DEVELOPMENT PROTOTYPE FOR YOUTH OF MORALITY AND ETHICS TRAINING OF SANGHA SURATTHANI PROVINCE

Abstract

This research paper aimed to analyze the general condition, process and present a model of prototype youth development, conducted with the mixed methods. The qualitative method, data were collected by in-depth interviewing 18 key informants and 8 participants in focus group discussion Data were analyzed by content descriptive interpretation. The quantitative research, data were collected from 283 samples with questionnaire and analyzed by frequency, percentage, mean, standard deviation.

Findings were that: 1. Children and youth lacked training to gain knowledge and understanding in the morality, virtues and ethics, 2. The process of developing the modeled youth regarding morality and ethics of the Sangha of Surat Thani Province, by overall, was at high level with average of 3.99. 3. Proposed guidelines for the modeled youth development in 3 areas: 1) the content of the training course should be organized on morality and ethics. Lecturers and administrators should analyze and plan training management by the nature of a workshop. 2) training activities. Training should be conducted in a new format integrating lecturing with video to arouse learning eagerness. 3) the use of teaching media in Moral and ethics training should be organized by using teaching media and learning resources as the main mechanism for training that the lecturers must produce appropriate teaching materials.