Education and Knowledge in Thailand: The Quality Controversy Biography Business and Politics in Asia

Business and Politics in Asia

About the Author

Chulalongkorn University

helping understand the present through the past”—Thongchai Winichakul

Previously an associate professor at Linköping University in Sweden

Education and Knowledge in Thailand: The Quality Controversy Biography Business and Politics in AsiaAlain Mounier and Phasina Tangchuang If an observer asked today whether Thailand is becoming a knowledge based society, the reply might be yesprovided that the country continues to invest in the education of her citizens. Yet the authors of this book take a strongly critical view of Thai education. Investing more money in education is certainly essential, but it will not automatically lead to a knowledge based society. On the contrary, they say,