FACTORS AFFECTING TO THE SUCCESS OF COOPERATIVE NETWORKING FOR ELEVATING OF EDUCATIONAL PROVISION EFFICIENCY AT EARLY CHILDHOOD LEVEL UNDER LOCAL ADMINISTRATIVE ORGANIZATION
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The purposes of this research were 1) to study condition and need for cooperative networks development for elevating educational provision efficiency of educational provision efficiency at early childhood level under Local Administrative Organization from stakeholders’opinion, 2) to study factors affecting the success of cooperative networking using multi-level analysis. Research method used quantitative and qualitative research. A sample group in the study of condition and need for cooperative networks composed of the child development centers, higher education institution that produces childhood teachers, network partners, totaling 776 people, and the sample group for studying factors affecting the success of cooperative networking from the aforementioned 3 stakeholders groups, a total of 1,970 were researched. The research tools were questionnaires and interview forms. Data were analyzed by using basic statistics, cross tabulation analysis, multi-level analysis and content analysis. The key were research findings showed 1) The current condition of cooperative networks for elevating educational provision efficiency of child development centers under Local Administrative Organization of 3 groups of stakeholders’ opinion (the child development centers, higher education institution that produces childhood teachers, network partners) found that the majority of 3 groups’ opinion were no cooperative networks (48.75%, 87.50% and 53.75% respectively) and the need of cooperative networks development for elevating educational provision efficiency found that the majority of 3 groups’ opinion needed for cooperative networks (96.87%, 100.00% and 97.25% respectively). 2) The result of multi-level analysis indicated that micro variables explaining the success of cooperative networking for elevating educational provision efficiency of educational provision efficiency at early childhood level under Local Administrative Organization were administrators’ academic leadership and the intention of network partners for developing child development centers, whereas macro variables that could significantly explained the success of cooperative networking for elevating educational provision efficiency were administrators’ academic leadership and the monitoring of child development centers’ original affiliation.
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