A Strategy of Educational Administration by Sufficiency Economy Philosophy Application for Success of the Secondary Schools in the Lower Northeastern Region 1

Abstract

The objectives of this research were to; 1) study the current situations and needs of educational administrative strategy; 2) construct and develop the strategy; and 3) check the feasibility and utility of the strategy by application of the principles of the Sufficiency Economy Philosophy (SEP) for successfulness of the secondary schools in the Lower Northeastern Region 1. The methodology was of 3 stages: 1) studying the documents, researches concerned, and interview 5 intellectuals covering the academic, human resource, budgeting and general affairs with SEP application and construct the questionnaires scrutinized by 5 experts with IOC higher than 0.60, having 208 school administrators and teachers of secondary schools as samples responding the questionnaires; 2) analyzing the SWOT and construct a draft for focus group by 7 intellectuals and developing form for evaluating the appropriateness of those followings; 3) constructing the questionnaires with reliability 0.97 to the 141 samples for responding the feasibility and utility; and 4) analyzing the data and integrating the complete strategy. The statistics used for data analyzing were percentage, mean and standard deviation.

The research findings were as follows: The current situations of the educational administration by SEP application as perceived by administrators and teachers as a whole were at a high level. When considering each component, it was found that academic affair was at the highest level in the first category and general affair was at a moderate level in the final one. The needs of the educational administration by SEP application as a whole were at the highest level. When considering each component, it was found that academic affair was at the highest level in the first category, but general affair was at a high level in the final one. The results of constructing and developing the strategy by SEP application with SWOT analysis gained the strategy of: (1) vision; (2) mission; (3) goal; and (4) main strategy of the (1) teaching and learning development; (2) enhancing all the personnel know and understand the SEP for administrating; (3) developing the budgeting system; and (4) developing a participative system for educational network developing. This strategy taken to evaluate the propriety was found as a whole at the highest level. When considering each strategy, it was found that vision, mission, and goal were at the highest level running in the first category and the first and the third strategy were at the highest level in the final one.  The results of checking the feasibility and utility of strategy as a whole were at the highest level. When considering each component, it was found that the feasibility and utility of vision, mission and goal were firstly at the highest level and all strategic components were secondly at the highest level.