Thailand Music education

ABSTRACT                          This document is a qualitative research to investigate the marginalization of the Music subject in Thai basic education curriculum and to identify the cause of its deprivation of acknowledgement or acceptance in Thai basic education curriculum. The research is aimed to: 1) investigate the process of the origin and existence of Thai basic education curriculum, 2) investigate the process of the marginalization of Music subject in Thai basic education curriculum, and 3) investigate the countering methods of artists, well-known Music scholars who are involved in Thai basic education curriculum. The researcher applied 2 qualitative methods as follows: 1) Documentary research   2) One-on one   in-depth interviews of which the informants were primarily selected to fit the research’s objectives   (Purposeful Sampling), ...