This short but poignant statement by Nicholas Bennett in the 1960s may still be relevant to contemporary Thai society. In his book entitled “Education in Underdeveloped Countries”, Bennett (1965) argued that education for people in the northeast of Thailand should be absolutely different from that for Bangkok citizens.
Similarly, education for Thais should be dissimilar to that for Americans. Unfortunately, policy borrowing led to impractical education that was not locally grounded and not tailored to the needs of individuals. It then unsurprisingly resulted in wastage of investment in education of both individuals and Thai society at large.
Influenced by standard-based reform for increasing economic productivity introduced by world hegemonies, such as the OECD and The American No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB), Thai students in current education reform are persistently being overwhelmed by examinations. They are called “stupid” because of their poor performance in the national O-NET and international standardised tests, such as PISA and TIMSS. Several studies of manpower preparation for the Asean community also identify this failure as a weakness deterring Thailand’s competitiveness in the globalised knowledge-based society. Henceforth, the present education reform will announce its strategies and indicators to raise the mathematical mean of O-NET scores in core subjects to at least 50 per cent, and achievement of Thai students in PISA is anticipated to be higher than the international average.
This short but poignant statement by Nicholas Bennett in the 1960s may still be relevant to contemporary Thai society. In his book entitled “Education in Underdeveloped Countries”, Bennett (1965) argued that education for people in the northeast of Thailand should be absolutely different from that for Bangkok citizens.
Similarly, education for Thais should be dissimilar to that for Americans. Unfortunately, policy borrowing led to impractical education that was not locally grounded and not tailored to the needs of individuals. It then unsurprisingly resulted in wastage of investment in education of both individuals and Thai society at large.
Influenced by standard-based reform for increasing economic productivity introduced by world hegemonies, such as the OECD and The American No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB), Thai students in current education reform are persistently being overwhelmed by examinations. They are called “stupid” because of their poor performance in the national O-NET and international standardised tests, such as PISA and TIMSS. Several studies of manpower preparation for the Asean community also identify this failure as a weakness deterring Thailand’s competitiveness in the globalised knowledge-based society. Henceforth, the present education reform will announce its strategies and indicators to raise the mathematical mean of O-NET scores in core subjects to at least 50 per cent, and achievement of Thai students in PISA is anticipated to be higher than the international average.
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