A Study of Mindfulness Practice to Enhance Students’Attention in Salumpuk School, Panomtuan District, Kanchanaburi Province

Abstract

     In the research entitled to be “A study of mindfulness practice to enhance students’ attention in Salumpuk School, Panomtuan District, Kanchanaburi Province”, there are two objectives: (1) to study the mindfulness practice of students’ learning in Salumpuk School, Panomtuan District, Kanchanaburi Province, and (2) to study the result of mindfulness practice to enhance students’ attention in Salumpuk School, Panomtuan District, Kanchanaburi Province. This research is based on qualitative research method of collecting data from documents of having the mindfulness practicing activities with praying meditation in two days and from in-depth interviews.

     The result of the research was found that the mindfulness practice of students in Salumpuk School is the practice of mind education. This practice is the sitting meditation along with listening the meditation music in order to stimulate their concentration on learning and body scanning to observe their merits and routine duties and to revise what the students did and did not do in order to adjust their faults and to practice their mindfulness in playing games.

     The result of the mindfulness practice with the insight meditation was aimed to make  23 students in Salumpuk School more concentration within  2 days and 20 hours. It was found that the students could understand the mindfulness to communicate the surrounding persons without errors and negligence. They took care of themselves in traveling, continuous learning, class working with their own attention and accomplishment. They could have consciousness to know what was right or wrong, to solve the learning problems, to be responsible for their teachers’ assignments, to have pleasure in awaiting and to respect the conditions of individuals’ learning and cohabitation. They also had mindfulness in making decision and realizing the importance of praying.