primary schools. Capable educational figures succeeded in managing the institute who succeeded in providing the local community with youth capabilities that contributed effectively to raising new youth. The curricula in the institute’s branches witnessed many changes and changes. Some curricula were deleted and added as an update to the curricula and developed to meet the changes and social and political developments in the country in line with the educational philosophy of the state. These changes were reflected in the development of education in Diyala Governorate, and the branches of female teachers’ institutes diversified and included (the mathematics and science branch, the Arabic language branch, and the English language, the art education branch, and the physical education branch) to cover the various specializations needed by primary schools in education in the governorate, and the institute continued to graduate courses since its establishment as a teachers’ house in 1956 AD until 2015 AD; Studies were stopped, especially after the opening of the Teachers College in Diyala in 1994, which began to undertake the tasks of graduating female teachers with a bachelor’s degree. The process of abolishing the institute faced varying criticism between supporters and opponents of abolishing the institute.