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August 14, 2026Social Sciences & Humanities OpenOpen Access

Reconfiguring initial teacher education accreditation in Thailand: Policy transfer, tensions, and contextual adaptation

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DKDhirapat KulophasPAPanya Akkaraputtapong

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Overview

Comparative policy analysis reveals key tensions between regulatory control and institutional flexibility in teacher education accreditation, highlighting the necessity of contextual adaptation.

Key Points

  • To evaluate the initial teacher education accreditation system in Thailand and analyze how international accreditation models are adapted within local institutional contexts.
  • Applied policy transfer theory to conduct a comparative analysis of initial teacher education accreditation across Thailand, Japan, South Korea, Ireland, the Netherlands, and Australia.
  • Gathered qualitative data using policy document analysis and an expert-connoisseurship seminar.
  • Demonstrated structural alignment between Thailand and international systems alongside marked disparities in evidence-informed decision-making, transparency, and outcome-oriented evaluation.
  • Identified key operational tensions between top-down regulatory control and institutional flexibility, complicated by local feasibility and capacity constraints.

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Kulophas et al. (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a7ec6c6b70b84ec8b912e08https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssaho.2026.103425
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