Peace Innovation for Increasing Faith in the Pali Studies of Novices at Wat Nimmanoradee
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The research article consisted of the following objectives: 1) to analyze the context, problems, needs, concepts of modern science, and the Buddhist peaceful means conducive to increasing faith in Pali studies among novices at Wat Nimmanoradee; and 2) to develop peace innovation for increasing faith in Pali studies of novices at Wat Nimmanoradee. The study used a mixed-method research method involving a pilot experiment. The data were collected by conducting in-depth interviews with 22 persons and focus group discussion with 6 persons. The peace innovation was tested with 15 novices at Wat Nimmanoradee and evaluated by measuring motivation to increase faith, participant observation, and after action review. The obtained data were analyzed by mean, standard deviation, and t-test.
From the study, the following results are found:
1) Because learning Pali is mandatory for novices at the temple to learn, so they do not have goals in their studies, causing novices to lack faith. When learning at a higher level, Pali is difficult and complicated, and teachers mainly focus on memorization. As a result, novices get discouraged. The 21st century learning management, adolescent psychology, and the concept of C-teacher along with Iddhipāda (the four paths of accomplishment) contribute to making the novices learn Pali with life goals.
2) The development of peace innovation to increase faith in Pali studies includes action learning activities for 3 days and learning practice to increase self-study skills for 21 days, with 6 modules. In a group sample of 15 novices, the mean score of the posttest assessing faith in learning Pali based on Iddhipāda is higher than that of the pretest with a statistical significance of 0.05 and a t-test of 2.26. Novices recognize benefits and importance of Pali studies. A body of knowledge gained is ‘We love Pali’ model.
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