Overview
- Lays out an epistemic map that helps in understanding the ramifications of the commodification of university knowledge
- Examines international, global, regionalist, and local Thai approaches to higher education
- Uses interview analysis to provide evidence of old and new exchanges among the education community in Thailand
Part of the book series: Postcolonial Studies in Education (PCSE)
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Knowledge, ‘Outsiders’, and the Market
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Front Matter
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Towards a Langsàmǎimài Postmodern Wisdom
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book examines Thai knowledge and wisdom from the perspective of postmodern, postcolonial globalization. Ma Rhea explores the ways in which the Thai university system attempts to balance old knowledge traditions, Buddhist and rural, with new Thai and imported knowledge. It traces the development of Thai university partnerships with outsiders, focusing on the seventy year relationship between Thailand and Australia. In comparison, it analyses the old Thai Buddhist wisdom tradition and in the final chapters proposes its worthiness as a pedagogical pathway for universities globally.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Wisdom, Knowledge, and the Postcolonial University in Thailand
Authors: Zane Ma Rhea
Series Title: Postcolonial Studies in Education
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-37694-7
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-38292-4Published: 09 December 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-37694-7Published: 08 December 2016
Series ISSN: 2946-2339
Series E-ISSN: 2946-2347
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 266
Number of Illustrations: 10 illustrations in colour
Topics: Sociology of Education, Higher Education, Educational Philosophy, Philosophy of Education, Administration, Organization and Leadership, Social Sciences, general