Education innovation in Thailand
Most people don't think much of education in Thailand. It seems that people have not yet grown out of the stage of repeating prescribed teaching material in class and those who do not have 'limitations' are soon able to obtain at least a bachelor's degree, at the presentation of which the dressing up and festivities are more likely to take place. suggest a promotion, where only the paranymphs are missing.
Subsequently, many end up in the hospitality industry, at a 7-Eleven, in a factory, or in the entertainment industry. In the many education-oriented performance lists, Thailand usually treads water in the lower regions, while the percentage of GDP that is spent on education is very high.
The level is deplorable, especially in the field of the exact sciences. YouTube is teeming with interesting lectures and recordings of lectures from India and China, for example, while Thailand is just as invisible as Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam, from which countries one should now be able to distinguish oneself more visibly.
The enormous language problem (nearly the entire scientific world uses English) is undoubtedly partly to blame for this, but should not be argued for eternity.
To my delight I recently discovered a video from Al Jazeera, which actually focuses on innovative teaching methods in Thailand. It is a very nice film, with beautiful images in addition to the necessary information, and perhaps you also have to smile when you see the young researchers in immaculate school uniform conducting field research on a rice plantation.
Video: Inspiring Science: Building Thailand's Future – Rebel Education
Watch the video here:
[embedyt] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TiSng31PSUo[/embedyt]
To be honest, I don't quite understand all the criticism of Thai education. In fact, I can safely say that Thai education is one of the best in the world, it can hardly be otherwise, because my wife only had 3 years of primary school , and yet she knows everything better.
Unfortunately, Thailand has outgrown the classic repetition of teaching material.
If something has killed education in the Netherlands, it is the starting point, that your brain does not need to be trained and does not need to be provided with a dose of basic knowledge, because you can look everything up on the internet.
Without that basic knowledge you don't even know what to look up on the internet.
You also can't learn to count if you can't recite the ten times tables, if someone wakes you up in the middle of the night, or if you can add a number of numbers off the top of your head.
The reason that the children in Thailand do not learn anything at school is that the teachers are not involved enough with education.
The students have an enormous amount of days off and there is also a lot of cancellation of lessons for sports, meetings, and the many, many other activities.
Furthermore, the pupils in my village at the primary school are taught in English by a teacher who does not speak English himself.
So that works out nicely.
Another example of the lack of knowledge is that the students do not know English words at all.
Both morning and evening the children say Good Morning to me.
Which proves they have no idea what morning means.
Grammar is taught in secondary school, but I have noticed that the students do not know a word from the corresponding lessons.
Then it is not surprising that the command of English is so bad.
Like math, knowing the tables by heart means; Learning a language means learning words.
The existence of online dictionaries doesn't mean you shouldn't have those words stuck in your head.
I completely agree with you on that. The stamping is something you will never forget. Both in math and in conjugation.
All that free education might be good for certain subjects, where self-thinking can be useful, but it really isn't for all classes
Teachers in Thailand know all too well what the problem is. But they are in a bind that they have to prepare the students for the exams. That is different from teaching them how to converse better in a language. Actually, mashing words would fit ideally into repeating what the teacher says. But they have to demonstrate in an exam that they understand grammar, so they have to tick verbs and so on on a sheet.
Add to that the fact that English has a completely different structure than Thai and you realize that they also have a hard time. How often they forget to apply past tense in a chat, always be alert.
Motivation? Well, government schools don't pay very well, and the mandatory, precise curriculum doesn't motivate teachers to be creative either.
Level of teachers? oh, here too it is the case that the people who can do a subject do the subject, and the ones that cannot, explain it in front of the class. will be no different.
Here is an extensive story. Keep in mind that it was written by a teacher, they always know better. :
https://www.stickmanbangkok.com/teaching-english-in-bangkok/
Measuring is knowing. If decades of research in education and student performance measurements show that Dutch education is among the top and Thai education consistently ends up in the bottom regions, I think it says enough. Scientifically proven with factual research. The statement that Dutch education has been destroyed is just as misleading as saying that it used to be better; personal sentiment and not substantiated by reality.
Education in Thailand is pathetic. Proper education is only provided in a private school. Teachers at state schools are usually not motivated. How could it be otherwise when you see how much they earn. Pegagogic approach is hard to find. The students copy. Logical thinking is unknown to them. Their university degrees are of a low level. You can't compare them to those in Europe. Let a Thai lady look for work in Belgium, for example. Yes, cleaning somewhere or babysitting. Thailand a developing country? How much longer actually? The dumber the crowd is, the fewer questions. Life is to the simple minded. They'll follow suit.
well,
Crafting (freuben) at school is incredible, I have one (15) in the 3rd grade of secondary education and one (16) in the first class of the “high school” even who still comes home with craft assignments as homework. And add up all those days off. next week; 2 months and in October also a month. Over a week at Christmas, "Watt" days, "King" days, "study" days, sports days, etc.
Ok, but today a test, tomorrow off, Wednesday a test, Thursday off, Friday a test. I can't remember anything like that from the Netherlands.
But I think they also understand that education is the cornerstone of society.
Greetings Nico from Lak-Si (still dry now)
Where did I ever hear the statement again: “In Thailand you will find them in every 7-eleven, the bachelor degrees, buy one get two” … just kidding ….
Education in general is also hard to find in Europe. Recently with my nephew and niece, 14 and 12 years old, I was working on some things, which involved some light calculations. I still calculate by heart, and in a few seconds I was further with my story while those 2 looked at me, how does he know the outcome without a calculator app, mobile phone tablet thing? At one point I saw those two arguing on their cell phone about something. Were they trying to copy my light calculation and they couldn't even do it? And beware that they get a 2 or even a 9 at school. Thailand, on the other hand, needs to make their education more practically oriented so that they can think of everything they experience on a daily basis. We started learning tables at the age of 10, dividing and multiplying, and solving those riddles. You do that by reading and writing in a notebook with your own fingers. Learning languages by learning and remembering a lot. I wonder if I can still learn Thai, but with 5 languages in Europe I won't get anywhere in Thailand.
I'm glad I went to secondary school and also finished it. The result is that I can express myself perfectly in three foreign languages, write my own name without mistakes, master the tables and can also point out on the globe where the Netherlands is located, etc. It was a great base!
I wonder what they'll say then. Factual knowledge is totally lacking in Thailand. And the old-fashioned bastards here in the Netherlands had just that. 1600: Battle of Nieuwpoort. As long as your uniform fits well and you show respect for the flag, you will receive a beautiful diploma in Thailand during an impressive ceremony.
Here in Cambodia, all children shout: “Hello what is your name”, when I cycle past. They think this is the average greeting. What a relief when I found out about this. To have to tell them how hot you are getting bored a few hundred times a day….
.
That is similar here (Hat Yai).
Here ask “what is your name?”, then “where are you from?” Then they run off, afraid that there will be questions from me, which they will not be able to answer.
Or, parents who nudge their child and tell them to say "Hello." It remains funny.
It is easy to explain, the rich can go to good private schools and even study abroad and for the common people the rule is that you keep them stupid we keep them poor. Imagine that everyone gets or can follow good education, then they want to earn more and the rich no longer have cheap workers. Then we as farang also have to pay more for everything then we can at least start complaining about it here on Thailandblog. Greetings from prospective resident of BKK