Education is the heart of national development worldwide. Over the past several years up until now, Thai teen series have portrayed education that connects to various social dimensions. The phenomenon that brought a huge change was the emergence of the “Hormones” series (2013), which represented problems of high school teenagers at school and criticized the Thai education system. That year was also the time of calling for national reform in different dimensions. The objective of this study was to analyze the Thai education system and learning environment as portrayed in 8 Thai series, i.e., Hormones (2013), ThirTEENTerrors (2014), The Gifted (2018), Blacklist (2019), The Underclass (2020), Bad Genius the Series (2020), Girl From Nowhere (2021), and Home School (2023). The concepts of ideology and representation were used to analyze 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 young generation who craved the freedom of learning versus the mindset and ideology of the traditional as well as conservative education system. Series also served as a space to question the government and involved agencies on how they should provide education management and how they should create learning in the future for the young generation in the global situation with rapid change.

Authors:
Supamonta Supanan, Bangkok University, Thailand
Sasinan Pattana, Bangkok University, Thailand
Parinya Chumrum, Bangkok University, Thailand

About the Presenter(s)
Supamonta Supanan is currently an instructor at the School of Communication Arts, Bangkok University.

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