Friday, April 2, 2010

COMMUNE TEACHER TRAINING -- The Teaching of "A History of Democratic Kampuchea (1975-1979)"

DOCUMENTATION CENTER OF CAMBODIA

With the Cooperation of the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport



GENOCIDE EDUCATION PROJECT
The Teaching of "A History of Democratic Kampuchea (1975-1979)"

PROVINCIAL TEACHER SEMINAR
Siem Reap Province
March 27 - 29, 2010

COMMUNE TEACHER TRAINING
Kampot, Kep, Preah Sihanouk, Koh Kong, Kratie, Mondul
Kiri, Ratanak Kiri, Preah Vihear and Stung Treng provinces
April 5 - 11, 2010

Since the fall of the Democratic Kampuchea regime in January 1979, the efforts in teaching the history of this regime to Cambodian people, especially the young generation, has been made in many ways, including teaching at schools as political propaganda to gain international community supports and telling stories by parents to their children. By these means, the teaching of history is thought not to be enough and persistent. 28 years later, a new textbook, "A History of Democratic Kampuchea (1975-1979)" was published for the first time in 2007. This textbook was written by Kamboly Dy, a Cambodian researcher working at the Documentation Center of Cambodia (DC-Cam) with the financial support from National Endowment for Democracy (NED) and Open Society Institute (OSI). Mr. Dy took over three years to make the publication of this textbook possible. This textbook was reviewed by the International scholars including several Holocaust experts and Government of Cambodia Reviewing Committee and finally approved to be the supplementary material to the teaching of DK regime in secondary schools (grade 9-12) and university's foundation year throughout Cambodia. By now, a total of 300,000 copies of DK history textbooks -- hugely funded by German Embassy in Phnom Penh -- were distributed freely to students across the country.

In 2009, with the collaboration of the Ministry of Education, DC-Cam produced a Teacher's Guidebook (co-author by Dr. Chea Phalla and Mr. Chris Dearing) for teachers to teach the DK history textbook. The guidebook is designed especially for history teachers and on the purpose that teachers are able to teach DK history textbook objectively and pedagogically. In addition, the student workbook is being finalized before going to the printing shop so that it will help students understand the textbook comprehensively. Canada funded the publication of the teacher guidebook.

From June 29 to July 7, 2009, DC-Cam with the support from Belgium, Sida (Sweden), USAID, OSI, Denmark, Norway and others including the Ministry of Education held a workshop to train 24 national teachers from the Ministry of Education and 15 DC-Cam staff members on the methodology to teach the DK history and other related topics such as genocides and mass atrocities in other countries and international law. International and national scholars were invited to participate and assist this workshop. In late 2009, DC-Cam with 39 national trainers conducted the second national training workshop by which 180 provincial teachers received this training successfully.


As a result of the second training, an enhancing capacity opening workshop will be held for three days in Siem Reap province. All provincial teachers will participate in this workshop to receive more comprehensive information and knowledge before further transferring the teaching skill of DK history to 3,000 commune teachers (1,627 history teachers; 1,373 citizen morality and Khmer literature teachers). The first actual commune teacher training will be conducted on April 5-11 in four provincial training centers including Kampot, Preah Sihanouk, Stung Treng and Kratie. Local teachers from Kampot, Kep, Preah Sihanouk, Koh Kong, Kratie, Mondul Kiri, Ratanak Kiri, Preah Vihear and Stung Treng provinces will participate in this training.

The following information highlights only the programs for the opening workshop in Siem Reap Province.


Opening Ceremony for Local Teacher Training
Siem Reap: 27-29 March 2010

March 28, 2010

Opening Ceremony at Mondial Hotel


8:00-8:30 Attendance Registration
8:30-10:00 Arrival of H.E. Chumteav Tun Sa-im

Under Secretary of State of Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport
National Anthem of the Kingdom of Cambodia
Welcome speech by Vanthan Peoudara, DC-Cam's Deputy Director
Speech by H.E. Chumteav Tun Sa-im

Certificate conferring ceremony for 180 provincial teachers

H.E. Chumteav Tun Sa-im
Departure of H.E. Chumteav Tun Sa-im

10:00-10:15 Tea break

10:15-11:15 Research methodology

Mr. Youk Chhang, DC-Cam's Director
Purpose of the teaching of A History of Democratic Kampuchea (1975-1979)
Documentation at the archives of DC-Cam
Historical documentation (primary and secondary sources)

11:15-12:15 Discussing dialogue on "Breaking the Silence"

12:15-1:30 Lunch


1:30-3:00 Methodology in teaching of A History of Democratic Kampuchea

Mr. Christopher Dearing, Co-author of the teacher guidebook

Mr. Kok-Thay Eng, DC-Cam's Deputy Director

Review on Guidebook for Teacher and Student Workbook
Presentation of model lesson

3:00-3:15 Tea break

3:15-5:00 Information of group division and assignment

Kampot (Kampot plus Kep)

Preah Sihanouk (Preah Sihanouk plus Koh Kong)

Kratie (Kratie plus Mondul Kiri)

Stung Treng (Stung Treng plus Preah Vihear and Ratanak Kiri)

Mr. Pheng Pong-Rasy

Group for each province
Review on expectation of national, provincial and local teachers: Role and duty
Discussion on group division
Discussion on cultural temple visit

First Round of Local Teacher Training: Kampot, Kratie, Preah Sihanouk and Stung Treng Provinces Local Teacher Training Program From 5 to 11 April 2010.

FOR MORE INFORMATION, PLEASE CONTACT

Vanthan Poeudara tel: 012 846 526

Pheng Pong-Rasy tel: 016 212 888



The Textbook

http://dccam.org/Publication/Monographs/Part1-1.pdf

http://dccam.org/Projects/Genocide/Part2-1.pdf



The Guidebook

http://dccam.org/Projects/Genocide/pdf/DC-Cam_Teacher_Guidebook_Eng_Nov_23.pdf

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