The locus of Buddhist pedagogy and decolonising the ‘Thai university’

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ID12725959
AuthorsA Ray (0000-0002-9043-7825, National Institute Of Technology Silchar, corresponding author), Pagorn Singsuriya (0000-0001-5857-1883, Mahidol University), Piyanat Prathomwong (Mahidol University), Worapong Charoenwong (Mahidol University)
Year2024
Pages1-8
Publication date2024-07-30
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueGlobalisation Societies and Education (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1476-7724 • E-ISSN: 1476-7732
PublisherTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/14767724.2024.2384050
OpenAlexW4401133836
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited14

The conjoint processes of nation-building and the construction of a homogenous national culture in Thailand have often leveraged Buddhism as a unifying force and cultural heritage of the Thai people. Owing to this, Buddhist pedagogy has been integrated into the Thai national curriculum, and accordingly, the modern Thai education system is steeped in Buddhist values. This is at odds with the modern-secular registers of pedagogy modelled after the Enlightenment project. Departing from here, this paper seeks to understand: how is the Buddhist religious order integrated into the "modern" Thai higher educational system? How, and how far, does it coexist with(in) the so-called modern universities, and what are its implications? Conversely, how do the "modern" curricula sit with Buddhism, both as an epistemology and a religious faith? Further, how does this then bear upon the line between the traditional-religious and the secular-modern as imagined from within the framework of the modern-secular episteme

Buddhism · Geography · Higher education · Mathematics education · Pedagogy · Political science · Sociology · Asian Geopolitics and Ethnography · Gender Studies · Innovative Teaching Methodologies in Social Sciences · Psychology · Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies

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