ASIAN DIALOGUES PROJECT (DEVELOPING GLOBAL CITIZEN): S.M.K CHUNG HUA STUDENTS ARE PARTICIPATING IN THE GLOBAL CONNECTING CLASSROOM ACTIVITIES

MIRI - Six Form One A students of S.M.K. Chung Hua, Miri, were chosen to represent cluster Miri-Bintulu, Sarawak, in the "Student Focus Group" interview project, organized  by British Council and Jabatan Pelajaran Sarawak. 
 
The "Student Focus Group" interview project is to find out what young people know and feel about local and international issues; the role young people feel they play in local and international society; what being a Global Citisen means and what they see as representing a Global Dimension. 
 
The chosen students were Chin Jia Han, Chong Min Yee, Joon Woan Chieng, Lee Zia Hern, Voon Hie Wei and Yong Siew Siew.  Miss Sii Ling, the Chief Coordinator of this project, assisted by Mr Heneikan Laluan, and Miss Chia Yong Yin (Mandarin teacher) conducted the interview. The interview recording will be done by Mr Rakin Ak Sebastian (Miri Education officer) and it will be sent to the British Council Thailand Siam Square office to be processed and then published.
 
Connecting Classroom is about helping schools, teachers and students develop a truly Global Dimension to teaching and learning, creating Global Citizens who feel empowered to contribute to change and are aware of and understand issues of inequalities within and between societies; diversity of cultures and societies; interdependences between communities, cultures and nations; different political systems; different views of local and global economic and social development; causes and effects of conflict, locally and globally and relationships between conflict and peace.
 
Through carrying out this "Student Focus Group" interview project amongst a cross-section of young people from different cultures and societies in the UK and the 7 participating East Asian countries now, and then helping our young people to engage in curriculum-based international school projects, the organizer will continue to follow the students' progress.
 
The main objectives are to broaden learners' international horizons; change our young people's perceptions; increase their knowledge of local and international issues give young people a platform where they can challenge viewpoints which perpetuate and take responsibility for the effects of our lifestyles on people and the environment. Most importantly, it is to develop our young people into truly Global Citizens.