Education for Enculturating the "Thainess" Ideology: Decolonizing the Siamese Colonial Discourse in the Social Studies Curriculum

Autor/in	Jatuporn, Omsin
Titel	Education for Enculturating the "Thainess" Ideology: Decolonizing the Siamese Colonial Discourse in the Social Studies Curriculum
Quelle	In: Journal of International Social Studies, 6 (2016) 2, S.130-140 (11 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	2327-3585
Schlagwörter	Social Studies; Politics of Education; Global Approach; Global Education; Political Socialization; Educational Change; Educational Policy; Ideology; Citizenship Education; Nationalism; Educational Practices; Social Influences; Curriculum Development; Educational Objectives; Educational Principles; Foreign Countries; Thailand + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Gemeinschaftskunde; Educational policy; Bildungspolitik; Globales Denken; Globales Lernen; Politische Sozialisation; Bildungsreform; Politics of education; Ideologie; Citizenship; Education; Politische Bildung; Politische Erziehung; Staatsbürgerliche Erziehung; Nationalismus; Bildungspraxis; Sozialer Einfluss; Curriculum; Development; Curriculumentwicklung; Lehrplan; Entwicklung; Educational objective; Bildungsziel; Erziehungsziel; Bildungsprinzip; Ausland
Abstract	After the junta came to power in May 2014, the military government started exercising their nation-centric hegemony through the educational policies and curriculum planning. Contemporary curriculum reform is employed as a mechanism for maintaining the status quo of elites group who have held privileged positions among the Thais. Looking through the social studies curriculum, it becomes the centerpiece of public schools' efforts to cultivate younger generations into what it means to be "Thainess." However, Thainess becomes inevitably hybrid to certain extents in the era of globalization. By looking into the contemporary context of education from the political dimensions of curriculum and cultural studies, I argue that if educationalists are to educate young Thais for global citizenship in today's pluralistic society, the social studies curriculum must go beyond the Siamese colonization of knowledge construction, and also provides pedagogical spaces of the experiences, knowledge, and perspectives of diverse people in Thai society. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01