A Decade of Education Reform in Thailand: Broken Promise or Impossible Dream?

Autor/inn/en	Hallinger, Philip; Lee, Moosung
Titel	A Decade of Education Reform in Thailand: Broken Promise or Impossible Dream?
Quelle	In: Cambridge Journal of Education, 41 (2011) 2, S.139-158 (20 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0305-764X
Schlagwörter	Elementary Secondary Education; Educational Change; Foreign Countries; Principals; Change Strategies; Program Effectiveness; Program Implementation; Educational Policy; Policy Analysis; Educational Assessment; Educational Indicators; Trend Analysis; Administrator Attitudes; Educational Improvement; Background; Focus Groups; Educational Development; Educational Legislation; Thailand + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Bildungsreform; Ausland; Principal; Schulleiter; Lösungsstrategie; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; Politikfeldanalyse; Education; assessment; Bewertungssystem; Educational indicato; Bildungsindikator; Trendanalyse; Teaching improvement; Unterrichtsentwicklung; Hintergrundinformation; Bildungsentwicklung; Bildungsrecht; Schulgesetz
Abstract	This study addresses the perceived gap between the vision of education reform in Thailand embodied in its Education Reform Law of 1999 and the results of implementation a decade later. Drawing upon opportunistic data obtained from a sample of 162 Thai school principals, we analyze trends in reform implementation across schools in all regions and levels of Thailand's K-12 education system. The results suggest that a decade following the formal initiation of education reform, changes in teaching and learning, ICT implementation and school management systems have yet to engage the nation's teachers to a substantial degree. The lack of results is linked to a reform strategy that has emphasized top-down implementation and a cultural predisposition to treat change as an event rather than as a long-term process. (Contains 5 tables, 4 figures and 3 notes.) (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10