Background and Roles of Volunteer Spirit Teachers towards Hill Tribe Students Development in Tha Song Yang District, Tak Province

Abstract

This study is qualitative research. The research objectives were to study background, approaching, inspiration and roles of volunteer spirit teachers towards hill tribe students’ development in Tha Song Yang district, Tak province. The purposive sampling was 19 volunteer spirit teachers of Mae Wei Suk Sar School and Barn Dork Mai Sod School. The data collected by the stayed at community and in-dept interview method and descriptive analysis with frequency and content analysis.

The research revealed that all 19 volunteer spirit teachers were 14 females, 5 males, aged between 19-65 years old, with 14 people are married and 5 people were single. Most of them are Christian. Education background consisted 6 people graduated from senior high school, further study in bachelor degree 9 volunteers and 4 volunteers graduated in bachelor degree. Most of volunteer spirit teachers were local people or used to work with the pastor and had opportunity to gain further study from the pastor. They are grateful and bounded to the community by having inspiration from awareness and consciousness. They would like to help hill tribe students who lack of opportunity and would like to develop their homeland. The roles of volunteer spirit teachers towards hill tribe students’ development consists physicality development was school lunch provided to students and various outdoor exercise activities arrangement, mentality development was fun classroom activities for students and ware of love homeland, society development was aware of ethics and morality, manner management and growing self help skills, intellectually development was growing activities related the lesson and academic competition encourage.