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Education and Knowledge in Thailand: The Quality Controversy

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Description for Education and Knowledge in Thailand: The Quality Controversy paperback. States that changes in educational policy and approach are moving Thai education away from transmitting and producing knowledge and scholarship, and away from developing and honing individual abilities to think and learn. This book offers theoretical and analytical tools as well as firsthand information - both quantitative and qualitative. Editor(s): Mounier, Alain; Tangchuang, Phasina. Num Pages: 362 pages, 12 illus. BIC Classification: 1FMN; JN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 209 x 142 x 25. Weight in Grams: 340.

Recent changes in educational policy and approach are moving Thai education away from transmitting and producing knowledge and scholarship, and away from developing and honing individual abilities to think and learn, say the authors. This failure parallels world trends: the uncontrolled and unbalanced increase in enrolment; the interference by political and economic interests in the orientation and management of educational institutions; and the commoditization of education -- in particular, privatization, internationalization and vocationalism. These symptoms are diagnostic of the so-called diploma disease that has invaded the system.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Silkworm Books / Trasvin Publications LP Thailand
Number of pages
362
Condition
New
Number of Pages
362
Place of Publication
Chiang Mai, Thailand
ISBN
9789749511855
SKU
V9789749511855
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-1

About Alain Mounier
Alain Mounier is director of research at the Institut de Recherche pour le Developpement. Phasina Tangchuang is a senior researcher and director of the Centre for Education and Labour Studies and an associate professor of education at Chiang Mai University.

Reviews for Education and Knowledge in Thailand: The Quality Controversy
This is a useful addition to a thin literature on education in Thailand. As a World Bank-declared upper-middle income economy, debates on education should be more vigorous that they are in Thailand.
Kevin Hewison
Journal of Contemporary Asia

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