The Sustainability of Students' Development on Sufficiency Economy Philosophy (SEP)

Abstract

The aims of this research are: to study the current and desirable states of the sustainability students' development on sufficiency economy philosophy in school; to develop model of sustainability students 'development on sufficiency economy philosophy for schools under the office of secondary educational area. Mixed - methods research approach is used consisted of four steps as follows: (1) study of 126 schools; (2) construction of a model; (3) verification of the model by 30 experts; (4) an evaluation of the model by a focus group of 15 experts, followed by final adjustments to the model. The research instruments are a questionnaire and an evaluation form. The data were analyzed by content analysis and descriptive statistics. The research results are as follows: The overall of current and desirable states of the sustainability students 'development on sufficiency economy philosophy in school at high level and at the highest level respectively. Furthermore, the model is composed of four parts: The first part is the model of the sustainability students' development. The second part is the principle and objective of model. The third part is an implementation process which consisted of four factors. They are management, curriculum development, teacher developments and students' activities. The fourth part are conditions of implementing and success.