The child friendly school movement and its role in promoting stakeholder-driven development through the Southeast Asia region

• Main Author: Bredenberg, Kurt
• Format: Technical Report
• Language: English
• Published: Kampuchean Action for Primary Education (KAPE) 2014
• Subjects: Child friendly school movement; Child friendly school environment development; Child friendly school environment
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/255
• Institution: Royal University of Phnom Penh

Child friendly school programming has become a growing mantra through out South East Asia region. In recent year, it has become increasingly identified with stakeholder-driven development models. This panel discussion traces how the CFS movement arose mainly as a reaction to the " Effective School Movement" , which in many developing countries have morphed into an economic model of an educational development, focusing more on efficiency and numbers than on quality and children's welfare. Because of its emphasis on participatory learning and action approaches, this movement has become highly eclectic in character, manifesting different direction in different places depending on input from the grassroots. Nevertheless, there are a number of defining themes that do seem common to programms to most countries in South East Asia region including a focus on holistic and right-base programming, avoidance of stand-alone intervention, and dimension based assessment of educational contexts. The panels will discuss how the CFS programming promoted stakeholder-driven development focusing in particular on the dimension aspects of CFS project and how this context neutral characteristic enable. But a short step to the idea of activity menus and contextualized programming. This in turn has facilitated the emergence of a common regional framework for countries to benefit from each other's experience.