The Development of a Non-formal Education Program to Enhance Career Competency for Spa Therapists

Abstract

The purposes of the research were: (1) to develop a non-formal education program to enhance career competency for Spa therapists (2) to study the results of using the non-formal education program to enhance career competency for Spa therapists (3) to analyze factors, conditions, and problems of the application of a non-formal education program to enhance career competency for Spa therapists. Research methodology can be divided into three steps: (1) the development of a non-formal education program to enhance career competency for Spa therapists, (2) study results of using the non-formal education program to enhance career competency for Spa therapists, (3) analyze factors and conditions with a group discussion of the experimental group and the interviews with the facilitator of the group. The results of the research: 1. The non-formal education program to enhance career competency for spa therapists consists of objective, learners, instructors, content, learning activities, learning period, learning resources and media, environment, assessment and evaluation. 2. The experiment results of the non-formal education program were (1) The score of the knowledge in communication Chinese language for spa therapists and ten trigger – point therapy after the experimentation increased higher than the prior experimentation with statistical significant at level of .05. (2) The score of the Chinese language communication skill for spa therapists’ skill between experimental group and control group. The experimental group have score increased higher than the control group with statistical significant at level of .05 (3) The score of ten trigger – point therapy skill between experimental group and control group. The experimental group have score not difference from the control group with statistical significant at level of .05 (4) The score of communication Chinese language attitude for spa therapists and Spa therapists career attitude after the experimentation increased higher than the prior experimentation with statistical significant at level of .05. 3. The factors and conditions of the non-formal education program to enhance career competency for spa therapists. In this research factors compose of learners, instructors, learning activities, content, learning period, and environment. Conditions compose of learners, instructors, learning activities, learning period, learning resources and media and environment.