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help achieve SDGs in the Cambodian
Highlands
By Anne ThomasNontimber Forest ProductsCambodia
5th International Conference on Language and Education: Sustainable Development through Multilingual Education
19-21 October 2016 Bangkok, Thailand
Nonformal Education MTB-MLE Initiatives
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How can the remote indigenous ethnic minority communities of Cambodia access education ???
Making ‘Education for All’ a reality in the Cambodian Highlands
19962016
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So that everyone can have the opportunity to learn to read and write…and count money… and protect their land and forest…and have good health…
The NFE MTB-MLE Approach
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SDG goal 4 (education)• Inclusive• Equitable• Quality• Life-long learning• Skills Training• Opportunity for all• Eliminate gender
disparity• Access• Youth & adults achieve
literacy and numeracy
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‘The school the students built’
Community School Board
Member
Learning is enjoyable and empowering
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Nonformal Education(NFE) MLE amongChildren, youth, and adults of northeastern Cambodia
Ratanakiri Province-1996- present
MLE Pilots Nonformal Education (NFE) Approach
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MLE started in Ratanakiri Province (Preparation 1996, first teacher training 1997)expansion to Mondulkiri (2005-present) and Steung Treng Provinces (2002; 2009- present)
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20 years ago1999: BASELINE SURVEYBrao village, Ratanakiri Province
Ability to Count Money by Gender
‘Can you count this money?’
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1999: BASELINE SURVEYBrao village, Ratanakiri Province
‘Can you speak Khmer?’‘Can you read Khmer?’
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Nonformal Education Approach:
▶ Teachers from the community▶Class schedule planned by communities▶ Flexible, locally relevant curriculum▶ Local curriculum writers and checking committees▶Project staff (literacy, health, development, etc) from local
ethnic communities▶Classes in evenings▶All ages, many children and youth▶After 3 years of evening classes, children test into primary
school at the district town at grade 4 to 6
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Most teachers are former MLE evening class students rather than primary school graduates
Thus class is not hierarchical
(teacher in red jacket, class meets in his house)
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Expanding MTB-MLE approach for Kavet language 2007
Meetings by village to plan classes for new literacy cycle (teachers, community school board, village chief, local monitors)
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Various Challenges, overcome step-by-step:▶ Training up teachers when almost no one can read the
national language or the mother tongue▶ Finalizing the alphabet and spelling▶ Why learn to read our own language, we already know it?’▶ ‘Will government allow local language in education?’▶ Volunteer teacher turnover▶ Students have finished all the materials in the 3-year program,
but want to continue longer , we need to write more books
Projects in 3 provinces demonstrating in countless villages that the MTB-MLE approach really works!
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2016: Kavet Language MLE
2 provinces, 11 villages, 35 classes, 700 students, 65 volunteer teachers, 9 volunteer monitors, 5 Kavet trainers, 2 organizations…
2016: MLE NFE in 3 Provinces, 4 Organizations, 60 + classes of 15-30 students each; 5 language varieties;6th language in 2017
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Health and hygieneLivelihood, fair prices counting money Agriculture, natural resources, forest
protection
Non-formal Approach for Ethnic Minorities in Northeast Cambodia Bilingual Literacy Programs (1996- present)
Alphabets developed for 6 Languages Integrated Community Development
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➢ Language everyone understands
➢ Evenings & location they choose
➢ Teacher from their hamlet
➢Classes move back and forth to hamlets as necessary
➢ For all ages➢Male and female
Early days of the project - 1999 School built by villagers did not accommodate women
Addressing Issues of Access:
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➢ Evening classes as all ages are busy in fields during daylight hours
➢ Network of government schools does not reach to distant villages
➢ Villagers relocate to field hamlets up to 10 months per year
➢ Class meets outside, in teachers’ houses, or in bamboo classroom built by students
Nonformal approach: MTB-MLE Approach:Start with what the learners knowTeach reading in the mother tongue and bridge to the national language, develop relevant materials in both mother tongue and national language
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SDG goal 3 (Healthy Lives, well being)
SDG goal 6 (water and sanitation)
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Re-hydration lesson: Brao/Kavet language-also health skits/dramas, health messages through puppet shows using 3 local languages…
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Villagers waiting for ferry to cross river with new toilet bowls:
Villagers now understand the importance of good sanitation to prevent disease
previously all illness was blamed on the spirits, and required expensive sacrifices to appease them
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Water filter poster designed locally written in mother tongueFilter can be made of locally available materials (Pipe, sand, gravel, charcoal…)
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Community-based Natural Resources Committees monitor logging, poaching….
