Guidelines for The Development of The 4 Brahmavihara Characteristics of The School Administrators Under The Ang Thong Primary Educational Service Area Office

Abstract

The objectives of this research are: 1) to study the characteristics of school administrators under the Office of Ang Thong Primary Educational Service Area, 2) to study guidelines of the characteristics development of school administrators according to the principles of Brahmavihara, and 3) to propose the guidelines of the characteristics development according to the principles of Brahmavihara of school administrators under the Office of Ang Thong Primary Educational Service Area. The mixed research methodology was used in the study. The quantitative data were collected by questionnaires from 122 samples and analyzed by percentage, frequency, mean and standard deviation. The qualitative data were collected by in-depth interviews and then analyzed by content analysis.

          The research results were found that:

          The state of characteristics of school administrators under the Office of Ang Thong Primary Educational Service Area was at a high level overall. In descending order, the highest was on human relations, followed by leadership, personality, knowledge, capability, and morality and ethics respectively.

          The guidelines of the characteristics development of school administrators according to the principles of Brahmavihara indicated that Metta consists of 9 characteristics, Karuna has 18 characteristics, Mudita has 11characteristics, and Upekkha consists of 12 characteristics.

          The guidelines of the characteristics development according to the principles of Brahmavihara of school administrators under the Office of Ang Thong Primary Educational Service Area consist of 6 areas; 1) Development of speaking skill and conversation skill, 2) Development of listening skill, 3) Development of clothing and dressing, 4) Development of emotion, 5) development of world-wide and modern knowledge, and 6) Development of memory.