GUIDELINES TO PROMOTE TEACHING OF SOCIAL STUDIES IN RELIGIONS, MORALITIES, AND ETHICS FOR TEACHERS UNDER CHANTHABURI PRIMARY EDUCATIONAL SERVICE AREA OFFICE

Abstract

     The purposes of this research were to study conditions and problems of social study learning management and establish guidelines to advance social study learning management in the subject area of religion, moral, and ethics for teachers in schools under Chanthaburi Primary Educational Service Area Office. The research instrument was a five-level rating scale with 47 items. Its discrimination power per item was between .58 - .95, and the reliability of the questionnaire was at .95. The sample consisted of 348 teachers who taught social study, religion and culture in the schools under Chanthaburi Primary Educational Service Area Office 1 and 2. The sample was selected by multi-stage sampling method.  The collected data were analyzed by percentage, mean and standard deviation. Focus group discussion and content analyzes according to the discussion were employed in order to find guidelines to promote social study learning management of religion, moral and ethics subjects for the teachers in the schools under Chanthaburi Primary Educational Service Area Office. The results in this research showed that:

1. The condition of social study learning management on religion, moral and ethics subjects of the teachers in the schools under Chanthaburi Primary Educational Service Area Office as a whole was significance.  The teaching and learning activities are rank on the top. The assessment and evaluation, teachers were at a high level, and 4) learning resource and media were average.
2. The problems of social study learning management for religion, moral and ethics subjects of the teachers in the schools under Chanthaburi Primary Educational Service Area Office in total was at a medium level. When ranging each item from highest to lowest, it showed that; learning resource and media was at a significance, teaching and learning activities were average, teachers, assessment and evaluation were at the bottom.
3. The essential mechanism of learning management was the teachers themselves. They needed to pay attention on learning activities, learning resources and media, assessment and evaluation, and learning management in which the learners could genuinely apply learned knowledge in their daily lives. The guidelines to promote social study leaning management of religion, moral, and ethics subjects included: 1) encouraging and developing the teachers to continuously have necessary knowledge and skills, 2) promoting varieties of teaching and learning activities that facilitated learning in which these activities should not focus too much on memorizing, 3) developing various learning media innovation and design as well as encouraging the learners to use different learning resources outside the classroom, and 4) improving assessment and evaluation skills for the teachers in order to encourage them to participate in stipulating an evaluation method.