SDG goal 15 (Life on land -environment: Forests, halt biodiversity loss)
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SDG goal 5 (gender equality, empower all women and girls)
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Training Community Teachers
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2005:NFE Student
2007:Kavet MLE Teacher Training(the 2 young women teachers sit in front)
Transformation from Student to Teacher….
© Anne T homas
© Anne T homas
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2008: As new MLE teacher, coached by monitor
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© Anne T homas
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1997: zero women teachers- (Khmer NFE- not MLE)
2002-2007: 2 women teachers
2016: 32 women teachers (2/3 of the Kavet teachers)
New women teachers- 2016
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As new teacher, being coached by the monitor
© Anne T homas
© Anne T homas
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2008: Teacher Ohn and family
2014: Daughter with her students
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Advanced level Kavet MLE Teachers and monitors
More males than females as women tend to dropout for marriage so can only teach lower levels
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Volunteer Teachers become monitors, students become literacy and math teachers, community members help with music, community committees manage classes, students volunteer in teachers’ fields….
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SDG goal 8 (Decent work & economic growth) SDG goal 10(Reduced inequalities)SDG goal 11(sustainable communities)SDG goal 16 (Peaceful inclusion in society, justice)SDG goal 17 (Global partnerships)
Community building, expansion to other provinces…Influence national policy for NFE MTB MLEStudy exchanges with Lao PDR, NE India…
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Teachers and community join Graduation at end of 3- year evening course
Some students continue their training - commute to primary school, join training for village vet, village malaria worker, work for local government or NGOs….
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Graduation !!!Some become MLE teachers, natural resource committee members…
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Empowerment….
Thit’s story:From NFE student to: • primary school student• volunteer NFE teacher • NFE monitor • MLE NFE teacher trainer • NGO staff producing the first
Kavet- Khmer dictionary • community facilitator
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Ratanakiri Brao language MLE staff conduct survey among Kavet (related language) in neighboring Steung Treng Province
Survey to Neighboring Steung Treng Province: 2009
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Our language can be written down!
Climbing a tree for a better view
Seeing alphabet chart for the first time
Expansion of MLE to neighboring Province: 2009
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How many want to learn to read and write?
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New school board membersjoin MLE teacher training to learn to read
Community literacy monitors from Ratanakiri teaching literacy and hygiene songs
(trainers are volunteer literacy teachers themselves)
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2002 MLE Seminar:Ministry of Education officials admire vernacular language desktop publishing by local language curriculum teams
Networking:Seminars bring together all levels:Ministry, Province, District, Village levels
Official approval: 2010
Influencing national policy for MTB-MLE through NFE
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Overcomingchallenges….
Bonfire for lighting
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Logistical issues: maintenance for lights is crucialSolar panels introduced through the NFE program are the chief source of light in the villages
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Overcoming challenges….Especially in 2006-2007 when MTB MLE started ‘taking off’ for Kavet language
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Teacher in shanty and outdoor classroom
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Overcoming challenges….
Community Libraries
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Travel
Overcoming challenges….
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Nonformal Education MTB-MLE Initiatives help achieve many of these SDGs in countless ways…
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Indigenous Identity -documenting indigenous knowledge
Family reading a poster printed in their own language
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Illustration by Doung Vannra
(Smith and Wisbey, 2013)
Indigenous ethnic minority youth in the Cambodian Highlands contemplating his future as modernization impacts his community:
Which direction to take? How to get there?
Indigenous Identity? Direction? Future?
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Community discussion using local language - Mondulkiri Province
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Bunong Artist -Mondulkiri Province MLE Team
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Illustration: Doung Vannra (Smith and Wisbey, 2013)Which path to take?
Creative community-based MTB-MLE initiatives help equip, empower, and give voice to ethnic minority individuals and communities.
Ethnic minority villagers are actively participating in community development activities, making informed decisions, and choosing the best path for themselves and their families.