The Maritime Silk Road Confucius Institute has been at the forefront of providing world peace and development in the Asian region through cultural academic exchange programs, and political and economic diplomacy to create the idealism of amity and comity among the sovereign states.
The Maritime Silk Road has been there as part of the economic, political, and cultural activities of the Asian people for many centuries It needs to be revived again not only for the sake of knowing it but the essence of consciousness which transcends what is moral and right in the quest of nirvana that revolves within the center of heart and soul of the human society.
The essence of the “Belt and Road Initiative” demands the full dedication of humanity to open their minds to understand the bright side in a long dark tunnel of mistrust by world leaders. The openness diversifies the image of human compassion dictated by trust and confidence to live in harmony of love and peace among nations.
The constructive bipolar view of closeness defines the oneness of spirits when entangled with trust the world will shower us the flowers of good deeds among men never seen even since the birth of the Maritime Silk Road that was economically and politically built by our forefathers. Let this book continuously inspire us to settle our differences on what we think is good for us not for others.
We think so much about world dominations based on our political interests and ideologies that we never thought that destroyed the very essence of what we are in this world. The existence of humanity must be cherished by what we have done in the past like the presence of the Maritime Silk Road that brought us together as “ One Asian nation” with our allies on the other sphere of influence as we deal with them peaceful diplomacy.
Let this book be dedicated to all of us to bring the greater glory on “Oneness, Openness and Closeness” that synthesize our ideal academic understanding of the “ Belt and Road Initiative” within the loyal commitment of the Maritime Silk Rod Confucius Institute...
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Based on the Traimit Model of Education, the Confucius Classroom at Traimittwittayalai High School has offered training courses and organized an international Chinese competition known as the “Chinese Language Bridge-Top Crown Diamond Cup.” This competition has attracted over 32,500 competitors and professionals as a model of Chinese and foreign educational cooperation. The 32 volumes of Happy Travel in China series of textbooks which are developed with the cooperation of Tianjin Experimental High School, have been widely used by more than 10,000 students in Thailand. It organized book exhibitions and the Hanban donated high-tech function school facilities and equipment for the first Confucius Classroom. Based on this research, it would like to study the Traimit Model as the first Confucius Classroom to the educational contribution and management along the academic objectives and goals, teachers’ competence, adequacy of instructional materials, academic management, and Confucian academic achievement to the basic education program in primary, junior and senior high school. As an effect of the educational management of the first Confucius School, the study determined the influence of student performance along the values, formation, spiritual development, human relationship, behavioral development, and cognitive development.
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Traimitwittayalai Public High School is exclusively for boys located in the Traimit Temple compound which offers lessons to students from junior high to senior high school. In 2000, TWHS was named by the Ministry of Education as the “Chinese Language and Culture Center of Bangkok” and was later recognized as the “Center for the Promotion of Quality-Oriented Education in Chinese in the Chinese Language and Culture of Bangkok “by the Basic Education Division of Thailand.
In early 2000, Traimitwittayalai High School started to teach Chinese and signed a Sister School Agreement with Tianjin Experimental High School two years later. In 2006, with the approval of Hanban, it established the Confucius Classroom at Traimitwittayalai High School. This was the first Confucius classroom in the world. It was founded in order to teach the Chinese language and spread Chinese culture to overseas students. The Confucius Classroom at Traimitwittayalai offers the following Chinese teaching courses and programs according to the local instance: (1) Teach Chinese and sponsor cultural activities and Chinese competitions; (2) Train teachers to teach Chinese in primary and middle schools; (3) Organize summer and winter camp in China for primary and middle school students; and (4) Compile teaching materials.
The Chinese government has the obligation of the Hanban Headquarters: (1) to authorize the use of the title “Confucius Classroom”, and provide logos and classroom emblems; (2) to provide the necessary start-up fund, and provide a set amount of annual fund according to needs; (3) to provide 1,000 volumes of books, audio-visual, multimedia materials and courseware, and authorize the use of online courses; and (4) to send Chinese instructors or volunteers according to needs and pay for their airfares and salaries.
The obligations of Confucius Classroom at Traimitwittayalai: (1) to provide an appropriate site for the Confucius Classroom to carry out its activities; to provide the necessary conditions and facility management to establish the Confucius Classroom and take charge of the setting, management, and maintenance; (2) to provide necessary administrative personnel (full-time or part-time) the related payment and open the special account for the Confucius Classroom in the local Bank of China; (3) to provide necessary working conditions for the Chinese instructors; (4) assist the Chinese party in the Classroom with all immigration procedures; and (5) agree to discuss with the headquarters any further requirements of the Confucius Classroom. However, the main focus of educational cooperation and the one that has had the most impact on Thailand is Chinese language teaching.
