Title: Gaining insights from the bottom-up approach for teacher training needs: case study for school disengagement

Authors: Kongkiti Phusavat; Rapee Kanchana; Adhi Kusumastuti; Dušan Lesjak; Jukka Majava

Addresses: Kasetsart University, Bangkok, Thailand ' Rajamangala University of Technology Thanyaburi, Pathum Thani, Thailand ' Universitas Negeri Semarang, Pegon, Central Java, Indonesia ' International School for Business and Social Studies, Calje, Slovenia ' Oulu University, Oulu, Finland

Abstract: The pilot project, jointly conducted by a foreign business community and schools, illustrates a bottom-up approach in determining in-service teacher training for school disengagement. The development of in-service teacher training is traditionally based on the experts and senior administrators without much input from ordinary teachers or this top-down approach. Since dealing with school disengagement has been viewed as the relationship between a teacher and a student, the bottom-up approach should be examined. A group of 147 teachers from five schools participated in the pilot project (part of a foreign business community's involvement with education). The bottom-up approach provides coherent findings between school problems and training needs and gives consistent findings with both previous studies and the opinions of business experts. Working directly with teachers has been part of a strategy of the foreign business community when attempting to improve the quality of education in Thailand.

Keywords: planning; strategy; in-service teacher training; bottom-up approach; school disengagement; Thailand.

DOI: 10.1504/IJMIE.2024.138251

International Journal of Management in Education, 2024 Vol.18 No.3, pp.260 - 276

Received: 08 Sep 2023
Accepted: 11 Dec 2023
Published online: 30 Apr 2024 *

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