Bunong exploration

[wr_row][wr_column]Exploration: Bunong minority

Number of students: 12

Duration: 10 Aug­30 Sep

Learning Facilitators: Phearun/ Jaime

Essential Questions:

1. What are the values and traditions for Bunong minorities?

2. How have they preserved their cultural traditions sustainably?

3. What are the issues they are facing in their living situation presently?

4. What are there different life cycle between Bunong and Khmer people?

5. What are the differences of lifestyles between Bunong and Khmer people?

6. How does their education differ from Liger or government schools?

7. What are the advantages and disadvantages of their cultural superstitions?

Description:

Almost all countries of the world are existing minorities, including Cambodia as well. There are approximately

twenty indigenous minorities living in Cambodia, which most of them inhabit the Northeast and East. In this

exploring project, we will basically study about Bunong people who is one of the Cambodian indigenous

minorities. Students will conduct cultural studies, particularly their culture, belief, lifestyle, interaction, tradition,

right, living situation and so on. In this research, students will partly focus on the present issues applying

influences over their living conditions. The faith, which is a crucial component, will be proposed to students to

explore as it is supposed to be a fascinating topic and different from Khmer majorities. Also, we will find out

how they are able to preserve their cultural traditions even it’s currently under the management of government

authorities. Increasingly, we will have a field trip to Mondulkiri, where Bunong communities are situated in, to

discover directly from them by interviewing and seeing obvious aspects surrounding them. The trip will be

collaborated with ICSO, which is closely working with indigenous communities in Cambodia. After seven weeks

over the course, students will be able to illustrate their understandings of Bunong people and be aware of

current issues they are facing, so they can find some solutions to cope with those. Students will publish a book

with photographs, that will be described, they captured as their final product of the exploration to share with

government schools in Cambodia, as well as the world. Additionally, they will have practiced with learning

outcome skills such as interviewing, presentation, computer development and experienced learning outside the

classroom and expertise with photographs.[/wr_column]][wr_text]Exploration: Bunong minority

Number of students: 12

Duration: 10 Aug­30 Sep

Learning Facilitators: Phearun/ Jaime

Essential Questions:

1. What are the values and traditions for Bunong minorities?

2. How have they preserved their cultural traditions sustainably?

3. What are the issues they are facing in their living situation presently?

4. What are there different life cycle between Bunong and Khmer people?

5. What are the differences of lifestyles between Bunong and Khmer people?

6. How does their education differ from Liger or government schools?

7. What are the advantages and disadvantages of their cultural superstitions?

Description:

Almost all countries of the world are existing minorities, including Cambodia as well. There are approximately

twenty indigenous minorities living in Cambodia, which most of them inhabit the Northeast and East. In this

exploring project, we will basically study about Bunong people who is one of the Cambodian indigenous

minorities. Students will conduct cultural studies, particularly their culture, belief, lifestyle, interaction, tradition,

right, living situation and so on. In this research, students will partly focus on the present issues applying

influences over their living conditions. The faith, which is a crucial component, will be proposed to students to

explore as it is supposed to be a fascinating topic and different from Khmer majorities. Also, we will find out

how they are able to preserve their cultural traditions even it’s currently under the management of government

authorities. Increasingly, we will have a field trip to Mondulkiri, where Bunong communities are situated in, to

discover directly from them by interviewing and seeing obvious aspects surrounding them. The trip will be

collaborated with ICSO, which is closely working with indigenous communities in Cambodia. After seven weeks

over the course, students will be able to illustrate their understandings of Bunong people and be aware of

current issues they are facing, so they can find some solutions to cope with those. Students will publish a book

with photographs, that will be described, they captured as their final product of the exploration to share with

government schools in Cambodia, as well as the world. Additionally, they will have practiced with learning

outcome skills such as interviewing, presentation, computer development and experienced learning outside the

classroom and expertise with photographs.

New pome

In Liger I always learn new thing and this is one of the thing that learn.

 

Who am I?

I
am Sophat
I have two brothers
I am a 13 year old boy
I am a boy that likes to play sport
I am a Cambodian boy
I like Cambodian food
I have a big dream
I do what I want
I like being
FUN

Culture Shock Description

Exploration Name: Culture Shock

Exploration Dates: October 6 – November 21

Number of Students: 13

Essential Questions:

What are the Khmer Beliefs?
What ceremonies do Cambodians always celebrate?
What is culture shock?
How do visitors to Cambodia feel when they get here and what can we do to help them?

Description:

Culture Shock is the Exploration that studied the culture in Cambodia. We learned about Khmer Beliefs, General Etiquette in Cambodia and Khmer Ceremonies. To learn more about these things we also did the research on the internet to get more ideas. There are many religions in Cambodia and the religion that nearly all of Cambodians believe in is Buddhism. In Buddhism we believe that when people do the bad thing they will go to hell when they die and they will stay in hell until their bad things are paid. Besides this if people do the good things, when they die they will go to heaven or when there is the next life they can (be) born in the rich family. We also learned about the Khmer Ceremonies. There are: Wedding ceremony, Funeral, Water festival and so on. Water Festival is the ceremony used to celebrate the past because Khmer ancestors used to be at war with other countries. So to help them when they were at war, the king made up this ceremony to help the soldiers feel stronger when they rode on the boat to fight. Cambodian culture also has traditional clothes for each ceremony. When people attend the funeral they should wear the white shirt with the skirt or pants. To be sure with the things that we learned, we also went to Siem Reap to see Angkor Wat, different temples, and the sculptures on the walls.