Prototype School on Development of Morals and Ethics for Early Childhood in the 21st Century

Authors

  • Pornteap Leethong-in Faculty of Education, Suan Dusit University, Thailand
  • Thipsuda Kitlert Faculty of Education, Suan Dusit University, Thailand
  • Venus Sakunhom Faculty of Education, Suan Dusit University, Thailand
  • Mongkolchai Boonkaew Faculty of Education, Suan Dusit University, Thailand

Keywords:

Moral and ethics, Physical literacy, Outcome mapping, Early childhood

Abstract

This research aimed to develop an outcome mapping workshop, assesment criteria, and quality assessment of prototype school on the development of morals and ethics for early childhood in the 21st Century. The participants were boundary partners from 4 schools under the Nakhon Nayok Primary Educational Service Area Office, Nakhon Nayok Province, Academic Year 2021, consisting of 20 people; 14 direct partners and 6 strategic partners. Participants wereselected by using purposive sampling technique. The participants attended a 2-day outcome mapping workshop for the prototype school on the development of morals and ethics for early childhood in the 21stcentury. Then, the appropriateness of the outcome mapping workshop was examined in order to investigate the efficiency and effectiveness, and ensure standards of accuracy, suitability, feasibility, and advantages. Qualitative data were analyzed using content analysis and quantitative data was analyzed using basic statistics including percentage, mean, and standard deviation.
The results showed that prototype school on the development of morals and ethnics for early childhood in the 21st century consisted of 3 major steps and 12 minor steps. The evaluation criteria for the prototype school on development of the morals and ethics of early childhood in the 21st century consisted of 17 indicators, 88 practical criteria. The quality of the outcome mapping worskhop consisted of two components: 1) the efficiency and effectiveness based on weight of assesesment cirteria before and after the experiement according to the pre and post experiment increased; and 2) the verification of the results and evaluation criteria for standardized outcome mapping was accurate, suitable, and feasible. The overall usefulness was scored at a very good level.

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2023-05-09

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Leethong-in, P., Kitlert, T., Sakunhom, V., & Boonkaew, M. (2023). Prototype School on Development of Morals and Ethics for Early Childhood in the 21st Century. Journal of Multidisciplinary in Social Sciences, 19(1), 55–62. Retrieved from https://so03.tci-thaijo.org/index.php/sduhs/article/view/268339

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