Overview
- The first ever (in English) truly comprehensive book on Thai education
- Illuminates many striking paradoxes associated with Thai education
- Offers rich and extensive empirical data on educational inequalities and disparities in Thailand
- Provides insights into the nature of quality problems at all levels of education
- Includes an appendix with brief biographies of prominent Thai educators, past and present
- Includes two chapters by HRH Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn, one on the history of Thai education and one on the education of the disadvantaged
Part of the book series: Education in the Asia-Pacific Region: Issues, Concerns and Prospects (EDAP, volume 42)
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Keywords
- Buddhist Education
- Education for All
- Thai education
- Thai educational leadership
- Thai higher education
- Thai moral education
- Thai shadow education
- education and inequality in Thailand
- education in Thailand
- language policy in Thailand
- regional educational disparities
- research and development in Thailand
Table of contents (27 chapters)
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Background: The Thai Context
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The Contemporary Thai Educational System
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Major Educational Issues: Inequalities and Disparities
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Education in Thailand
Book Subtitle: An Old Elephant in Search of a New Mahout
Editors: Gerald W. Fry
Series Title: Education in the Asia-Pacific Region: Issues, Concerns and Prospects
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-7857-6
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-10-7855-2Published: 13 November 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-981-10-7857-6Published: 01 November 2018
Series ISSN: 1573-5397
Series E-ISSN: 2214-9791
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: LXXIV, 744
Number of Illustrations: 39 b/w illustrations, 74 illustrations in colour
Topics: International and Comparative Education, Educational Policy and Politics