Author Affiliation: Khmer Studies Institute, Connecticut, USA
摘要
This paper addresses the education efforts and needs of the 320,000 displaced Khmer people living in encampments along the Thai-Cambodian border. It also raises some issues for the future of education in a non-Communist Cambodia. The displaced Khmer, more than half of whom are under 16 years of age, have been interned in the border camps since 1979 awaiting repatriation to Cambodia pending a political settlement. This report on their education problems is based in part on a month-long study trip to Thailand and the three major border camps in January 1989. It raises the question of what an appropriate education is for a people earmarked to return to a country whose urban population has never exceeded 15 per cent and is currently between 6 and 7 per cent; who possess backgrounds largely in wet-rice farming, but also civil service, small-scale manufacturing, artisanry, and fishing; and whose strong traditional belief system combines Buddhism with various Hindu and animistic practices. An appreciation of this question, complicated by the needs and demands of modernization, re- quires some prior understanding of the socio-cultural context of education in Cambodia.
目次
Some Background on Education in Cambodia 257 The Cultural/Political Context 257 Indigenous Education 258 Westernization after World War II 259 Education in the 1970s 260 The Border Camp Background 261 The Coalition Government of Democratic Kampuchea (CGDK) and their Affiliated Camps 262 Voluntary agencies 263 The Border Camp Education Programmes 264 Background 264 The School System and its Management 266 Education Policy and the Curriculum 269 Teaching and Educational Materials 270 Assessment and Needs 272
