Model of Buddhist administration of Office of the non – formal And informal education in lower northern

Abstract

The study had 3 objectives : 1) to study the Buddhist administration conditions of the Office of Non-Formal and Informal Education in the Lower Northern Region 2) to build the models of Buddhist administration of the Office of Non-Formal and Informal Education in the Lower Northern Region and 3) to evaluate the models of Buddhist administration of the Office of Non-Formal and Informal Education in the Lower Northern Region.

                 This study used the research regulations of Descriptive Research which divided into 3 stages. 1) to study the Buddhist administration condition of the Office of Non-Formal and Informal Education in the Lower Northern Region from 18 professional committees by using semi-structure type of interviews to do the content analysis 2) to build the models of Buddhist administration of the Office of Non-Formal and Informal Education in the Lower Northern Region according to the Threefold principles from 13 informants. The tool was the form of recording group conversations being as the content analysis and 3) to evaluate the models of Buddhist administration of the Office of Non-Formal and Informal Education in the Lower Northern Region by 30 experts. The tool used the form of model evaluation S.T. and S.D. were forms of statistic used.

                 The results revealed as the following:

                 1 The Buddhist administration conditions of the Office of Non-Formal and Informal Education in the Lower Northern Region, were consisted of 4 aspects : 1) Academic aspect, 2) Budget aspect, 3) Personnel aspect and 4) General administration aspect.

1. The model of Buddhist administration of the Office of Non-Formal and Informal Education in the Lower Northern Region has been showed that the Buddhist administration according to the Threefold principle was brought in using such as : 1) Sila Sikkha : regulations, 2) Smathi Sikkha : performing as duties and 3) Panya Sikkha : results of performances which were all integrated together to be the models of Buddhist administration of the Office of Non-Formal and Informal Education in the Lower Northern Region.


2. To evaluate the models of Buddhist administration of the Office of Non-Formal and Informal Education in the Lower Northern Region, it found that there were 4 significant elements: the correctness of the models, the suitability of the models, the possibility of the models and the benefit of the models which the results of the evaluation of the models were at high level for all aspects.