Northern Illinois University
Center for Southeast Asian Studies
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

The following lesson plans and teaching resources have been developed by K-12 teachers, pre-service education students, students of Southeast Asia, faculty and other Southeast Asian experts

Southeast Asia-General

• Teaching Activities for Southeast Asia: Crossroads of the World textbook (PDF)
• Origins of Religion in Southeast Asia (PDF)
• Southeast Asia Unit for Middle School (PDF)
• Population Diversity in Southeast Asia (PDF)
• Southeast Asian Local Customs (PDF)
• Southeast Asia Introduction/Review (PDF)
• Southeast Asian Food and Culture (PDF)
• What is Southeast Asia? (PDF)
• Coral Reefs in Insular Southeast Asia and Their Inhabitants (PDF)

Cambodia

• Cambodian Genocide Literature Circles (PDF)
• Middle School Unit on Human Rights and the Cambodian Genocide (PDF)
• The Khmer Rouge and Survival Stories from Cambodia (PDF)
• Nine Cambodia Lessons Using the book, Soul Survivors: Stories of Women and Children in Cambodia (PDF)
• The Khmer Rouge (PDF)

Indonesia

• The Three Worlds of Bali Listening Guide (PDF)
• Performance Art: Wayang Golek and the Ramayana (PDF)
• Wayang (PDF)

Vietnam

• Vietnam Was More Than Just a War (PDF)
• The Vietnam Version of Cinderella (PDF)

This set of global and human rights lesson plans are grounded in the rich history and contemporary diversity of the Philippines and developed as a result of a four-week Fulbright-Hays Group Projects Abroad Short-Term Seminar in the summer of 2015. The seminar examined the tension between ethno-religious diversity and civil society's efforts to improve the country's record in response to ethnic conflict, rebuilding democratic institutions such as a free press and free election, and advocating respect for human rights and a dismantling of a culture of impunity for political, economic and military elites. The participants were exposed to a wide range of perceptions of how various sectors of developing nations instantiate and understand the relationship between the state, local authority and human rights.

Agriculture

Contract Farming and Rural Development in the Philippines (PDF) (Community College: 200 level)
Paul R. Edleman, Sauk Valley Community College

Economics

Emerging Economies: The Philippines (PDF) (Community College: 100-200 level)
Sowjanya Dharmasankar, Waubonsee Community College

Fine Arts

Filipina Artists and Feminist Art (PDF) (Community College)
Jennifer Rose Hasso, Harold Washington College/Triton College

Poverty and Migration in Art (PDF) (Community College)
Jennifer Rose Hasso, Harold Washington College/Triton College

Social Protest in Art (PDF) (Community College)
Jennifer Rose Hasso, Harold Washington College/Triton College

Geography

Philippine Migration, Remittances, and Overseas Filipino Workers (PDF) (9-12th Grade)
Anne Sharkey, Huntley High School

History

Arab Spring (PDF) (9-12th Grade)
Michael Fauerbach, St. Anne Community High School

Comparison of Spanish Colonization: Latin America and the Philippines (PDF) (9-12th Grade)
Anne Sharkey, Huntley High School

Ferdinand Marcos and Nicolae Ceausescu (PDF) (9-12th Grade)
Doug Kotlarczyk, Lake Forest High School

Did the Actions of the United States during the American-Philippine War Reflect the Ideas of Benevolent Assimilations? (PDF) (11th Grade)
Clayton Henricksen, Huntley High School

Jose Rizal and the Construction of National Identity: Colonialism and Nationalism (PDF) (9-12th Grade)
Doug Kotlarczyk, Lake Forest High School

Responsibility to Protect-R2P (PDF) (Community College: 200 level)
Paul R. Edleman, Sauk Valley Community College

Should the United States Annex the Philippines? (PDF) (11th Grade)
Clayton Henricksen, Huntley High School

The Philippine American War (PDF) (9-12th Grade)
Doug Kotlarczyk, Lake Forest High School

Human Rights

Application of Human Rights Principles to Philippine Corruption (PDF) (Community College)
Kathy Westman, Waubonsee Community College

Conceptually Understanding Human Rights (PDF) (9th Grade)
Clayton Henricksen, Huntley High School

Corruption in the Philippines: A Human Rights Problem (PDF) (Community College: 100-200 level)
Sowjanya Dharmasankar, Waubonsee Community College

Have the Philippines fulfilled their Responsibility to Protect Human Rights? (PDF) (9th Grade)
Clayton Henricksen, Huntley High School

Human and Civil Rights: A Comparison between the Philippines and America's Struggle for Rights through Modern Times (PDF) (9-12th Grade)
Michael Fauerbach, St. Anne Community High School

