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Supamonta Supanan, Bangkok University, ThailandSasinan Pattana, Bangkok University, Thailand
Parinya Chumrum, Bangkok University, Thailand
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Education is the heart of national development worldwide. Over the past several years, Thai teen series have portrayed education’s connections to various social dimensions. The phenomenon that brought a huge change was the emergence of the Hormones (Pumseenil & Viravan, 2013–2015) series which presented the problems of high school teenagers at school and criticized the Thai education system. That year was also a time of calling for national reform in a number of different dimensions. The objective of this study was to analyze the Thai education system and learning environment as portrayed in eight Thai series, i.e., Hormones (Pumseenil & Viravan, 2013–2015), ThirTEENTerrors (Kaewchart, 2014–2015), The Gifted (Panichraksapong, 2018), Blacklist (Danuwong, 2019), The Underclass (Patthanakumjon, 2020), Bad Genius: The Series (Maligool & Pongsittisak, 2020), Girl From Nowhere (Chitrakorn & Uekrongtham, 2018–2021), and Home School (Panichraksapong, 2023). The concepts of ideology and representation were used to analyze the educational ideology, education system, learning environment, and related problems. The major findings revealed that these series communicated the set of ideology and representation of education among the younger generations who crave freedom in learning versus the mindset and ideology of the traditional conservative education system. These series also served as a space to question the government and related agencies regarding the ways in which they should provide education management and how they should create learning environments in the future for younger generations in the current global situation with rapid change.
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Conference: ACCS2025Stream: Media Studies
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Supanan S., Pattana S., & Chumrum P. (2025) The Analysis of Ideology, Representation of the Thai Education System, and Learning Environment as Portrayed in Thai Teen Series ISSN: 2187-4751 – The Asian Conference on Cultural Studies 2025: Official Conference Proceedings (pp. 189-202) https://doi.org/10.22492/issn.2187-4751.2025.16
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