A Model of an Educational Administration Using the Threefold Training of Buddhist School in Sukhothai Province

Abstract

The study had 3 objectives: 1) to study the conditions of educational administration according to the Threefold principle of Buddhist Oriented Schools in Sukhothai Province, 2) to build the models of educational administration acceding to the Threefold principle of Buddhist Oriented Schools in Sukhothai Province and 3) to evaluate the models of educational administration according to the Threefold principle of Buddhist Oriented Schools in Sukhothai Province.

This study was a qualitative research. The researcher studied the documents and related research papers, interviewed the experts and professionals for 24 monks/persons by using the semi-structure type of interviews to do the content analysis. Statistics used in order to do the data analysis were mean and standard deviation.

The results of this study revealed as the following:

1. The conditions of educational administration according to the Threefold principle of Buddhist Oriented Schools in Sukhothai Province it was found that it was consisting of : 1) educational administration, 2) courses and subjects of learning, 3) learning activities administration and 4) measurement and evaluation which all were integrated with the Threefold principle respectively.


2. Building the models of educational administration according to the Threefold principle of Buddhst Oriented Schools in Sukhothai Province, it appeared that there were 4 elements: 1) planning, 2) activity design, 3) participation and 4) measurement add evaluation.


3. Evaluating the models of educational administration according to the Threefold principle of Buddhist Oriented Schools in Sukhothai Province, it showed that the results of consideration in average were accurate,suitability, possibility and benefits which was the highest level.