Abstract:
This studies aim to study the commodification process of education in Chulalongkorn University, which reflected in many ways; the development, the stabilization and also the spread of the education under these terms of condition; the society, the economy and the change of Thai political condition. Moreover, it also concentrated on the patterns and the ways of the education management in order to be stabilized of Chulalongkorn University in the current state that the education is nowadays becoming a kind of the commodity in marketing system, which based on the historical analysis to point out this commodification process. The education is a kind of the commodity because of the influence of the Capitalism. The result is that the education is transformed to be the tradable commodity, which is the educational commodity and its profit play an important role for the provider. The educational commodity is produced for many purposes; trading, selling, or even hiring in the term of the educational service, which there will be a provider or a trader, that respond for proceeding of trading between the educational commodity and course fees, the provider or the trader in this state is Chulalongkorn University, which create and produce many special education programs. According to the study found that nowadays the education serve in almost special course of Chulalongkorn University is practically the commodity. There are students or buyers, who want to continue the study and there are also universities or educational service providers, which cause the marketing system. Providers set the course fees or the price by considering to the market mechanism and they also reproduce those special programs by using the power of the production or the technology, that is why all courses have the same standard, even though they are different curriculums. The reason above cause the mass product, which is the production of many special education programs such as, evening courses, weekend courses in order to produce many education courses as much as they can at the limited time and providers motivate customer to study by using a publicity to create a good image, which cause the Capital Accumulation in order to enlarge their business or enlarge their special education programs, which will cause more profit, but at the same time, there is some exceptions for some special education programs, that can not sell, can not reproduce for the Capital Accumulation and also can not be the commodity, but nevertheless Chulalongkorn University is still producing in order to pass on the knowledge.