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  • Title: Thailand [Population education in countries of the region].
    Author: Vorapipatana K.
    Journal: Bull Unesco Reg Off Educ Asia Pac; 1982 Jun; (23):159-70. PubMed ID: 12265650.
    Abstract:
    In mid-1979 Thailand had a population estimated at 46,142,000, growing at a rate of 2.3%/year. Although Thailand had a pronatalist population policy in the past, government policy now emphasizes programs designed to decrease the birthrate. The Ministry of Education established the National Executive Committee on Population Education (NECPE) in 1974 to serve as the highest policymaking body in population education. The population education program is designed to enable Thai citizens to confront problems caused by the interrelationship between population size, quality of life, and amount and distribution of resources as they affect the individual, the family, the community, and the nation, and to make rational choices pertaining to population and family planning. Objectives of the population education program include institutionalizing population education in all education programs, coordinating population programs in and outside the population sphere, strengthening agencies working in population education, and providing high quality educational materials. A new curriculum developed by the Ministry of Education and gradually implemented beginning in 1978 was designed to be life-centered and process-centered, and to move away from academic and teacher-oriented methods. The Thai population education program strives for integration in all subject areas, while adapting to characteristics of the local communities and to the strengths and weaknesses of students. Population education materials planned by the national program include supplementary readers for the elementary and secondary levels and teachers' manuals for elementary schools. Preservice training is provided by the universities and teacher training colleges, while inservice training is provided through intensive training programs. The Mahidol University Population Education Program has conducted research activities including surveys to assess the need for and attitudes toward population education among various categories of individuals and analysis of textbooks to determine population content already included. The Ministry of Education has prepared case studies on the development of out-of-school population education and the coordination of educational and population policies. Population education is included in functional literacy and information dissemination programs of the Department of Non-Formal Education of the Ministry of Education. Various other agencies also conduct population education activities.
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