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Chamchoy, Paveena; Burford, James – Teaching in Higher Education, 2021
University initiation rituals have long been a source of international concern. However, few English language accounts about such rituals in Southeast Asia are available, and fewer still consider the roles that teaching staff might play. This article investigates a "rab nong" ceremony in Thailand, arguing that initiation rituals have…
Descriptors: Teacher Participation, Ceremonies, Foreign Countries, College Freshmen
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Grubbs, Samuel J. – Asia Pacific Journal of Education, 2013
Recently there have been several sensational reports of serious consequences of freshmen initiation rites at Thai universities. The purpose of this study was to investigate Thai freshmen students' perceptions of the faculty initiation process. For this study, roughly 1,000 freshmen students took a pre-test during the first week of their initiation…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Freshmen, Student Attitudes, Pretests Posttests