This article describes the experience of a foreign journalism instructor in Cambodia. One needs patience, cultural sensitivity, willingness to shift one’s dominant learning paradigms, aptitude to adapt to the local culture and empathise with the local students’ stance without straying from the core values and standards of good journalism.
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