Wisdom, Knowledge, and the Postcolonial University in Thailand

• Main Author: Ma Rhea, Zane (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
• Series: Postcolonial Studies in Education
• Subjects: Education.; Philosophy and social sciences.; School management and organization.; School administration.; Educational sociology.; Higher education.; Education > Philosophy.; Social sciences.; Education and sociology.; Sociology, Educational.; Sociology of Education.; Higher Education.; Educational Philosophy.; Philosophy of Education.; Administration, Organization and Leadership.; Social Sciences, general.
• Physical Description: XVII, 266 p. 10 illus. in color. online resource.
• ISBN: 9781137376947

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.