Dear All, It's been two weeks since I last wrote with many happening at Fulbright, universities, and Thailand, of course!
I'd like to
share with you the following ka:
1. When
you're asked about your ideas what is needed for collaboration to enhance
student learning, what will be your key issue for discussion ka, collaboration
or student learning?
I was at an
international conference when we were asked to do some group discussion on the
above question. Right away, the group discussed student learning and it
was so fun to see how many ideas were given ka. Some of them were:
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Meaningful learning needs to be from semi-structured socialization and
exchanges at majors/departmental levels. Some grants required diverse
groups of students to maximize diversity.
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Student engagement was stressed to involve them in decision making processes,
to know gen M for their different needs and requirements, and to encourage
them to teach their peers.
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Teachers offer concepts as basics for students to do their own
independent studies via ICT.
2. I attended
a policy dialogue session, which discussed how to promote research
collaboration. Thai universities have many foreign partners and if
they seriously partner within our country, it could be so helpful for
our own learning and for synergy to cooperate with others, especially our
neighbors.
It has again
proved to be true that one full day meeting doesn’t really work when the
afternoon is set aside to be a policy level meeting as a handful of
invited guests stayed on for the session.
3. I enjoyed reading ‘เมื่อโลกไม่ได้หมุนรอบอเมริกา--The Post American World’ by Fareed
Zakaria. What I think
we could learn is how the US has become advantageous….being ‘The Land of the
Free’, the private sector has lesser business restrictions from the
Government. Its diversity with immigrants has turned to be highly
positive, socially and culturally. Each State has its own local management
authority as well.
It could sound simple
but when thinking of Thailand, many things popped up on my mind, mainly about
the quality of our education and people to become more international to successfully
mix and work in multicultural environments.
It’s a very good book I’d
recommend if you haven’t read it ka.
4. For UNDP’s
Thailand Human Development Report 2014, when comparing the 8 component
indices (health, education, employment, income, family and community life,
participation, transport and communication, and housing and living environment;
education is the least developed aspect.
Lots of
challenges in thinking and working for our education circle ka!
Have a nice
week ka.
