Research Title: A Study of Guidelines for Solving the Moral and Ethical Problems of Students of Higher Educational Institutions in Surin Province
Researchers: Mr. Prasong Thongpra Mr. Taweesak Tongtipya Mr. Banchong Sodadee Mr. Thanoo Srithong
Department: Mahachulalongkorn rajavidyalaya University, Surin Campus
Fiscal year: 2547 / 2004
Research Scholarship Sponsor: Mahachulalongkorn rajavidyalaya University
ABSTRACT
This research aimed at studying the problem, the causes and the guidelines for solving the moral and ethical lacking problems of undergraduate students in Surin Province. Data wear collected by using questionnaires. The sample of the study consists of 433 people including teacher, educational personel from 8 tertiary educational institutes and parents in Surin. The data were analyzed by using descriptive analysis statistic and calculated by using Microsoft Excel program and percentage. The results of the study are as follows :
1. In investigating the condition of morality lacking problems in undergraduate students used 20 moral principles as standard revealed that students neglected all principles. The problems concluded from the most serious issues to the least comprise being extravagant (81.30%), participating in the night life at entertaining palaces (81.06%), addicting to drugs (78.75%), wastefully wandering around (77.14 %), committing adultery(77.14%), lacking sense of generosity (77.00 %), not respecting social principles (75.52 %), being unreasonable (75.00 %), having no perseverance (74.83 %), being fearless of sin (73.90 %), being disrespectful to older people (73.44 %), being irresponsible (73.28 %), being disloyal (72.98 %), lacking of enthusiasm in learning and self-improving (70.67 %), being impatient (70.67 %), annoying others (70.44 %), being disunited (69.75 %) accompanying friends who misbehave or assemble in unlawful events (69.75 %), participate in gambling (67.67 %), lacking of sense of obligation (67.20%) and other principles. In conclusion, the moral principles ignored by students respectively consist of gossiping and telling lies, being credulous and emotionally uncertain, being careless in surviving, lacking of love and generosity for others, not knowing self-estimation and proper consuming estimation and physically hurting others.
2. It was found that students’ lacking of moral principles caused by many reasons which can be divided into two groups; the internal causes and the external causes. The internal causes refer to the problems initiated by students themselves which comprise the lack of moral principle, having no moral consciousness, misbehaving and sticking themselves too tightly in personal pleasure and physical convenience, being unreasonable, having no moral principles to conducting their own lives, having wrong values, being too rebellious and disobedient, lacking of sense of responsibility, being too much curious in things which leads to violence, not knowing social regulations and principles, being selfish and boastful, not realizing of negative results from wastefully wandering at night, being lazy, lacking of life planning, being uninterested in giving, not realizing of the affect of their own laziness, being weak and inconsiderate, lacking of knowledge about Karma, not respecting adults, not realizing of negative results caused by gambling, not seeing the advantages of diligence. The external causes refer to the outside factors that have a strong impact upon the students, These outside causes comprise students’ lacking of right or proper training, having no good models, lacking of family warmth, wrongly imitating friends, economical, social and cultural changes and he force of economical crisis, the influence of mass media, unpleasant society, the environments full of seduction, the weakness of authorities who hole the social principles, the adults misbehavior, student’s having no opportunity to engrave morality, the inferiority in the workplaces and society the last factor is unpleasant educational institutes.
3. The solutions for morality lacking of students can be divided into two ways; the solutions made by students and solutions made by related people or institutes. The solutions to the problems caused by students themselves can be done by raising students’ moral consciousness and their interest in learning and applying moral principles to conduct their own lives. Moreover, students must be careful in living their own lives, ready to listen to reasonable matters, improving themselves and behaving properly as a student. In solving the moral problems of students by related people and institutes such as families, teachers, educational personnel, monks, and social authorities, these people must be a good model for students. Additionally, they should provide them love and warmth, good guidance and assistance in solving various problems. Schools and other educational institutes must improve their curriculum which includes more moral contents. Moreover, they must invite monks to educate their students on moral issues. Teachers must have good knowledge of morality and integrate it to the content of the main subjects. They should also evaluate students’ moral quality as well. Schools might have field trip programs and use monasteries as the center of learning. Schools and monasteries should continuously cooperate in holding morality training program. Mass media must report news or moral information proper to young people. Finally, the government must consider the issue of human resources improvement very important and seriously support moral consciousness by putting moral issues in the main national policy. