Educational Management for Unity and Peace in ASEAN Community: Research into Practice

Abstract

Educational management for unity and peace in ASEAN community was presented in this article. It is the development of research into practice. The purposes were to develop strategy of educational management for the unity, and to propose trends of educational management for peace in ASEAN community. Future Research using Ethnographic Delphi Future Research (EDFR) was designed and the target group was educational personnel from ten ASEAN countries. Research tools were interview schedule and questionnaires. Qualitative data were analyzed by using content analysis and analytic induction, and quantitative data from EDFR questionnaires were analyzed using median, mode and interquartile range as descriptive statistics.  Results were showed as follows: six strategic aspects of educational management for unity in ASEAN were synthesized which consisted of strategy 1 is to develop teachers and administrators, strategy 2 is to collaborate curriculum and assessment, strategy 3 is to enhance teaching and instruction, strategy 4 is to encourage educational research, strategy 5 is to facilitate educational opportunity, and strategy 6 is to develop educational management. The scenario of ASEAN education roadmap is to predict the future of education that to move towards education cooperation in 2018, to be a unity in education in 2020, to have education for peace in 2022, and to make ASEAN community full of unity and peace of education in 2024.