Cambodia for Sale

Cambodia for Sale
Author: Will Brehm
Publisher: Politics of Education in Asia
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2022-09
Genre: Cambodia
ISBN: 9780367712044

Cambodia for Sale details a post-conflict society that socializes children into a world of private rather than public goods. Through an ethnography of one village, Cambodia for Sale argues that efforts to rebuild Cambodia after decades of conflict have resulted in various forms of everyday privatization.

The Political Economy of Schooling in Cambodia

The Political Economy of Schooling in Cambodia
Author: Yuto Kitamura
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 351
Release: 2016-01-28
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1137456000

In the most in-depth look at education in Cambodia to date, scholars long engaged in research on Cambodia provide historical context and unpack key issues of high relevance to Cambodia and other developing countries as they expand and modernize their education systems and grapple with challenges to providing a quality and equitable education.

The Political Economy of Educational Reforms and Capacity Development in Southeast Asia

The Political Economy of Educational Reforms and Capacity Development in Southeast Asia
Author: Yasushi Hirosato
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 321
Release: 2009-02-07
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1402093772

Yasushi Hirosato and Yuto Kitamura Developing countries, including Southeast Asian countries, face an enormous challenge in ensuring equitable access to quality education in the context of deepening globalization and increasing international competition. They must simultaneously meet the goals of Education for All (EFA) at the basic education level and of developing a more sophisticated workforce required by the knowledge-based economy at the post-basic, especially tertiary, education level. To meet this challenge, developing countries need to reform/renovate their education systems and service deliveries as an integral part of national development. However, most of them have not yet fully developed the individual, institutional, and system capacities in undertaking necessary education reforms, especially under decentralization and privatization requiring new roles at various (central and local, or public and private) levels of administration and stakeholders. Provided that an ultimate vision of educational development and cooperation in the twenty-first century would be to develop indigenous capacity in engineering education reforms, this book analyzes the overall education reform context and capacity, including the status of sector program support using the sector-wide approach (SWAp)/program-based approach (PBA) in developing countries. We also address how different stakeholders have been interacting in order to promote equitable access to quality education, particularly from the perspectives of capacity development under the system of decentralization.

Reforming Pedagogy in Cambodia

Reforming Pedagogy in Cambodia
Author: Takayo Ogisu
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 163
Release: 2022-01-08
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9811667500

This book presents a sociocultural account of logic, or a pedagogy, that governs Cambodian education, from policy-making to classroom practices. In so doing, it seeks to not only provide an introduction to Cambodian education, but also to help readers understand the complexities involved in reforming educational practices by drawing on an ethnographic multi-level case study of an ongoing pedagogical reform policy. The book reveals what is actually taking place in today’s Cambodian classrooms and how actors view their own practices in response to the new pedagogy. Importantly, the book situates Cambodian pedagogical reform efforts amid the global wave of student-centered pedagogies and sheds new light on the political economy of educational policy-making and policy implementation along a global-local axis.

Educating the Next Generation

Educating the Next Generation
Author: Prateek Tandon
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Total Pages: 173
Release: 2015-01-08
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1464804184

This book diagnoses Cambodian teaching quality and presents policy options for reform.

Anatomy of a Crisis

Anatomy of a Crisis
Author: David M. Ayres
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Total Pages: 276
Release: 2000-01-01
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780824822385

This work challenges the widespread belief that Cambodia's education crisis is part of the dreadful legacy of the Khmer Rouge holocaust in which thousands of students, teachers and intellectuals perished. It draws on an extensive range of sources.

Empowering Teachers to Build a Better World

Empowering Teachers to Build a Better World
Author: Fernando M. Reimers
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 140
Release: 2020-03-23
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9811521379

This open access book presents a comparative study on how large-scale professional development programs for teachers are designed and implemented. Around the world, governments and educators are recognizing the need to educate students in a broad range of higher order cognitive skills and socio-emotional competencies, and providing effective opportunities for teachers to develop the expertise needed to teach these skills is a crucial aspect of effective implementation of curricula which include those goals. This study examines how large-scale efforts to empower teachers for deeper instruction have been designed, how they have been implemented, and their outcomes. To do so, it investigates six programs from England, Colombia, Mexico, India, and the United States. Though all six are intended to broaden and deepen students’ curricular aspirations, each takes this expansion of curricular goals in a different direction. The ambitious education reforms studied here explicitly focus on building teachers’ capacity to teach on a broader set of goals. Through a discerning analysis of program documents, evaluations, and interviews with senior leaders and participants in the programs, the book identifies the various theories of action used in these programs, examines how they were implemented, and discusses what they achieved. As such, it offers an indispensable resource for education leaders interested in designing and implementing professional development programs for teachers that are aligned with ambitious instructional goals.

Education in Cambodia

Education in Cambodia
Author: Vincent McNamara
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 326
Release: 2022-05-14
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9811682135

This book is the most comprehensive account yet published about the education system in Cambodia. It covers all system levels and draws upon the knowledge and insights of a wide range of leading Cambodian and foreign scholars. The book focuses on how the system has developed and is making progress. Significant achievements over the past two decades are evident, but many problems remain, including the poor quality of teaching, research and institutional management. Under-funding is an ongoing obstacle, but so too is a bureaucratic culture of resistance to change, a history of weak governance, and an anti-reform sentiment deriving from a teacher-centred and exam-driven curriculum. Achieving international standards must now be the system’s highest priority. To this end, the system must rid itself of conservatism, complacency and manipulation by parochial vested interests.