近百年來柬埔寨華校教育發展之探討

A Study on Development of Chinese School at Cambodia in the Past Hundred Years

本文旨在探討柬埔寨百年來華校教育之發展，除依序分析1953年前、1954-1969年、1970-1990年和1991年後，四階段華人人口及華校教育情形外，更從華人人口、政治、經濟和文化等資源角度，剖析不同階段柬埔寨華校教育發展的基礎。基本上，柬埔寨華校教育歷史發展呈現一種馬蹄型的型態，1950-1969年間是一個高峰，而1990年後則是另一個熱潮。唯現今柬埔寨華校已由早期之華僑教育，轉而成爲一種華文教育，另外，在柬國全日制教育體制影響中，其未來更有朝向全日中柬雙語班發展的現象。

This article explores the development of Chinese School at Cambodia in the past hundred years. In addition to analyze Chinese population and the Chinese School circumstances at four stages sequentially: before 1953, between 1954 and 1969, between 1970 and 1990, and after 1991, this study analyzes those fundamentals of the Chinese School development in Cambodia at different stages from the viewpoint of Chinese population, politics, economics, and culture. Basically, the historical development of Chinese School was presented in an U-shape, which indicated a peak between 1950 and 1969 and another upsurge after 1990. The Cambodian Chinese Schools, nevertheless, has been transformed from an Overseas Chinese education at an early stage to the Chinese Language Education nowadays. In addition, under the influence of full-time education structure of elementary school in Cambodia, there is a tendency toward a development of full-time bilingual classes-Chinese and Cambodian in Cambodian Chinese Schools.