Cultivating Faith in Buddhism for Youths of Sangha Administration, Saraburi Province
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Objectives of this research were: 1. To study the general condition of cultivating faith in Buddhism for youths of Sangha Administration, Saraburi Province, 2. To study the faith cultivating process for youths and 3. To propose a model for faith in Buddhism cultivation for youths
Methodology was the mixed methods: Collected data by In-depth interviewing 18 key informants and 10 participants in focus group discussion and data were analyzed by content analysis and systematically descriptive interpretation. The quantitative research was conducted by collecting data from 385 sample who were students samples with questionnaires with reliability value at 0.977 and analyzed data by descriptive statistics: frequency, percentage, mean and standard deviation.SD.
Findings were as follows:
- Sangha Administration in Saraburi Province support virtue and morality for youths such as sending monks to teach morality at local schools, Weakness; monks lacked experiences in observing students’ different behaviors and experiences in solving the behavioral problems.
- Advisory process; opening the virtual clinic for students who were interested in cancelling any problems. Internal learning process; using behaviorally appropriate learning process. Holistic learning process; Buddhist activities integrated with learning content groups for external learning into the internal process with thinking, analyzing, repeating and hand-on-practicing for automatically skillfulness, Continuous learning process development; activities of morality and ethics trainings, Dhamma teaching or Dhamma dialogues in Buddhist Holidays, Buddhism lesson learning in classes everyday.
- A model for cultivating faith in Buddhism for youths of Sangha Administration, Saraburi Province were as follows: Model 1; Counseling by Buddhist method( Kalayanmitadhamma). Model 2; internal learning process according to Buddhism(Yonisomanasikara). Model 3; Holistic learning process according to Buddhism(Tisikkha). Model 4; continuous round learning process by Buddhist method; (Pavana4).
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