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For the Rights-Centric Education logo, we will be featuring the word Education in multiple languages, with an explicit effort to include words and concepts outside the colonial view of education (which is what took rights-violating practices of education around the world, to, you know, educate the savages..)
For the Rights-Centric Education logo, we will be featuring the word Education in multiple languages, with an explicit effort to include words and concepts outside the colonial view of education (which is what took rights-violating practices of education around the world, to, you know, educate the savages..)


So far we have
* Hebrew: '''חינוך''' <ref>Recognising the first state sponsored Democratic School, in Hadera</ref>
* From Sri Lanka: Sinhala: '''අධ්‍යාපනය''', Tamil: '''கல்வி''', Sri Lankan Malay: '''belajaran'''
* isiZulu: '''imfundo''' <ref>South Africa</ref>
** Note from Sifaan: Of course I want the logo to include the words for education from my country, and given how much language barriers have contributed to conflict here, I want to recognise as many of our languages as I can, even if they are minor (the Malay community is 0.2% of our population).
* Māori: '''rangatiratanga''' <ref>New Zealand. Translates as self-determination. This was offered by a Māori speaker over the typical translation of mātaranga, where Mātaranga Māori is "our knowledge, or our ways of knowing, doing and being"</ref>
* From New Zealand / Aotearoa: Māori: '''rangatiratanga''', which translates as self-determination. This was offered by a Māori speaker over the typical translation of mātaranga, where Mātaranga Māori is "our knowledge, or our ways of knowing, doing and being"
* Mohawk: '''ionterihwaienhstáhkhwa''' <ref>Note from [https://www.educationrevolution.org/store/about/team/ Jerry Mintz]: This is the word for "school", I do not know if there is a separate word for "education";  see [[Iroquois_Democracy|story of how Jerry helped setup a school that helped preserve the Mohawk language]]</ref>
* From the Iroquois Confederacy / USA: Mohawk: '''ionterihwaienhstáhkhwa'''
* Quecha: '''Yachachiy''' <ref>Andes, including modern day Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru</ref>
** Note from [https://www.educationrevolution.org/store/about/team/ Jerry Mintz]: This is the word for "school", I do not know if there is a separate word for "education";  see [[Iroquois_Democracy|story of how Jerry helped setup a school that helped preserve the Mohawk language]]
* Sinhala: '''අධ්‍යාපනය''' <ref name="lk">Note from Sifaan: Of course I want the logo to include the words for education from my country, Sri Lanka, and given how much language barriers have contributed to conflict here, I want to recognise as many of our languages as I can, even if they are minor (the Malay community is 0.2% of our population)</ref>
* From South Africa: isiZulu: '''imfundo'''
* Sri Lankan Malay: '''belajaran''' <ref name="lk" />
* Tamil: '''கல்வி''' <ref name="lk" /> <ref>Recognising the work on [https://citizen-network.org/library/joseph-rathinam-ndm.html Children's Parliaments by Joseph Rathinam] in Chennai, India</ref>
* Thai: '''การศึกษา''' <ref>Thailand</ref>
* Turkish: '''Eğitim''' <ref>Turkey</ref>
 


While we are open to adding words from any language, we do have a Wishlist:
While we are open to adding words from any language, we do have a Wishlist:
* Polish (in memory of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janusz_Korczak Janusz Korczak])
* Polish (in memory of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janusz_Korczak Janusz Korczak])
* Gangulu (in recognition of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lilla_Watson Lilla Watson])
* Gangulu (in recognition of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lilla_Watson Lilla Watson])
* Hebrew (because the first state sponsored Democratic School is in Hadera)
 
==Notes==
<references />

Revision as of 16:32, 11 July 2024

For the Rights-Centric Education logo, we will be featuring the word Education in multiple languages, with an explicit effort to include words and concepts outside the colonial view of education (which is what took rights-violating practices of education around the world, to, you know, educate the savages..)

  • Hebrew: חינוך [1]
  • isiZulu: imfundo [2]
  • Māori: rangatiratanga [3]
  • Mohawk: ionterihwaienhstáhkhwa [4]
  • Quecha: Yachachiy [5]
  • Sinhala: අධ්‍යාපනය [6]
  • Sri Lankan Malay: belajaran [6]
  • Tamil: கல்வி [6] [7]
  • Thai: การศึกษา [8]
  • Turkish: Eğitim [9]


While we are open to adding words from any language, we do have a Wishlist:

Notes

  1. ↑ Recognising the first state sponsored Democratic School, in Hadera
  2. ↑ South Africa
  3. ↑ New Zealand. Translates as self-determination. This was offered by a Māori speaker over the typical translation of mātaranga, where Mātaranga Māori is "our knowledge, or our ways of knowing, doing and being"
  4. ↑ Note from Jerry Mintz: This is the word for "school", I do not know if there is a separate word for "education"; see story of how Jerry helped setup a school that helped preserve the Mohawk language
  5. ↑ Andes, including modern day Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 Note from Sifaan: Of course I want the logo to include the words for education from my country, Sri Lanka, and given how much language barriers have contributed to conflict here, I want to recognise as many of our languages as I can, even if they are minor (the Malay community is 0.2% of our population)
  7. ↑ Recognising the work on Children's Parliaments by Joseph Rathinam in Chennai, India
  8. ↑ Thailand
  9. ↑ Turkey
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