EARLYCHILDHOOD DEVELOPMENT CENTER ADMINISTRATION UNDER LOCAL ADMINISTRATIVE ORGANIZATION OF PHITSANULOK PROVINCE

Abstract

The purposes of this study were to: 1) The management problems of Childhood Development Centers according to the standard under local administrative organization of Phitsanulok Province. 2) Guideline for the management of Childhood Development Centers according to the standard under local administrative organization of Phitsanulok Province which is consist of 6 aspects 1) Management budget for Childhood Development Center 2) Human resource 3) Facility, Environmental, Health and Safety 4) Academic and Curriculum Activity 5) Community and Participation from all Interested parties 6) Supportiveness from Childhood Development Center network. The study samples were Top Management of Childhood Development Centers 142 persons and Teacher 111 persons with the total 253 persons. The instrument used was 1) a questionnaire divided into five levels, about the statistical methods used to analyses data were mean ( ) and standard deviation (SD). The reliability value of this study was 0.84 and 2) a questionnaire for managements’ opinion to solve the problem of Childhood Development Centers.

The result of this research was found 1) The management problems of Childhood Development Centers according to the standard under local administrative organization of Phitsanulok Province were at moderate level with the highest mean ( = 3.52) for Human resource aspect and the lowest mean ( = 2.51) for Management budget for Childhood Development Center aspect. 2) Guideline for the management of Childhood Development Centers according to the standard under local administrative organization of Phitsanulok Province from top 3 is 2.1) The local administrative organization should follow the standard for recruiting, planning and provide enough children’s caretakers. The local administration organization should support children’s caretakers to get Professional Teacher Certificate. 2.2) The local administrative organization should prepare budget and allocate the place for child parents to access the relevant information and organize an event to get child parents participation. The cooperation from children parents or community may come from their skill or labor. 2.3) The administration organization from local, district or city level should promote and support shift of child development center and children’s caretakers to attend the meeting continually for information exchange among child development centers and select the best one who manage the child development center in effective manner as its prototype for learning center.