Guidelines for expanding results to local education management from lessons learned from the success of local administrative organizations in Phetchaburi

Abstract

This research aims to: 1) extract lessons from the success of education management of local administrative organizations in Phetchaburi 2) find good practices to analyze, synthesize and expand the results to lead to guidelines for local education management. This research uses qualitative research by using 1) Documentary Research, 2) In-depth Interview with 17 key informants, including local executives from both political and permanent sectors, school administrators, and 3) Focus Group meeting with 15 people, including local executives, directors of education divisions, school administrators, teachers, school board members, local council members, and community representatives. The results of the research found that:

1. The success of the educational management of the local administrative organizations in Phetchaburi Province is as follows: 1) Local leaders and administrators see the importance of providing educational opportunities, intend and understand the decentralization of educational power to reduce social inequality, 2) Raise awareness of the importance of youth education to local personnel, and realize that the survival of the school depends on the existence of students, 3) Provide quality education where the school must be able to create a system to develop students' potential to be able to develop themselves to a higher level, 4) Quality education brings about the reputation of the school, and promotes the potential of the locality, 5) Provide education with an emphasis on community participation and responsiveness, 6) Create participation for school personnel. 2. Good practices and guidelines for expansion to be guidelines for education management of local administrative organizations include: 1) Plan for continuous student recruitment, 2) Provide and manage special education by facilitating to ease the burden of expenses for parents, 3) Build academic strength by promoting student skill competition in competition activities and contests at all levels, 4) Organize special projects to develop student potential to keep up with famous schools, 5) Emphasize the importance of developing teacher potential, increasing professional status, and organizing teaching and learning with teachers in every class, classroom, and teaching that matches knowledge and expertise, 6) Emphasize working with participation within the school, local administrative organizations, and the community, 7) Emphasize the provision of appropriate, modern materials, equipment, and locations that keep up with changes, 8) Consolidate schools and transfer them to local administrative organizations by creating understanding and adjusting the attitudes of personnel to focus on the results and impacts on the distribution of educational opportunities to the local area more than personal benefits, 9) The central agency should create and define a clear career path for educational supervisors of local administrative organizations to encourage more people to enter this position, 10) The local government organization of the school has set strict regulations for inspection and operation to prevent corruption. 11) Politics in the local government organization is a condition for success in fundraising, assistance and public relations for the school.