Corpus-driven discourse analysis of agency in education policy

Name: Natakorn Satienchayakorn

keyword: Humanization

; Modern education

; Education policy

; Critical thinking

; Corpus linguistics

Abstract: Modern education is an ideal education to humanize people by practicing students to have freedom to speak, to act, to do for themselves, and to see differences in others such as gender, race, sex, class, etc. The important skill for modern education is critical thinking and its necessary elements are agencies and voices. Although there have been several efforts to increase Thai students’ critical thinking skills, their constructions of social and academic arguments are still weak. In addition, while these efforts mainly focus on students’ critical thinking skill, little has been done on other education stakeholders such as education institutions, schools, and teachers which potentially provide rooms for teachers and students to be critical. In this study, I investigated ideological indexation of education stakeholders in Thai educational policy, Ministry of Education, Thailand, compared to global education policy from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) which is an intergovernmental organization working with governments across the world. In Thai and global education polices, I utilized the corpus linguistic frequency function to locate the most possible stakeholders and applied framework of syntactic corpus analysis for agency identification (FO-SCAAI) to lexically elicit their agencies and voices which are important elements in modern education. The findings reveals understanding of the representation of varying degrees of education stakeholders’ agencies in this important educational policy. The implications of the study will lead to realize that education stakeholders lack agencies and voices which are force, ability or power to make decisions or changes. After realizing their lack of agency, involved parties, I hope, they will make changes by providing more agencies to education stakeholders through modern education in Thai education policy

Thammasat University. Thammasat University Library

Address: BANGKOK

Email: preserv@tu.ac.th

Name: Passapong Sripicharn

Role: advisor

Name: Pattamawan Jimarkon

Role: co-advisor

Created: 2022

Modified: 2023-07-19

Issued: 2023-07-19

วิทยานิพนธ์/Thesis

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DOI: 10.14457/TU.the.2022.194

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DegreeName: Doctor of Philosophy

Level: Doctoral Degree

Descipline: English Language Studies

Grantor: Thammasat University

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