I am worried over how this is going to be initiated. A recent article in the Bangkok Post informed us that basic analytical skills would be taught in Grades 1 to 3, and advanced analytical thinking in Grades 4 to 6 and secondary school.
As with most of the educational initiatives in Thailand, it is the implementation that lets us down. Just how are we supposed to do this? I don't see how it can be started across the board at all levels of education as this is something that takes time for students to understand, especially when they have never been exposed to something as profound before.
Once again, it looks as if critical thinking may well be just another subject taught at schools as an academic subject, much like English. What needs to happen is that it has to be applied to real-life situations so that students can understand why it is so important, and so that they can use it properly.
Some universities such as KMUTT (King Mongkut's University of Technology Thonburi) integrated thinking-skills tasks into their task-based curriculum a few years after the 1999 Education Act was introduced. I am sure there are individual teachers who have designed critical-thinking and problem-solving tasks as part of their daily lesson plans, but these classes are not at the primary-school level where they are supposed to begin.
I am worried over how this is going to be initiated. A recent article in the Bangkok Post informed us that basic analytical skills would be taught in Grades 1 to 3, and advanced analytical thinking in Grades 4 to 6 and secondary school.
As with most of the educational initiatives in Thailand, it is the implementation that lets us down. Just how are we supposed to do this? I don't see how it can be started across the board at all levels of education as this is something that takes time for students to understand, especially when they have never been exposed to something as profound before.
Once again, it looks as if critical thinking may well be just another subject taught at schools as an academic subject, much like English. What needs to happen is that it has to be applied to real-life situations so that students can understand why it is so important, and so that they can use it properly.
Some universities such as KMUTT (King Mongkut's University of Technology Thonburi) integrated thinking-skills tasks into their task-based curriculum a few years after the 1999 Education Act was introduced. I am sure there are individual teachers who have designed critical-thinking and problem-solving tasks as part of their daily lesson plans, but these classes are not at the primary-school level where they are supposed to begin.
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