JEAI CELS stimulates PhD students by Organising in-house activities

6th November 2010

First and third-year PhD students in HRD stream met with 4th-year PhD student, Supat Chupradit.
Supat recently spent one month in Europe and wanted to share his experience. This was also the opportunity to motivate those younger students to use the ressources and facilites available at CELS.
All of this will be useful for them to develop and finish their concept paper, an important step before preparing the PhD dissertation proposal.
Supat noticed that in Europe PhD students were more willing to share knowledge between themselves and other scholars. They do not hesitate to spend time talking about their dissertation, and learning from each other. This is then very useful to nurture and fulfill their dissertation.
This workshop was a starting point and future workshops have been scheduled.

E-journal / Faculty of Education

The Journal of the Faculty of Education in which articles from CELS-affiliated researchers were published (see previous post) is now available online , in PDF format.

Please click here for a free download.

CELS Activities - update - 3

CELS Activities - update - 2

On September 6^th-10th, Ms. Ratana, a PhD candidate from Columbia University, USA visited the CELS and interviewed Dr.Phasina Tangchuang and Dr Alain Mounier as editors and authors of the book “Education and Knowledge in Thailand: The Quality Controversy”.

On September 18^th, Dr.Alain Mounier, CELS expert, delivered his comments regarding PhD research proposals.

On September 21^st-24^th, Drs.Alain Mounier and Phasina Tangchuang visited the National University of Laos and Udon Thani Rajabhat University to plan future activities.

On September 27th, Mr.Ben Kittikhun, PhD candidate and CELS researcher, was invited to present his paper at the ASAIHL Conference, held in Bangkok.

CELS Activities - update - 1

From 23rd August to 27th September 2010, Supat Chupradit, PhD candidate and CELS researcher, expanded his experience by a research trip to Europe.

Supat presented a scientific paper at the 5th EARLI SIG 14 Conference Learning and Professional Development Conference. This event was centred around the Diversity in Vocational and Professional Education and Training. It was organized by the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, in Germany. He seized this opportunity to explore the well-known library of Heidelberg University, in Germany.

In France, he met Dr Xavier Oudin at his laboratory DIAL in Paris, and visited the library of Sorbonne University, Paris.

Before heading back to Thailand, Supat met several researchers and PhD candidates at Adapt centre, hosted by Bergamo University, in Italy.

Presentation at Earli SIG Conference (Germany)

From 25th to 27th August 2010, the European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction (EARLI) held a conference at the University of Munich in Germany.

More details on the conference.


This conference was an opportunity for researchers and practitioners to discuss current issues centered around the overall topic: Diversity in Vocational and Professional Education and Training.


Supat Chupradit from CELS made a poster presentation on the current situation of vocational and cooperative education in Thailand.

CELS new office

The CELS has moved to a new office located at the 4th Floor of Building 4 of the Faculty of Education.

Do not hesitate to come and visit us!