Journal of MCU Buddhasothorn Review

Conscious: Tackling Corruption in Thai Society

Samrerng Ratchawang — Sun, 30 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0700

In the present, the corruption in Thailand is considered a chronic problem and become the more severe and complex problems and has wide-ranging impacts. Especially, the national security is one of the top problems that hinders the country's development in terms of economics, society and politics, because it happened in every sector in Thai society, and even it is the political sector, the government sector, especially local government organizations. They are often viewed outside of the society as organizations that facilitate on the corruption. To solve the corruption problem, the right methods must be used to help and enlarged to the people by creating citizenship consciousness or collaboratively participation to solve the problem with the masses of the people on all parts. There are many different theories, such as the theory of creating citizenship consciousness. With the principle of checking state power, it is a check on state power by organizations in several parts of the government, private, and civil society sectors. With the rule of law, a state is governed by controlled laws or under just laws, etc.

In this academic article, the author has presented guidelines for solving corruption problems in the two levels: the individual level by building people's immunity in political participation and creating awareness to integrate the Buddhist principles and promote the various concepts mentioned as above appeared. Mechanism for goodness resisting of the corruption would be built in Thai culture with the well-management system and the nation progressively development in every part of Thailand’s organizations.

Transitioning from Teaching to Instructional Coaching: A New Dimension of Learning in Digital Disruption

suthon wongdaeng — Sun, 30 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0700

Coaching is a tool that educators use to guide learners in the right direction. Coaches provide the guidance and use the powerful questioning to enable learners and utilize their own potential in learning through hands-on experience. Moreover, they construct knowledge themselves and can continuously develop. Therefore, the instructional coaching plays the significant role in developing learners to achieve success in learning goals and to effectively apply the learned learning skills on the learning and work in the future.

This article aims to present concepts related to the teaching and Instructional coaching, or similarities and differences between the Instructional coaching and the ordinary teaching, the benefits of the instructional coaching in the classroom, including the importance of transitioning from the ordinary teaching into the instructional coaching, besides, strategies for integrating the instructional coaching into the classroom and the challenging changes in implementing instructional coaching in the classroom were the significant factor in this point.

This studying through the documents, the textbooks, the academic articles, and the various researches revealed that the instructional coaching serves and supports the educational important technique as a supportive tool by inspiring learners to self-directed learning, fostering learners' cognitive processes for growth, developing high-level thinking skills, fostering self-confidence, self-guided learning discipline, and continuous self-improvement. Therefore, all of those which are the crucial characteristics in the Digital Disruption. Additionally, both of the instructors and learners have the opportunity to exchange and learn together through the instructional coaching process.

Leadership of School Administrators and Curriculum and Teaching Development

Nichapa Tapipat — Fri, 30 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0700

This academic article aims to study the leadership of school administrators and the development of curriculum and teaching. The leadership of educational institution administrators consists of the characteristics of school administrators, the behavior of school administrators, the situation of school administrators, the role of school administrators, and the emotional intelligence of school administrators.

Then they were interested in the leadership, because the success of educational institutions depends on the leadership of educational institution administrators and the context of the educational institution. And it is necessary to perform the duties consistent with the educational institution administrator position with quality. It depends on the changes and context of the educational institution. The role of educational institution administrators includes planners, group representatives, and academic leaders, including the relationships within the group and assessors.

In this study, it was concluded that the academic leaders of educational institution administrators are an important key-person in performing their duties to ensure the educational institutions to have quality and standards, consisting of: the educational institution curriculum development, the learning process development, the measurement, the evaluation, and transfer learning units.

Moreover, there are the research to improve the educational quality development, the innovative media, the educational technology, the learning resources, the educational supervision, the educational guidance, the quality assurance systems in an educational institutions Promoting academic knowledge to the community Coordinating cooperation in academic development with other educational institutions, the promoting and supporting academic work for some individuals, families, organizations, agencies, and other institutions providing the education.

In this regard, developing the curriculum and teaching of educational institutions is a necessary type and an important task in developing academic work to keep up with the times. Therefore, the leadership of school administrators and the development of curriculum and teaching is more important to organize the education that made of the quality, the educational standards and create the greatest benefit to educational institutions and the country.

