This research explored information on basic education policy for the ethnic groups in the Thai highland and border areas, identified factors that influence the education policy for ethnic groups, and provided a mechanism and process of basic education for ethnic groups in the Thai highlands and border areas. | Kasetsart Journal of Social Sciences 38 2017 97e104 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Kasetsart Journal of Social Sciences journal homepage http locate kjss Management of basic education for ethnic groups in highland and border regions of Thailand Phathombut Keawsomnuk Faculty of Social Science and Humanities Mahidol University Nakhon Pathom 73170 Thailand a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t Article history This research 1 explored information on basic education policy for the ethnic groups in Received 13 September 2016 the Thai highland and border areas 2 identified factors that influence the education policy Received in revised form 22 November 2016 for ethnic groups and 3 provided a mechanism and process of basic education for ethnic Accepted 23 November 2016 groups in the Thai highlands and border areas. The research was conducted by studying Available online 25 April 2017 three variables ethnic group societies educational management for ethnic groups and the formulation of educational policy for ethnic groups. This was a mixed method study. Keywords The research findings revealed that the actors for advocacy policy in basic education for basic education ethnic groups consist of 1 the primary education service area 2 community 3 NGOs 4 ethnic group education scholars and 5 schools. This study indicated that the provision of basic education policy Thai ethnic group for ethnic groups must consist of knowledge from communities such as ethnic life styles integrated in the curriculum and a special education mechanism and process for Thai ethnic groups including facilitation of ethnic group participation in the abovementioned actors by various means. 2017 Kasetsart University. Publishing services by Elsevier . This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license http licenses by-nc-nd . Introduction The management of education for ethnic groups may be implemented into an area where there is a mixed culture .
