Citizen Consciousness in Cambodia

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction

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   Pages 1-11

3. Country Context and Current Political Situation

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   Pages 13-26

4. Decentralisation and Social Accountability

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5. Introduction of the Research’s Conceptual Framework

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6. Normative Anchor: Academic and Programmatic Citizenships

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7. Subject-Specific Anchor: (Global) Citizenship Education

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8. Conceptual Anchor: Empirical Citizenship Constructions

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9. Centroid: Peculiarities, Similarities, Differences, and Limits

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   Pages 167-187

10. Conclusion

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11. Academic and Programmatic Outlook

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12. Back Matter

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Johannes Ph. Backhaus applies the Model of Education Reconstruction (MER) to the context of a social accountability intervention in Cambodia. This book is not an evaluation but adopts a qualitative perspective on the learning approach applied by the researched intervention. The research found that the learning intervention does not systematically include learners’ pre-existing social knowledge. It would potentially benefit from systematically harvesting and reinforcing pre-held convictions to sustainably motivate participation. It does not address potentially sensitive topics while interviewees show a sophisticated and holistic understanding of these. Finally, there are inconsistencies between the program’s aims and objectives. In sum, the piloted approach offers pathways on how to beneficially include qualitative perspectives on similar development interventions. 

• social accountability
• post-colonial, citizenship
• political education
• education for democratic citizenship
• Cambodia
• engagement
• participation

• Johannesburg, South Africa

  Johannes Ph. Backhaus

Johannes Ph. Backhaus is a development practitioner with more than ten years work experience in different civil society organisations predominantly focussed on supporting engagement and advocacy.

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