Internationalizing Higher Education in Thailand
Internationalizing Higher Education in Thailand
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泰国高等教育国际化
DOI：
10.1177/1028315313478193
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发表时间：
2013
影响因子：
2.4
通讯作者：
Pad Lavankura
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作者：
Pad Lavankura
每个国家对国际化的反应不同，对这一概念有不同的解释。自1990年以来，泰国已将高等教育国际化纳入其计划。本文旨在探讨政府和泰国大学走向国际化目标的主要动机。讨论的重点是泰国的所谓"国际方案"。使用英语作为教学媒介，这些“国际课程”已在公立和私立大学广泛提供。这些方案说明了高等教育在教学功能方面的国际化。一般来说，政府的理由涉及全球经济趋势和国内社会经济力量。在机构层面，利益相关者的需求，需要大学产生费用收入，并从国内背景下得出的具体原因被证明是国际方案的主要驱动力。目前对泰国高等教育国际化努力的解释表明，只为特定人口群体服务的课程数量有所增长。国际化可能对高等教育系统作出的重大贡献没有得到保证。
Each country responds to internationalization differently and offers various interpretations of the concept. Thailand has incorporated the internationalization of higher education into its plans since 1990. This article aims to discuss the primary motivations of the government and of Thai universities in moving toward the goal of internationalization. The discussion focuses on so-called “international programs” in Thailand. Using English as the medium of instruction, these “international programs” have been widely offered in both public and private universities. The programs illustrate the internationalization of higher education in terms of its teaching function. Generally, government rationales involve both global economic trends and domestic socioeconomic forces. At the institutional level, stakeholders’ demands, needs of universities to generate fee income, and specific reasons drawn from domestic context were shown to be the main drivers of the international programs. Current interpretations of the efforts to internationalize higher education in Thailand show a quantitative growth in programs that only serve particular demographic groups. The substantial contributions that internationalization may offer to the higher education system have not been guaranteed.