The Administration of Educational Institutions based on Sangahavatthu IV in Educational basic schools under Chaiyaphum Primary Educational Service Area Office I

Abstract

The aims of this research were:1) to study the conditions of educational administration based on Sangahavatthu Dhamma IV (Pāli: saṅgahavatthu, bases of social solidarity) in the basic educational schools under Chaiyaphum Primary Educational Service Area Office 1; 2) to compare the opinions of the educational administrators and teachers towards the educational administration based on Sangahavatthu Dhamma IV in accordance with the sample personal factors: positions, education and working experience; 3) to study the ways to promote educational administration based on Sangahavatthu Dhamma IVIn this study, the mixed method research was used to collect the data from the samples including 270 educational administrators and teachers. The research tools were a questionnaire with its reliability value of .97. The obtained quantitative data were analyzed by using the following statistics: Frequency, Percentage, Standard Deviation, Mean, t-test and
f-test. With the use of in-depth interview, the qualitative data collected from 12 key informants, selected by purposive sampling were interpreted by the content analysis together with considering the research framework.

          The research results were as follows:

          1) The statistic mean score of the conditions of educational administration based on Sangahavatthu Dhamma IV was at a high level and the mean score of the aspect ‘Educational administration based on kindly speech (piyavācā)’was the highest one, followed by that of ‘Educational administration based on useful conduct (atthacariyā)’, ‘Educational administration based on generosity (dāna)’and ‘Educational administration based on equality consisting in impartiality (samānattatā) respectively.

          2) The mean scores based on the comparison of the opinions of the educational administrators and teachers towards the educational administration based on Sangahavatthu Dhamma IV in accordance with the sample personal factors: positions, education and working experience were different with the statistical significance level of .01.

          3) The ways to promote educational administration based on Sangahavatthu Dhamma IV are that 1) in educational administration based on generosity, the educational administrators should support the personnel with providing them welfares; 2) in educational administration based on kindly speech, the good speech creating love, harmony and encouragement should be used; 3) in educational administration based on useful conduct, regular and occasional public assistance should be performed; 4) in educational administration based on equality consisting in impartiality, the work schedule of the educational institutes should be implemented systematically by the personnel.