Teacher Education: Special Focus on Area-based Teacher Attributes in New Rajabhat University Cluster in The Northeast of Thailand

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Teacher training has been one of basic missions of higher educational institutions in most countries along with the invention of educational institutions. In Thailand, the first Rajabhat university, formerly called a teacher training school, was established over a hundred years ago. At present, there are 38  Rajabhat universities throughout Thailand, although more missions have been assigned, but teacher training is still the main duty of these universities.  Recently, a new approach on teacher training has been adopted and assigned to a new Rajabhat university cluster, which includes Si Sa Ket, Roi-Et, and Chaiyaphum Rajabhat University, aiming to provide area-based preservice teacher training for local educational institutions. As both authors are senior lecturers at one of the new Rajabhat university cluster, we conducted a research on the issue and this article is the finding of literature review. The objective of this article is to share important results, synthesis and analysis of the the findings, and implication of the results. The article covers the introduction,  area-based education and management, teacher attributes related to area-based education, and finally conclusion and  implication of the findings.