The Success Conditions of the Operations of the Prototype Cooperatives in School Under The Office of the Basic Education Commission

Abstract

The purposes of this research were to study the cooperative school activities operation, the success conditions and the guidelines activity of the Prototype Cooperatives School under The Office of The Basic Education Commission.The research instruments were documentary analysis, in-depth interview and non-participated observe format.The 29 key informants consisted of state officers, school administrators, teachers and students of 2 prototype cooperatives schools; 1) Phratamnaksuankularb Mahamongkol School, under Nakhonpathom Primary Educational Service Area 2 and 2) Wat Thachumchon School, under Angthong Primary Educational Service Area. Content analysis by interpretation creates inductive summaries.

The findings indicated that; (1) The cooperative school activities operation consisted of 1) Marketing division to encourage students to use their creativity, practicing analysis in the production planning, practice production and finding distribution channels. 2) Financial division to promote students' saving discipline by determining appropriate savings methods, and encourage the student to learn how to operate in a bank style. 3) Productive division to encourage students to gain professional skills, life skills, and work skills, which students practice from the production process including distribution, and 4) Welfare by using some profits from the cooperatives to organize welfare activities arrangements for the benefit of members and participation.(2) The success conditions consisted of 1) leadership division that related to activities by setting goals, the success of the work in stages so that each side's operations have the same direction of success. 2) Committee division that responsible for determining the policy planning, management directions of school cooperative activities with leaders in brainstorming. 3) participation division the members are responsible for examining and monitoring the progress of the management and the board of directors to be transparent, and 4) learning division that acting as a manager the board and members of the student are born from the learning of their responsibilities, rules, and regulations in order to achieve a successful work.