Abstract:
The thesis utilizes Antonio Gramscis concept of hegemony for investigating the contents of the two secondary schools textbooks in Bangkok, Thailand. As a written media, the textbooks with a content of socio-cultural and religious subjects were selected to be a focus of this study and analyzed through three aspects, namely, consent, war of position, historic bloc of the hegemony. Including in the study was an interview with the teachers who used the textbooks expecting that they were patterns of relations between a selective bias of teaching and the hegemonic power of the textbooks regardless of the outcome or effectiveness of the teaching. The study finds that the textbooks consist fully of praiseworthy contents relevant to the last long establishment of the Institute of Monarch as a major sacred identity of the Thai Nation State together with its sheer benevolent functions and indispensability to such an extent that all these became like a norm or a unison of commonsenses which did limit doubt, questions and criticism on the respected institute.