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Makale Özeti:
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Education and political leaders worldwide are increasingly placing emphasis on developing
scientific literacy. This also is the case in Thailand with science education influenced
by educational reform in 1999, in which the goals of science education are shaped by the
notion of scientific literacy. Thai science education emphasizes the scientific knowledge,
the nature of science, and the relationship between science technology and society. Although
the school science curriculum features scientific literacy, Thai science education
research, articles, national tests, and teaching and learning emphasize scientific achievement
with little concern about science as a way of knowing. However, some attempts at
developing scientific literacy have been made recently. Some school science curricula and
teaching and learning has tried to organize science learning emphasizing the relationship
between science, technology and society based on the Thai context. Such cases seek to
develop students’ scientific literacy through local wisdom; specifically, King Bhumibol
Adulyadej’s philosophy of sufficiency economy, moral infusion, and the Buddhism way
of life. This paper considers interpretations of the term scientific literacy in Thailand, and
examines the implications of this for science education.
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