Instructional Leadership in Thailan

Instructional Leadership in Thailand
In this section, we first provide an overview of the institutional context of education in Thailand.
Consistent with the Far West Lab framework, we propose that the institutional context shapes the
exercise of instructional leadership by principals in Thailand. More specifically, the logic behind
our analytical strategy proposes that the adoption of the NEA substantially changed the institutional
context for principal leadership. Thus, it is necessary to describe the nature of the institutional
context in Thailand before and after the reform law was adopted in 1999. In the second
section, we discuss empirical studies of instructional leadership that have been conducted in Thailand.
This will set the stage for our presentation of the methodology and results.