Educating for citizenship in a fragile democracy: interrogating civic agenda in Thai higher education

In light of socio-political dynamics at play in contemporary Thailand, higher education (HE) is becoming an important site for citizenship learning. This article interrogates priorities and practices of civic/citizenship education in Thai universities. Data was collected through in-depth interviews...

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Main Author: Vachararutai Boontinand
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spelling th-mahidol.791122022-08-04T18:34:25Z Educating for citizenship in a fragile democracy: interrogating civic agenda in Thai higher education Vachararutai Boontinand Mahidol University Social Sciences In light of socio-political dynamics at play in contemporary Thailand, higher education (HE) is becoming an important site for citizenship learning. This article interrogates priorities and practices of civic/citizenship education in Thai universities. Data was collected through in-depth interviews with leadership in five public universities across Thailand. Findings suggest that civic/citizenship education serves various goals. Despite the call for HE to respond to societal crisis, the discursive practices of formal civic/citizenship education in Thai universities function not only to maintain the state ideology by producing responsible citizens but also serve to supply adaptable and voluntary-minded employees for the market. Thai universities also appropriates civic/citizenship learning for their own institutional branding. In the context where democracy is undermined, civic/citizenship education is depoliticised. 2022-08-04T11:34:25Z 2022-08-04T11:34:25Z 2021-01-01 Article Compare. (2021) 10.1080/03057925.2021.1932420 14693623 03057925 2-s2.0-85107797870 https://repository.li.mahidol.ac.th/handle/123456789/79112 Mahidol University SCOPUS https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?partnerID=HzOxMe3b&scp=85107797870&origin=inward
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Educating for citizenship in a fragile democracy: interrogating civic agenda in Thai higher education
description In light of socio-political dynamics at play in contemporary Thailand, higher education (HE) is becoming an important site for citizenship learning. This article interrogates priorities and practices of civic/citizenship education in Thai universities. Data was collected through in-depth interviews with leadership in five public universities across Thailand. Findings suggest that civic/citizenship education serves various goals. Despite the call for HE to respond to societal crisis, the discursive practices of formal civic/citizenship education in Thai universities function not only to maintain the state ideology by producing responsible citizens but also serve to supply adaptable and voluntary-minded employees for the market. Thai universities also appropriates civic/citizenship learning for their own institutional branding. In the context where democracy is undermined, civic/citizenship education is depoliticised.
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title_short Educating for citizenship in a fragile democracy: interrogating civic agenda in Thai higher education
title_full Educating for citizenship in a fragile democracy: interrogating civic agenda in Thai higher education
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