รัฐไทยกับการกล่อมเกลาทางการเมืองผ่านแบบเรียนในช่วง พ.ศ. 2475-2487 / ปวีณา วังมี = Thai state and political socialization through textbooks, 1932-1944 / Paweena Wangmee
Focuses on the post-1932 revolution political elite's efforts to customize the educational curriculum and textbooks in line with the new political regime during the period 1932-1944. Political socialization through textbooks was significant to the politics and administration of the post-1932 period in that it conveyed to the country's youth the principles and ideals of the new regime. Students were thus taught to be aware of their duties as good citizens within constitutional system, and to understand and have faith in that system of government. The contents of the curriculum and textbooks varied according to the political and social contexts, and according to the ideas of different political leaders in the 1932-1944 period. During the period prior to the promulgation of the 1932 constitution, between June and December 1932, the contents of the textbooks only briefly explained the new political system. But from 1933 till 1934 the explanations became clearer, besed on the contents of the constitution. Following the year 1935, when the younger members of the People's Party, from both its civilian and military wings, assumed a larger role in ruling the country, new curricula for primary and secondary level education were initiated in 1937. The new textbooks were in line with the principles of the new political elite, concentrating on trying to instil patriotism, militarism, and the upholding of the constitution. Between 1938 and 1944, the government of Field Marshal P. Pibulsonggram added the issue of nation-building, one of its main policies, to the process of political socialization through texthbooks.
