Policy analysis instruction in Thailand

Type:

Book Chapter

Author:

Piyakorn Whangmahaporn

Published:

2023

Publisher:

Policy Press

This chapter examines the landscape of educational policy courses provided across recent programmes by major universities throughout the country, considering mainly the conventional perspective. It shows how public policy has been a popular subject for more than three decades in Thailand. It elaborates that most of the policy analysis education is in public administration programmes in bachelor’s and master’s degree courses. The main approaches of policy analysis instruction are either descriptive or prescriptive. Teaching public policy as an academic course can be traced back to when public administration majors and programmes in established universities started to introduce new subjects and aimed to create graduates who can work at the policy levels. Since then, public policy has become a core pedagogical element of public administration education and developed its trajectory under the shadow of public administration. For the last decade, specific standards have been issued to control the quality of the instruction of public administration with no specific attention to public policy.

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