THE POTENTIAL OF MORALITY TEACHING MONKS IN MUEANG DISTRICT, RATCHABURI PROVINCE

Abstract

The purposes of this research were (1) to study the potential level of monks morality teaching in Muang District, Ratchaburi Province, (2) to compare the potential of monks morality teaching in Muang District, Ratchaburi Province by classifying according to personal factors and (3) to study problems, obstacles, and suggestions for potential development of monks morality teaching in Muang District, Ratchaburi Province. The research methodology was a mixed method research. In part of the quantitative research, a questionnaire was used as a tool to collect field data from 363 senior high school students under Muang District, Ratchaburi Province, data was analyzed by finding frequency, percentage, mean, and standard deviation, hypothesis was tested by T-test, F-test, one-way ANOVA and in the part of qualitative research, document analysis and the interview form were used as the tools for collecting field data from 9 key informants and analyzing the data with contextual content analysis techniques. The results showed that; 1) The potential level of monks morality teaching in Muang District, Ratchaburi Province, in general, was at a high level of practice and when considering individually, it was found that the level of practice was at a high level in all 3 aspects, respectively, human relations, conceptual, and technical method. 2) The comparison of the potential of monks morality teaching in Muang District, Ratchaburi Province, classified by personal factors, it was found that the personal factors such as gender, school affiliation and parent occupation showed that opinions towards the potential of monks morality teaching were different with statistical significance at the 0.01 level. As for parent's income, it showed that the opinion towards the potential of monks morality teaching in general was no difference. 3) The problems and obstacles included, lack of teaching techniques of monks morality teaching, taught by focusing on memorizing and lecturing, lack of interaction and questioning with students, no creation of a learning atmosphere, lack of teaching evaluation and learning, lack of teaching methods for learning to achieve thinking skills rather than memorizing, lack of teaching methods for applying Buddhist principles that promoted conceptual thinking. The suggestions were to develop monks morality teaching in teaching techniques on evaluation, supervision, solving problems, thinking skills and application of Buddhist principles in teaching.