Good Governance-based School Administration

Abstract

Good Governance has been political debate in Thailand since B.E. 2540 (1997), which The Constitutional of the Kingdom of Thailand, B.E. 2540 (1997) was drafting. The preliminary version emphasized the administration of country as democratic society and more civic
engagement. Subsequently, there was the Regulations of the Office of the Prime Minister on Good Governance, B.E. 2542 (1999), which required all government agencies to run under six good governance principles. Subsequently, there was the Royal Decree Concerning Protection and Good Governance 2546 (2003) consisted of ten good governance principles. And Subsequently, the Office of Public Sector Development grouped good governance principles in concerning protection consisted of four good governance principles and 10 sub good governance principles which was approved by the cabinet meeting on April 24, 2012. The new good governance principles in concerning protection consisted of 1) New Public Management, involved Efficiency, Effectiveness, and Responsiveness 2) Democratic Value, involved Accountability, Transparency, Rule of Law, and Equity3) Participatory Oriented, involved Participation/Consensus Oriented and Decentralization 4) Administrative Responsibility, involved Morality/Ethics. Every administrator has to be a person with knowledge or science in administration, and could apply those sciences to be artistic implementation. To be successful in using good governance in school administration, schools need to develop corporate culture to be good governance culture by implementing 3 stages; setting corporate culture, developing corporate culture, and maintaining corporate culture. In this situation, developing school stakeholders
in order to gain knowledge, abilities, and good attitude in implementing scope of educational administration and good governance are needed which the school administrator always has to act as a good example continuously. That will make the good governance-based school administration to be successful as a cogwheel restraint steadily forever.