A STUDY OF APPLICATION THE PHILOSOPHY OF SUFFICIENCY ECONOMY FOR ACADEMIC ADMINISTRATION IN SCHOOLS UNDER THE SECONDARY EDUCATIONAL SERVICE AREA 31 OFFICE

Abstract

The objectives of this research were to 1) study level of applying the philosophy of sufficiency economy for academic administration of schools, according to the opinions of executive and teachers, and 2) compare level of applying the philosophy of sufficiency economy for academic administration of schools under the secondary education service area 31 office. The participants were classified by both overall and individual status of respondents. The samples used in this study were the executive and teachers. The samples for this research were 453 respondents. The research tool were the questionnaires the scale about the 5 levels of value. The data were analyzed by using mean, standard deviation t-test, F-test with Fisher’s Least Significance Difference (LSD) The results of the research were as follows: 1. The application was at high level, when each aspect and arranged was analyzed by the high and low mean respectively, it found that there were 4 aspects in the most level; 1) the school curriculum development aspect, 2) learning process development aspect, 3) the evaluate assessment aspect and 4) the educational supervision aspect. Besides, the using of technology and development aspect was the one in medium level. 2. The opinions of the executives and teachers in overall were not different, when it was described by each item, which found that the executives and teachers, who have different education level, and current position, showed different opinions. The opinions of the executives and teachers, who again different working experiences and worked in different school size, were not different at the static significant .05