タイ北部少数民族における教育機会の保障にかんする民族文化の役割

Abstract

The Thai government carried out an education opportunity expansion policy to establish the first a half of secondary education course in elementary schools in the '90s. It had an effective result, the quantitative expansion, but it became clear in regard to the equality of the result that there is a limit to learning. Moreover, there is the attendance percentage difference at the now local interval that succeeded in the quantitative expansion. For the cause of this difference, the lowness of the school attendance percentage of the indigenous Thai mountain people is discussed. In later years, the Thai government has began to recognize the indigenous Thai mountain people as Thai citizens and has undertaken policies to build an elementary school in a mountain village to carry out education for the Thai residents there. I am basing this report on a preceding study about the educational issues of the indigenous Thai mountain people and am intended to consider a necessary method to guarantee educational opportunities.