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OEC to Design Ethics and Morality Curricula for Thai Children

(04/04/2013)


The Office of the Education Council (OEC), with cooperation of the Office of the National Anti-Corruption Commission (NACC), recently organized a seminar on designing curricula for teaching ethics and morality to suppress corruption in Thai children and mobilizing anti-corruption strategies through the use of an educational mechanism. This seminar was chaired by the Chairperson of NACC, Mr. Panthep Klanarongran.

According to Mr. Panthep, education plays a key role against corruption, so curricula reform should be done carefully with brainstorming by qualified academics and learning from the work done in foreign countries. The campaign entitled, "Growing-Up without Cheating", is a successful project on anti-corruption which needs to be used in conjunction with the traditional Thai culture of respecting adults and expressing gratitude to them as well as life-long education. The NACC is emphasizing the training of ethics and morality via various media and the results from the seminar will be used to improve the characters of Thai children and youths in the future.

The Secretary General of OEC, Dr. Sasithara Pichaichannarong, said that the OEC and the NACC realized the importance of cooperation on anti-corruption education and had formulated an agreement on the issue. Initially, the sub-committee for mobilizing anti-corruption campaigns will promote education as a mechanism to suppress corruption. This seminar was one of the national gatherings which enabled ideas from concerned agencies on developing a curriculum about ethics and morality to protect children against corruption.

The qualified academic of NACC, Dr. U-this Khaothien, said that a corruption survey in 2011 indicated that Thailand was ranked 80th out of 183 countries worldwide and 11th in Asia. Therefore, the NACC had formulated four strategies for the prevention and suppression of corruption from 2008 to 2012. The first strategy concerned raising anti-corruption awareness in people of all sectors. The second one was to unite people power to suppress corruption. The third was to strengthen organizations that work on anti-corruption. The fourth strategy was to create anti-corruption professionals. It is a good occasion that the Ministry of Education and NACC made the agreement for using education as the key solution to corruption problem because nowadays Thai society views corruption as the norm.

Source: Ban Muang Newspaper

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