A Model for Developing Learning Experience Management Based on Waldorf's Concepts to Develop Creative Thinking for Early Childhood Children under Sakonnakhon Primary Educational Service Area Office 3

Abstract

The objectives of this research were 1) to develop a model for developing learning experience management based on Waldorf's concepts to develop creative thinking for early childhood children under Sakonnakhon Primary Educational Service Area Office 3 and 2) to study the findings of the use of the model for developing learning experience management based on Waldorf's concepts to develop creative thinking for early childhood children under Sakonnakhon Primary Educational Service Area Office 3. The samples were 17 children aged 4-6 years studying in the kindergarten at Ban Na Khoi School under Sakonnakhon Primary Educational Service Area Office 3 in the academic year of 2022 selected by purposive sampling. The research instruments were 1) a five-rating-scale questionnaire used to create a model for developing learning experience management based on Waldorf's concepts to develop creative thinking for early childhood children consisting of 4 components: 1) learning experience management plans based on Waldorf's concepts, learning experience management, creative thinking for early childhood children, and Waldorf's concepts with the index of the item objective conjuence (IOC) between .80-1.00, 2) learning experience management plans based on Waldorf's concepts used to study the findings of the use of the model with the IOC of 1.00, and 3) a creative thinking development test used to measure and evaluate the findings of the use of the model with the IOC between .80-1.00. The statistics used were frequency, percentage, mean, standard deviation, and statistical software packages.
The research findings were as follows.
1. The developed model for developing learning experience management based on Waldorf's concepts to develop creative thinking for early childhood children under Sakonnakhon Primary Educational Service Area Office 3 by using the appropriateness examination method consisting of the model components: learning experience management plans based on Waldorf's concepts, learning experience management, creative thinking for early childhood children, and Waldorf's concepts was appropriate in the overall at the highest level. When each component was considered, most of the components were at the highest level. When the components were organized from the highest to the lowest, learning experience management plans based on Waldorf's concepts were at the highest level, followed by learning experience management, creative thinking for early childhood children, and Waldorf's concepts, respectively.
2. The study of the findings of the use of the model for developing learning experience management based on Waldorf's concepts to develop creative thinking for early childhood children by using the creative thinking development test showed that after managing learning experience, early childhood children had creative thinking higher than before managing learning experience with the statistical significance at the level of .01.