The Sustainability Of Academic Service For Elders In The Community, Faculty of Liberal Arts, Thailand National Sports University, Chiang Mai Campus
Keywords:
Sustainability, Academic Service, EldersAbstract
The research aimed to study the efficiency and the level of sustainability of people in the community toward the academic service including suggestions in order to take them to be the guideline for the instructors for providing efficient and effective academic service. The sample was 28 elders in Yang Noeng Community. The purposive sampling was implemented. Frequency, Mean, Percentage and Standard Deviation were implemented. The Validity of IOC was 0.858. Reliability (Cronbach Coefficients Alpha) was 0.895.
It was found that the level of sustainability of academic service for elders in the community in overall was at high level ( as 3.91, S.D. as 0.635). While considering each item, it was found that Pak Tong Chai Activity had the highest level of sustainability ( as 4.09, S.D. as 0.659), Rhythmic Activities being at high level of sustainability ( as 3.89, S.D. as 0.712) and Local Sport Games Activities being at high level of sustainability respectively ( as 3.75, S.D. as 0.588). While having in-depth interview, it was found that the academic service for the elders could be applied in their daily lives such as Local Sport Games leading harmony and entertainment in the special day events in the community. Besides, Rhythmic Activities were developed to be the exercise in the community and Pak Tong Chai Activity could make the career in the community. Those mentioned created the sustainability of academic service for elders in the community.
The suggestions were that the elders needed to have the academic service continuously and would like to have the project organizer create further projects.
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