Since 1992 when the teaching of Chinese language in public and private educational institutions was officially permitted by the Thai government after about half a century of tight control, there has been an unprecedented demand for Chinese language teachers in the country. In response to this situation, an agreement was reached for China to send volunteer Chinese language teachers to Thailand, among other steps taken, which started in 2003 with the initial batch of 23 people, an unprecedented measure taken by the Chinese government to help overseas Chinese language teaching through voluntary teachers. By 2009 the number of volunteer teachers sent to Thailand increased to 1,000 a year, and further increased to around 1200 since 2010, by this year 11 batches with a total of around 7,000 voluntary teachers had been sent to Thailand making Thailand the largest volunteer teacher recipients’ country across the globe. In 2005, one year after China established the first Confucius institute in South Korea, a proposal to establish a Confucius Institute in Thailand was brought up, and the first agreement was signed in Beijing between China’s Hanban (Office of Chinese Language Council International) and Thailand’s Kasetsart University to set up the first Confucius Institute, initially named Confucius Institute in Bangkok. By the end of 2006, based on the agreement between the Thai Ministry of Education and China’s Hanban, 10 out of the 12 Confucius institutes and 1 Confucius classroom, the first in the world, were officially opened. On November 18, 2006, Pang Li then was the First Secretary of the Education Section of the Chinese Embassy in Thailand and Kwan Ying General Secretary of the Thai Minister of the Ministry of Education attended the unveiling ceremony of the world’s first Confucius Classroom at Traimitwittayalai High School. Under the leadership of Hanban, the Confucius Classroom at Traimitwittayalai High School launched many activities on education and cultural exchanges between China and Thailand by the efforts made by the Chinese and Thai partners, especially the support provided by Venerable Phradhamphawanawitkron. As the first Confucius Classroom, her Majesty Queen of Thailand Maha Vajiralongkorn, Her
Royal Highness Princess of Thailand Sirindhorn, her Royal Highness Princess of Thailand Chula horn Walalak, and over 30 Chinese and Thai political leaders and military senior officials participated in the activities held in Confucius Classroom at Traimittwittayalai High School. In 2010, the Thai Confucius Classroom through the sponsorship of the Division of Confucius Institute Affairs invited the Chargés d affaires Lv Jian, Ms. Narisara Chavaltanpipat, Deputy Education Minister of Thailand, and Zhang Xiangyang, Deputy Director of Education Commission of Chinese Tianjin Municipality, to unveil the bronze statue and attended the launch ceremony for the two books commemorating the 5th Anniversary of the Confucius Classroom: On the Common Enterprise and Master Zhaokun Thongchai & Tianjin and the launch ceremony of the “Happy China Tour” Chinese teaching website.
Chargés d affaires Lv Jian stated that the Confucius Classroom at Traimitwittayalai High School, as the world’s first Confucius Classroom, has carried out various Chinese cultural activities, such as the Chinese Bridge Chinese Proficiency Competition, the compilation of the “Happy China Tour” textbooks as well as offering Chinese cultural curricula which have started a new era in the teaching of Chinese and Sino-Thai cultural exchange. Confucianism has a great influence on China and the world; the Confucius Institute and Confucius Classroom have become a cultural brand of China as well as being messengers linking the cultural exchanges between China and the world. The unveiling ceremony for the Confucius bronze statue is of special significance. Lv Jian also expressed the hope that the Confucius Classroom would make full use of its merits to become a pioneer in the dissemination of Chinese culture.
Chargés d’affaires Lv Jian mentioned in his address that since 1975, frequent exchanges between high-level leaders of the two countries have injected fresh vigor into the lasting, comprehensive, and in-depth development of bilateral relations. The two countries have made significant achievements in friendly exchanges across various spheres over the past 35 years. In recent years, Chinese education has become a highlight of the two sides’ cooperation. As the world’s first Confucius Classroom, the Confucius Classroom at Traimitwittayalai High School has been committed to the promotion of the Chinese language and culture through all kinds of means and has boosted the development of the friendship between the two peoples under the leadership of Master Zhaokun Thongchai, chairman of the Thai Council of the Confucius Classroom. Lv also hopes that the celebrations help people in Thailand to understand China further in order to aid Sino-Thai friendship in enduring generation after generation.
Over recent years, the Confucius Institutes' development has been sharpened and they have provided scope for people all over the world to learn about Chinese language and culture. In addition, they have become a platform for cultural exchanges between China and the world as well as a bridge reinforcing friendship and cooperation between China and the rest of the world and are much welcomed across the globe. Through the joint efforts of China and the Confucius Institute host countries in addition to the enthusiasm and active support of people all over the world, by the end of 2010, there were 322 Confucius Institutes and 369 Confucius Classrooms established in 96 countries. In addition, some 250 institutions from over 50 countries have expressed requirements for establishing Confucius Institutes/Classrooms, among them some of the world's top universities.
Confucius Institutes/Classrooms adopt flexible teaching patterns and adapt to suit local conditions when teaching the Chinese language and promoting culture in foreign primary schools, secondary schools, communities, and enterprises. In 2009, Confucius Institutes/Classrooms around the world offered 9,000 Chinese courses of a multitude of styles, with a total enrollment of 260,000, a 130,000-strong enrollment increase from the previous year. More than 7,500 cultural exchange activities took place, involving the participation of over 3 million reaching double the participation figures of the corresponding period of the previous year.
Based on the Traimit Model of Education, the Confucius Classroom at Traimittwittayalai High School has offered training courses and organized an international Chinese competition known as the “Chinese Language Bridge-Top Crown Diamond Cup.” This competition has attracted over 32,500 competitors and professionals as a model of Chinese and foreign educational cooperation. The 32 volumes of Happy Travel in China series of textbooks which are developed with the cooperation of Tianjin Experimental High School, have been widely used by more than 10,000 students in Thailand. It organized book exhibitions and the Hanban donated high-tech function school facilities and equipment for the first Confucius Classroom. Based on this research, it would like to study the Traimit Model as the first Confucius Classroom to the educational contribution and management along the academic objectives and goals, teachers’ competence, adequacy of instructional materials, academic management, and Confucian academic achievement to the basic education program in primary, junior and senior high school. As an effect of the educational management of the first Confucius School, the study determined the influence of student performance along the values, formation, spiritual development, human relationship, behavioral development, and cognitive development.
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