The villages between Wesmin .. Curriculum Director in Sudan ignites the communication platforms and silence

Ahmed Fadl-Khartoum

Social media platforms in Sudan are ignited by two names, the hero of which is the director of the National Center for Curricula and Educational Research Omar al-Qurai, one of whom is demanding his dismissal for fear of dyeing the curricula with the ideas of "Republicans", and the other supports him to purify the curricula from the faults of the previous regime.

Since Abdullah Hamduk appointed the Prime Minister of the villages in this position last October, a campaign against him has been active against him because of his belonging to the idea of ​​the “Republican Brotherhood” of its owner, Mahmoud Mohamed Taha, who was executed during the era of former President Jaafar Nimeiri on charges of apostasy in 1985.

And now a campaign is being launched against him on the platforms under the slogan "Removing Villages", after committees that formed their villages began to review curricula before the start of the school year in September.

Al-Qurai declined to comment to Al-Jazeera Net on the campaigns against him, saying that he would prefer not to comment on it at the present time.

Raising controversy
Al-Qurai's statements raise controversy since he assumed the position of Director of the National Center for Curricula and Educational Research, especially those related to reviewing the intensity of the Quran wall in the curricula of kindergarten and basic schools.

In a statement issued last Thursday, the Ansar Al-Sunna Al-Muhammadiyah group in Sudan demanded the dismissal of the director of the curriculum center and the immediate suspension of the printing of the curricula.

Al-Qari was forced to appear on the Sudan News Agency platform on April 17th, to respond to the campaign calling for his release.

He made it clear in a video broadcast on the podium that he does not want to cancel the Qur’an in the curricula of Riyadh because it is not against religion but rather against the merchants of religion according to his expression, and that the new curricula will love children in religion by practicing and enjoying the arrangement of the fence and not by memorizing, because children of this age are not ordered to pray.

He pointed out that Riyadh will focus on teaching children issues and behavioral and moral values, such as washing hands and avoiding selfishness.

A case of
queuing, and educational experts interested in the file of education condemn "that the curriculum matter is subject to political quarrels and the queuing about dismissing or retaining villages."

Mubarak Yahya, head of the Sudanese Alliance for Education for All, former head of the Arab Network for Education for All, says that the most important pillars of the educational-oriented curriculum are that it carries the values ​​of Sudan, and it must be excluded from the polarization of politics, especially if it exceeds common sense.

Yahya excludes in an interview with Al-Jazeera Net that the villages or others intend to influence the curricula according to the ideas they belong to, because the curricula are worked on by a system of educators, and that advice on the curriculum extends even to experts outside this system.

It is considered that those behind the campaign targeting the villages are "inaccurate", while overlapping in the curriculum requires specialism, and those concerned with the educational system will not think merely to think about touching societal and spiritual values.

Political quotas
As for the lecturer at the University of Khartoum Omar al-Inkr Yusef Nour al-Daaim, he expresses his discontent with the end of the revolution to “political quotas” instead of absorbing national competencies, such as the old educators who worked at the Bakht al-Ruda Institute and the former regime referred them to retirement under the banner of the common good.

The ink says that the villages disturb his controversial statements, even the government that brought him as director of the Center for Curricula, noting that his statements "combine knowledge and ignorance and embody old political feuds as echoing terms, such as religious obsession groups."

And the ink bears the case of the Asfari lineup of the same villages because the Minister of Education, Mohamed Al-Amin Al-Tom, despite his well-known leftist, did not cause any confusion and did not campaign against him.

The man is flawed by the banality of the state’s affairs represented in the demands of removing the villages or keeping him in the media, and that the government be at the mercy of political mobilization, he said.

It is unlikely that the villages will leak the "republican idea" into the curricula, but he rejects what he considered to be another empowerment in the educational process as did the Al-Bashir regime. 

The platforms
palled out and the Sudanese Teachers Committee, under the banner of the Sudanese Professionals Caucus, visited the campaign calling for his exemption, confirming in a statement yesterday that those behind them had damaged their interests represented in a stockpile of tens of millions of books of the old decision, which is estimated at billions of pounds.

The statement, which thousands interacted with on a Facebook page that brings together professionals in Facebook, indicates that some parties negotiated curriculum management by postponing curricula change for two years so that the old curriculum stocks could be marketed, and when their efforts failed they released lies.

In a case similar to Al-Tabari, activists called the “Decriminalization of Villages” group on Facebook, the number of its members reached more than 80,000 members, while the supporters of the Villages called the “Villages of Hope Education” mark, and the number of members of the group reached more than 30 thousand members.

Proponents of the villages inferred examples from book decisions that demonstrate the extent of the damage that the previous regime caused to the curricula.