COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF WATTHATSAWANG NONYANG CHILDHOOD CENTRE AT TAMBON KOOTSA AMPHOE MUEANG UDORNTHANI COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF WATTHATSAWANG NONYANG CHILDHOOD CENTRE AT TAMBON KOOTSA AMPHOE MUEANG UDORNTHANI

Abstract

The purposes of the research were : to investigate and ) to compare the level of community
participation in the development of Watthatsawangnonyang Childhood Centre at Tambon Kootsa Amphoe
Mueang Udonthani.And to study the guideline in the development of community participation. The research
samples were 52 children’s parentsof Childhood Centre, Academic Year 2015. The instrument used for data
collection was a questionnaire with the value of reliability in 0.91. The statistics used for analyzing the data
were Rating Scale by computer program. The results of the research were as follows: 1) Community
participation in the development of Watthatsawangnonyang Childhood Centre at Tambon Kootsa Amphoe
Mueang Udonthani was in ‘much’ level in overall. The highest level was the participation in evaluation,
followed by the participation in the benefit. However, it revealed that the lowest level was the participation
in the decision making. 2) Comparing the level of community participation found that the difference of
parents in gender, age and community position were not different in overall. Considering each aspect
demonstrated that the participation in the decision making was different. The level of significance is 0.05.
3)The guidelines in the development of community participation found as follows: 3.1) The participation in
the decision making revealed that firstly, most suggestions offered that community should involve with
consulting and considering of the project’s problems in the development of Childhood Centre. Secondly,
community should participate in opposing and arguing reasonably with some conflict projects. Lastly, they
suggested that the community should engage the community information so as to have enough data for
decision making to select the activity or project in the development of Childhood Centre appropriately. 3.2)
The participation in operation found that the most suggestion said that the community should select the
committee for developing the Childhood Centre, followed by the community should corporately follow the
development plan. Lastly, the community should participate to set the operational guidelines for
developing Watthatsawangnonyang Childhood Centre. 3.3) The participation in the benefit found that the
most suggestions said that community should more engage the community’s activities in unity conferences,
followed by community should congratulate on successful projects of Childhood Centre. The little suggestions found that community should self- develop and gain knowledge more after participation in their
activity done. 3.4) The participation in evaluation found that community should exchange ideas with
authorities of Childhood Centre in parent meeting in order to improve projects or activities appropriately.
Followed by community should engage the monitoring the results and the problem situations of Childhood
Centre’s progress.