Important characteristics of Buddhist monk as the moral teacher : A Case study in Patumthani Province, Thailand Pigultong, M.
Rajamangala University of Technology Thanyaburi
Abstract
Thailand declared an educational innovation area as a
new act to improve the achievement of the students that every
province must drive all provincial educational organizations to
support the new act. If Patumthani province has the plan to be a
city of innovation soon, especially educational innovation plan,
how will the Buddhist monks as the moral teacher in Patumthani
province to improve the educational quality of the students and
support the educational innovation area act? The temples are one
of the important factors to support the educational innovation
area act because there are many of the moral teachers to teach the
students in each school, but they do not know about the important
characteristics to support the act. There is no research about their
important characteristics as the moral teacher to point the new
direction to support the Thailand educational innovation area act.
This research consisted of qualitative and quantitative data
collection, aim to find out the important characteristics of
Buddhist monks as the moral teacher to support Thailands
educational innovation area act. Several data collection methods
were used for data collection. The first method is qualitative data
collection, divided into 2 steps, 1) Executive in-depth interview
technique with the temple administrative committee by Purposive
Sampling method. 2) Participatory data collection by the
researcher to be ordained as the Buddhist monk for 15 days. The
second method is quantitative data collection was used in step 3;
the sample is 26 Buddhist monks as the moral teacher in the temple
of Patumthani province by the Purposive Sampling method.
Content analysis and Exploratory Factor Analysis (EFA) were
used for data interpretation. The research findings Shawn that,
Buddhist monk as the moral teacher must have nine important
characteristics consist: 1) The media developer, 2) The learning
environment Manager, 3) The researcher, 4) The basic educator,
5) The basic engineer, 6) The temple manager, 7) The Social
counselor 8) The knowledge integrator and 9) The ICT user.
Keywords: Moral Teacher; Buddhist Monk; Moral Teacher characteristics; Educational innovation; Participatory Data Collection method