Afterthoughts On the Walking On the Footpath

Anek Suwanbundit; Boonlert Yongphet — Sun, 30 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0700

This article aims to propose the afterthoughts on the idea behind the scenes about walking on the footpath, where is full of the currently disorder and a lot of confusion. People didn't know some path to walk on the left side or the right side. When they didn't know it, they were walking in the middle or they were going randomly. Thereby, it became obstruction on the footpath and on the traffic surface. The author introduced the concepts of historical, philosophical, and ergonomic dimensions that are reflecting the pedestrian culture and increasing the more influenced disorder culture. Then, we suggested the guidelines for the usages of footpaths for people on pedestrian traffic, because they have to obey the traffic rules and pedestrian etiquette. The knowledge in this article will be used as a guideline for the footpath builders and the social leaders within society to design and set the customs or the rules of walking on the footpath for tidiness and lead the well-order into a society with an appropriate level of order.

Social studies teaching system to achieve academic achievement

Phramaha Supharoek Siwankham — Sun, 30 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0700

The social studies teaching system to achieve academic achievement was the adoption of a systematic or organized some method for teaching and learning. This made it possible to efficiently manage and analyze the various details. This teaching system consists of three main parts: Input, Process, and Output. The Input may include the teaching resources such as textbooks, teaching materials, and student data. The Process refers to the teaching and learning steps that occur in the classroom and the product is the learning outcome.

The components of the teaching system consist of several subsystems, such as the teacher system that is responsible for lesson planning and evaluation. A system for students who receive information and follow the teachings. A teaching media system has a role in presenting information and stimulating learning and the system for selecting and using teaching media or learning resources that made the teaching and learning more effective.

In addition, there are other subunits that can work independently, but must work together to get the best results. The interaction between these smaller units is also important. If there is a change in any subunit, it will affect other subunits as well. Therefore, there must be coordination and an adjustment so that all subunits work harmoniously. The continuous planning and evaluation will help these social studies teaching system achieving its expected successful results.

The situation of Buddhist nuns in Sri Lanka

Phra Mahaphat Sahasukmankong; Montree Sirarojananan — Sun, 30 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0700

This academic article aims to study and review the issue of Bhikkhuni in Sri Lanka, spanning from the establishment of the Bhikkhuni Sangha to the present situation. Most Thai Buddhists were only aware of the current existence of Bhikkhuni ordination in Sri Lanka. However, the history of Buddhism in Sri Lanka includes the presence of the Bhikkhuni Sangha.

Unfortunately, foreign invasions, which did not support Buddhism, led to the disappearance of the Bhikkhu and Bhikkhuni Sangha. When Buddhism was reinstated, the Bhikkhuni Sangha was not revived because the Theravada Sangha that was established did not include a Bhikkhuni Sangha. The subsequent efforts were to revive the Bhikkhuni Sangha with support from certain sects of Bhikkhus. Although there were successful efforts to revive the Bhikkhuni Sangha, leading to the ordination of women from foreign countries, including Thailand, there has also been opposition to this action.

Additionally, the living conditions of Bhikkhunis in Sri Lanka are challenging, as they do not have all the rights and face conflicts with Bhikkhu sangha from different sects. Furthermore, the Sri Lankan government has not officially recognized the status of Bhikkhunis.

People’s political awareness affecting the election of bangkok council members, khlong Sam war district, Bangkok.

Samrerng Ratchawang — Sun, 30 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0700

This article aims to 1) study the level of the political awareness of the people who affected the exercise of rights to elect members of the Bangkok Council, 2) study the factors that affected the exercise of rights to elect members of the Bangkok Council, and 3) study the political perception of citizens to affects the voting rights to elect members of the Bangkok Metropolitan Council. This research was done by applying the principles of honesty and morality. This research’s method is the mixed method, consisting of quantitative research and the mixed method. A sample group of 399 people from voters in the Khlong Sam Wa area, Bangkok, totaling 180,507 people, and qualitative. There were 10 important informants or people. The research results were found that

1. Political awareness of the people who affected the voting rights to elect members of the Bangkok Council, Khlong Sam Wa District, Bangkok as a whole is at a moderate level.

2. Results of analysis to study factors affecting the exercise of rights to elect members of the Bangkok Council, Khlong Sam Wa District, Bangkok. There was the correlation coefficient between the factors of honesty and Dharma and Factors in people's political perception with the statistically significance at the 0.01 level on a high level of relationship.

3. The application of the principles of honesty and morality to promote political awareness of the people who affected the exercise of rights to elect members of the Bangkok Council, Khlong Sam Wa District, Bangkok, were found that the most people did not pay the attention to election news, because it is lack of the publicity in the election activities and is still limited by the Election Commission to declare the dates. It is the statistical significance on the level of 0.01, and there is a standard regression coefficient of 0.67.