Vatcharin Hamratanaphon Thailand Educator Department of Non-Formal Education Ministry of Education

Biography

Vatcharin Hamratanaphon works as an educator at the Centre for Educational Technology (CET), Department of Non-Formal Education, Ministry of Education (Thailand). With a B.A. in English and Thai as her first degree, she received her M.Ed. in Non-Formal Education from the same university, Chulalongkorn University in Thailand. She graduated with a Ph.D. in Education from Monash University, Australia, in 1996. Her Ph.D. research topic was "Rural Women in Development and the Role of Non-formal Education in a Northern Thai Village".

Hamratanaphon's work experience started in 1981 at the Planning and Research Division of the Department of Non-Formal Education. She has gained experience in the planning of non-formal education projects/programmes and organizing pilot projects for the out-of-school population in the country, especially certain target groups like rural women, primary school-leavers who do not further their secondary level, Thai people residing along border areas, etc. Since 1988, she has shifted to work at CET and started to deal with distance education and production of radio/TV/video programmes to support non-formal, formal and informal education.

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