x-pat
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Heute morgen wurde ich auf einen aufschlussreichen Artikel aufmerksam gemacht, der sich mit dem Thema "Plagiate" im Erziehungsbereich beschäftigt und dabei auch einige andere Probleme in diesem Bereich beleuchtet und teils durch Anekdoten illustriert:
Copy, Paste, Enter Thailand's Plagiarism Problem
Ist leider in nur in Englisch verfügbar, aber ich möchte es euch trotzdem nicht vorenthalten.
Copy, Paste, Enter Thailand's Plagiarism Problem
Ist leider in nur in Englisch verfügbar, aber ich möchte es euch trotzdem nicht vorenthalten.
Chiang Mai Citylife said:“Cheating and copying is a daily occurrence in Thai schools,” one teacher, we’ll call him Frank, told me. A long-term British expat, Frank has taught at both private international institutions and Thai government schools here in Chiang Mai, and says he can’t distinguish much of a difference between the two when it comes to rates of plagiarism.
He recalls one incident that occurred a few years ago at a prominent international school in Chiang Mai. A student was using a phone to cheat during an exam, so Frank confiscated the student’s phone. The student responded by getting physical with Frank, yelling at him to give back the phone and slamming a door in his face.
“Then when I threw the student out of the class and didn’t allow him to come back in to any of my lessons, the administration wouldn’t back me up and told me I had to teach him as his parents paid for the school,” recalls Frank, adding that the student ended up avoiding any punishment whatsoever for both the cheating and the attempt to start a fight.
Cheers, X-patChiang Mai Citylife said:“There’s a culture of plagiarism in Thailand – just look at the Night Bazaar,” says Dr. Deakin. “Copying is bound in with Thai culture and university culture is a micro-representation of that.”
Thailand is what sociologists would call a “communal culture,” characterised by high degrees of both sociability and solidarity. Unlike in the west, where individualism is prized above all else, here community is valued over personal achievement. And while this can often be a good thing in many ways, it also carries with it the possibility of sweeping negative behaviour from fellow community members, and leaders in particular, under the rug.
“You could argue that plagiarism is a form of corruption – academic corruption,” Dr. Deakin says. “If a culture decides to accept corruption, as Thailand does daily when it comes to the government, it’s going to trickle down to universities and colleges. Bottom line: if it’s okay to do it at the macro level than why not at the micro level?”
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