Educational Management Strategies in the 21st Century Dynamics for Sustainability ASEAN Community of Greater Mekong Sub-region Countries

Abstract

Strategy is the smart plan that can be implemented to achieve goals. This study examines educational management strategies for sustainability in the ASEAN community in the twenty-first century. A mixed-methods research study, as well as participatory action learning, was conducted with six Greater Mekong Sub-region (GMS) countries. The collections for the qualitative study came from a documentary study, an in-depth interview for multi-contextual and cultural perspectives by interview questionnaire with key informants of ministry administrators and basic education institution administrators of 60 people, a quantitative study for a survey by questionnaire with a sample of 480 people, and data analysis on the qualitative data was done using three main stages, namely, data reduction, data analysis, and data interpretation. Quantitative data was analyzed by descriptive statistical analysis, including mean and standard deviation, and confirmed factor analysis by LISREL Programed. The study revealed that: educational management strategies in the 21^st century dynamics at “Key” of 10^th factors including the educational leadership, creating the educational capacities, creating the efficiency of human resources, creating the educational equality, participations based on collaboration, creating the knowledge of global citizenship, creating the digital citizenship, networking, connectivity, and true assessment. By all 10 Factors to strategies to consistent with the empirical data to statistically significant at levels of 0.01.

The findings of this study can be used to drive educational management, such as improving education quality, developing human resources, fostering participation-based cooperation, integrating technology, and potentially fostering educational innovation.