Wisdom, Knowledge, and the Postcolonial University in Thailand
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
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Postcolonial Studies in Education
Postcolonial Studies in Education Series Editors Peter Mayo Department of Education Studies University of Malta Msida, Malta Antonia Darder Loyola Marymount University Los Angeles, California, USA Anne Hickling-Hudson Faculty of Education Queensland University of Technology Brisbane, Australia
Studies utilising the perspectives of postcolonial theory have become established and increasingly widespread in the last few decades. This series embraces and broadly employs the postcolonial approach. As a site of struggle, education has constituted a key vehicle for the ‘colonization of the mind’. The ‘post’ in postcolonialism is both temporal, in the sense of emphasizing the processes of decolonization, and analytical in the sense of probing and contesting the aftermath of colonialism and the imperialism which succeeded it, utilising materialist and discourse analysis. Postcolonial theory is particularly apt for exploring the implications of educational colonialism, decolonization, experimentation, revisioning, contradiction and ambiguity not only for the former colonies, but also for the former colonial powers. This series views education as an important vehicle for both the inculcation and unlearning of colonial ideologies. It complements the diversity that exists in postcolonial studies of political economy, literature, sociology and the interdisciplinary domain of cultural studies. Education is here being viewed in its broadest contexts, and is not confined to institutionalized learning. The aim of this series is to identify and help establish new areas of educational inquiry in postcolonial studies. More information about this series at http://www.springer.com/series/14536
Zane Ma Rhea
Wisdom, Knowledge, and the Postcolonial University in Thailand
Zane Ma Rhea Victoria, Australia
Postcolonial Studies in Education ISBN 978-1-137-38292-4 ISBN 978-1-137-37694-7 (eBook) DOI 10.1057/978-1-137-37694-7 Library of Congress Control Number: 2016957785 © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are solely and exclusively licensed by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. The publisher, the authors and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors g
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