ABSTRACT
The objectives of this research were (1) to study the competency of the Buddhist monk teachers in teaching Buddhism according to the opinions of school teachers under Loei Primary Educational Service Area Office 2, and (2) to compare the opinions of administrators, teachers, and personnel in the school sunder Loei Primary Educational Service Area Office 2. The instrument of this quantitative research was the five-point rating scale questionnaire, used to collect data from 317 samples that were selected by the simple random sampling. The data analysis was conducted by the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences in terms of frequency distribution (f), percentage (%), mean (), standard deviation (SD), T-test, and one-way ANOVA. Paired comparison of the means was applied to obtain the least significant difference (LSD).
The research findings were as follows:
1. The questionnaire respondents were mostly female, accounting for 213 persons or 67.2 %, with more than 51 years of age; accounting for 132 persons or 41.6 %, witha qualification at lower than Bachelor's level, accounting for 257 persons or 81 %, and with work experience between 6-20 years, accounting for 227 persons or 71.6 %.
2. The competency of the Buddhist monk teachers in teaching Buddhism according to the opinions of school teachers under Loei Primary Educational Service Area Office 2 was found to be overall at a high level (= 3.58). When considered in each aspect, the competency of the Buddhist monk teachers in teaching Buddhism according to school teachers under Loei Primary Educational Service Area Office 2 was found to be at a high level in each aspect, ranking in the descending order of the mean scores: media production and application, content and curriculum, learning process, measurement and evaluation, which was found to be at a lower level, respectively.
3. The comparison of the competency of the Buddhist monk teachers in teaching Buddhism according to the opinions of school teachers under Loei Primary Educational Service Area Office 2, classified by personal factors: gender, age, qualification and work experience, was found that the opinions of the teachers with different genders, ages, qualifications and work experiences on the competency of the Buddhist monk teachers in teaching Buddhism were found not to be overall different. That was not in accordance with the research hypothesis. When considered in each aspect: media production and application, content and curriculum, learning process, measurement and evaluation, they were found not to be different, too. That was also not in accordance with the research hypothesis.
4. The problem sand recommendations for the competency of the Buddhist monk teachers in teaching Buddhism according to the opinions of school teachers under Loei Primary Educational Service Area Office 2 were found that, in the aspect of content and curriculum, the Buddhist monk teachers lacked knowledge on curriculum designing and they had limited competence on curriculum structuring to serve the goal of the student-centered education. In the aspect of media production and application, they lacked knowledge on the teaching technology. In the aspect of learning process, they were without competence for class management and they were unable to control students while teaching. In the aspect of measurement and evaluation,it was found that the schools did not provide any assessment policy and practice as required by the Buddhist monk teachers, and at the same time, the Buddhist monk teachers lacked knowledge on measurement and evaluation in reality. It was recommended that the schools should plan for the Buddhist monk teachers to teach Buddhism in a systematical manner; assign the distinct policy to recruit the Buddhist monk teachers with higher teaching skill and knowledge for more efficient outcome; and support the Buddhist monk teacher with teaching technologies and related training courses. On the other hand, the Buddhist monk teachers should have teaching strategies with the more relaxed attitude, which was not stressed on explaining the Buddhist principles but which was resorted to entertainment methods to attract the students’ attention. The school personnel with experiences on measurement and evaluation should be assigned as the Buddhist monk teachers' consultants; and the measurement and evaluation was clearly conducted in order to understand the importance of learning the Buddhist principles.
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