Human Rights and Exhibit Space (PDF) (Community College)
Jennifer Rose Hasso, Harold Washington College/Triton College

Human Rights in the Philippines and the US: An Examination of the Prison Industrial Complex (PDF) (Community College: 100-200 level)
Edward C. Davis IV, Malcolm X College

Human Rights Issues in Conflict Zones (PDF) (9-12th Grade)
Anne Sharkey, Huntley High School

Indigenous and Tribal Peoples (PDF) (9-12th Grade)
Michael Fauerbach, St. Anne Community High School

Indigenous Peoples Debates (PDF) (9-12th Grade)
Doug Kotlarczyk, Lake Forest High School

Indigenous People's Rights in the Philippines (PDF) (Community College: 100-200 level)
Edward C. Davis IV, Malcolm X College

Poverty in the Philippines: A Human Rights Problem (PDF) (Community College: 100-200 level)
Sowjanya Dharmasankar, Waubonsee Community College

Using Photo Images to Teach the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and Philippine Human Rights (PDF) (Community College: 200 level)
Paul R. Edleman, Sauk Valley Community College

The United Nations and Human Rights (PDF) (9-12th Grade)
Michael Fauerbach, St. Anne Community High School

Language

Language in the Philippines (Community College: 100-200 level)
Edward C. Davis IV, Malcolm X College

Politics

Philippine Government Structure with a Focus on the Philippine Barangay (PDF) (Community College: 100 level)
Paul R. Edleman, Sauk Valley Community College

The Role of the Cold War in Martial Law Politics (PDF) (9-12th Grade)
Anne Sharkey, Huntley High School

Religious Diversity

Religious Diversity in the Philippines: Examining the Rizalistas (PDF) (Community College: 100-200 level)
Edward C. Davis IV, Malcolm X College

Sociology

The Missing Sociological Imagination: Sociological Functionalist Theory that Shapes the Filipino Social Consciousness in the Philippines (PDF) (Community College)
Kathy Westman, Waubonsee Community College

Web Resources

• Commission on Human Rights of the Philippines
• Karapatan: Alliance for the Advancement of People's Rights
• Office of the Presidential Advisor on the Peace Process
• Republic Act 8371: Rights of Indigenous Peoples in the Philippines
• UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People
• UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights

• First-person narratives (PDF)
• Movie list (PDF)
• The Khmer Rouge period (PDF)

These syllabi have been developed by three northern Illinois community college educators who accompanied CSEAS Director Judy Ledgerwood on a three-week study tour of Cambodia in the summer of 2016. The study tour was supported in part with funding through the Center's U.S. Department of Education Title VI grant.

• Artistic Intellect: Cambodian Art in Political and Historic Discourse (PDF) (Community College: 200 level or above, English/ Composition, Regional Study Abroad, Humanities), Willie J. Morris, Harper College
• Those Who are Made Toys: Khmer Rouge Youth Mobilization, Indoctrination and Organization (PDF) (Community College: 200 level or above, English, World Literature, Regional Study Abroad), Willie J. Morris, Harper College
• International Relations (PDF) (Community College), Paul Edelman, Sauk Valley Community College
• Introduction to Cambodian History, Politics and Society (PDF) (Community College), Paul Edelman, Sauk Valley Community College
• The Khmer Rouge (PDF) (Community College), Paul Edelman, Sauk Valley Community College
• Introduction to Sociology and Cambodia (PDF) (Community College), Kathy Westman, Waubonsee Community College
• Gender Issues in Cambodia (PDF) (Community College), Kathy Westman, Waubonsee Community College
• Global Contemporary Social Issues (PDF) (Community College), Kathy Westman, Waubonsee Community College

• Country-by-country Review

• A Conceptual and Visual Comparison of Religious Architecture - East and West (PDF)- Richard Cooler, Professor Emeritus, Art History
• The Art and Culture of Burma (PDF) - Richard Cooler, Professor Emeritus, Art History
• Islam: A Worldwide Religion and its Impact on Southeast Asia (PDF)- Susan Russell, Professor Emerita, Anthropology
• The Mindanao Conflict and Prospects for Peace in the Southern Philippines (PDF) - Excerpted from Mindanao: A Perspective on Youth, Inter-Ethnic Dialogue and Conflict Resolution In the Southern Philippines by Susan D. Russell, Lina Davide-Ong, April Rica Gonzalez, Rey Ty, Nagasura T. Madale, and Noemi A. Medina
• Wat Xieng Thong Temple in Luang Prabang, Laos - Constance Wilson, Professor Emeritus, History (deceased)