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A Pilot Study of the Inherited Tragic Past in Cambodia : Analysis of Teacher Educators’ Experience and Narrative
Get PDFThis paper analyzes the inheritance of past tragedy in the case of Pol-Pot-era Cambodia. I focus on teacher educators’ experiences and narratives to identify how it was inherited within the home and the local community, how it was taught into public education, and what to hope for the next generation. The findings are as follows: 1) Both “bad and good” things were inherited from informants’ family and neighbors. However, the true story of the violence of the era was not transmitted. 2) In the 1990s, modern history education, including that of the Pol Pot era, was restricted in public education. However, interviews revealed that textbooks published in the 1980s were used with the intention of propagating anti-Pol Pot ideas until the early 1990s. 3) There was a common understanding that knowledge of the past tragedy of the Pol Pot era should be transmitted in order to establish peace. For that purpose, they sought to explain its causes and effects in detail. In addition, an informant reported that inheriting knowledge of the Pol Pot’s era afforded an important opportunity to contemplate the true democracy and the nation
Impact of 'Imaging' on Student Learning through Teaching Profession Course : Focus on an Interview Survey
Get PDFThis article describes an interview survey study with students at a famous Institute of Technology in Aichi, Japan used to examine the effects of ‘imaging’ on student learning. The main aim of this study is to understand the effects and logic of the teaching and learning through a teaching profession course, the so called-kyoshokukatei in Japanese University. This course provides learning opportunity as well as school internship to help students to become a school teacher professionally. This research reports mainly on an interview with 7 students (5 undergraduate and 2 graduate). From this study it can be seen that students may be inspired by being involved in the learning task through the course and can be motivated through the mechanism of ‘imaging’. In addition, it can be clarified the impact of ‘imaging’ on student accumulation of knowledge, professional learning, learning how to learn and knowing about construction of theory the underlying subject matters
