Proposed Educational Administration Strategies for Schools Transferred from the Office of the Basic Education Commission to Subdistrict Administration Organizations

Authors

  • Sukanya Chaemchoy

Keywords:

Educational Administration Conditions and Problems, OBEC, SAO

Abstract

The purposes of this research were 1) to analyze educational administration conditions and problems of transferred schools from the office of the basic education commission (OBEC) to the sub district administration organization (SAO 2); to propose educational administration strategies for transferred school from OBEC to SAO using mixed methodology research. Unit of analysis in Quantitative study were 18 transferred schools. 350 samples were collected from SAO CEO, SAO DCEO, academics, school administrators, teachers and academic staffs, school committees, and parents, using questionnaires to survey the educational administration conditions of transferred school from OBEC to SAO. Data were analyzed using frequencies, percentage, mean, standard deviation, and t-test. A school, which was successful in educational administration, was selected for qualitative study in order to formulate strategies by using the SWOT analysis technique. Then the strategies were examined using a focus group technique. The research findings follow:

  1. The school administrative environment after school transferred from OBEC to SAO is higher than before school transferred in the statistical significant range of 0.05.
  2. The key success factors in educational administration include 1) A clear educational development plan, generated through participation processes and consistent with SAO‘s development plan, 2) Vision and Leadership of executive such as SAO CEO or educational principals, 3) Teachers and academic staffs working team, sharing and helping each other, 4) Sense of belonging in school, 5) Learning culture among school, community, and SAO.
  3. Proposed educational administration strategies for schools transferred from OBEC to SAO, called ―School and Community Based anagement: SCBM Strategy‖, consists of 3 policy strategies and 7 project strategies and 21 function strategies.

Author Biography

Sukanya Chaemchoy

Ph.D. Candidate in Educational Administration, Department of Educational Policy, Management and Leadership, Faculty of Education, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand

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Chaemchoy, S. (2014). Proposed Educational Administration Strategies for Schools Transferred from the Office of the Basic Education Commission to Subdistrict Administration Organizations. Scholar: Human Sciences, 3(1). Retrieved from https://assumptionjournal.au.edu/index.php/Scholar/article/view/271

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Vol. 3 No. 1 (2011): Scholar

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