LEARNING CENTER WITH THE PROMOTION OF BASIC MORALITY TO BUILD SUFFICIENCY HABITS

Abstract

This article is intended to be written for youth, students, and the general public to study about teaching and learning, including 1) the meaning of the philosophy of Sufficiency Economy, 2) integrated learning management that emphasizes the learners as important, 3) the application of the philosophy of Sufficiency Economy in educational institutions, and 4) the Students take pride in strengthening basic morality in order to create a sufficiency habit that is uniquely Thai. These are the direct experiences of the students who have learned both from the theory and actual practice. Every educational institutions can organize the teaching and learning process according to the philosophy of Sufficiency Economy. A learning center based on the Sufficiency Economy Philosophy is a learning center that focuses on allowing students to learn from experience and practice. The school has learning resources for actual practice in organizing the learning process, both learning that comes from experience and practice. The Sufficiency Economy Philosophy is inserted or integrated into some subjects. But this learning arrangement depends on the geo-social context of each institutions and must be arranged to suit the age of the learners. Moreover, there is organizing activities for students to focus on strengthening morality and ethics in order to build sufficiency habits by emphasizingreal practice, giving students life skills that are based on being a good person, there is morality as the main principle in the Buddhist way of life.