Rok Kern offers educational organisations the opportunity to bring their teachers and students on a journey of learning what it means to engage with aid and development practices to alleviate poverty in communities and advocate for change. Although many short term tours have good intentions, historically they have not always resulted in positive outcomes for communities. Rok Kern helps participants gain a greater understanding of how caring for the poor can be done in healthy ways and in partnership with local leaders around the globe.
Learning for Advocacy
Learn new insights and be equipped as advocates in your own communities and in partnership with international communities.
Learn as Humble Guests
Learn how how religion, history and lived experience shape different cultures’ values and worldviews, and develop skills for understanding other cultures.
Learners as Partners
Learn about how organisations are caring for vulnerable children, the challenges they face and how your community can partner with them in helpful, not harmful ways.
Rok Kern is designed to be an integrated package where teachers and students work with us to explore their personal responses to poverty and how they can best engage in advocacy over a 6-12 month period.
Benefits for Our Participants
The Rok Kern educational study tour provides:
- All of the resources and support for teachers and students that is needed in preparation for the tour.
- Organisation and logistics taken care of during the study tour.
- Further support upon the return to school, and advice on taking the next steps.
Our preparation and reflective materials explore key principles of how to care for vulnerable people and how to enter another’s culture in respectful and honoring ways.
These studies employ flipped learning, preparing the team for what they will see and learn on the trip, maximising the opportunity to wrestle with questions while in country.
Our preparation and reflective materials align with the content of many learning outcomes of the Australian Curriculum and the CAS program of the International Baccalaureate (IB).
Further details of the curriculum connections are located on the description of each module.
Further assistance can be provided regarding assessing these outcomes, by our educational consultant if required.
Study tour includes
Accommodation
Food
Interactive cultural experiences
Support and resourcing for ongoing-advocacy and further curriculum integration
Preparation courses
Visits to CIF and partner organisations
Tourist experiences
All Cambodia-based logistics
Need more information?
Our “About Us” page will provide you with more information about our guiding principles and approach.
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Please note: All our programs require a 1:5 teacher student ratio for the in-country study tour. Also, the content of the education study tour is only suitable for students 16 years and over.
Here are three suggested pathways of how to engage with Rok Kern’s education stream.
Taster Program
- Come a long for a Half or Full day of Interactive Workshops in Phnom Penh using our education versions of our training and development modules. And remember, our Children Belong in Families workshop is FREE.
Full Program
- 20 hours of preparation materials
- 14 day exposure trip (Phnom Penh and Siem Reap)
- 10 hours of debriefing and follow up
Condensed Program
- 10 hours of preparation materials
- 8-10 day exposure trip (Phnom Penh only)
- 10 hours of debriefing and follow up
