STRATEIES FOF DEVELOPING FEMALE ADMINISTRATOR LEADERSHIP OF SCHOOL ADMINISTRATORS BASED ON THE BUDDHIST PRINCIPLES IN THE CHAOTIC ERA OF SCHOOLS UNDER THE PRIMARY EDUCATIONAL SERVICE AREA OFFICE

Abstract

This research article aimed to propose a strategy for developing female leadership of school administrators according to Buddhist principles in the chaotic world era of schools under the Office of the Primary Educational Service Area. This research was a mixed-method research with a qualitative research method by studying documents and creating a semi-structured interview form for in-depth interviews with 5 key informants, developing strategies by focusing on group discussions with 9 experts, testing the strategies with one school in Pathum Thani Province, and quantitative research method. There were 2 sample groups: Group 1, studying the leadership of female school administrators in the chaotic world era of schools, namely 379 school administrators and teachers. Group 2, evaluating the strategies, namely 377 school administrators and teachers. The questionnaires were distributed according to the evaluation standards in 4 dimensions: usefulness, feasibility, appropriateness, and accuracy. The statistics used for data analysis were mean, percentage, standard deviation, and need index.

The research results found that the strategies for developing female leadership of school administrators according to Buddhist principles in the chaotic world era of schools under the Office of the Primary Educational Service Area consisted of 1) Vision, 2) Mission, 3) Objectives, 4) Five sub-strategies: Strategy to promote change, Strategy to inspire education management, Strategy to promote participation, Strategy to promote respect for others, Strategy to increase potential for innovation creation along with the guidelines for driving strategies into practice with the principles of Six S r nīyadhamma. The results of the strategy trial found that the evaluation of the trial use was higher than before the evaluation of the trial use and the results of the strategy evaluation found that overall, the aspect with the highest average value at the highest level was the aspect of usefulness, ranked from most to least, as follows: the aspect of correctness was at the highest level, the aspect of appropriateness was at the highest level, and the aspect of feasibility was at the highest level.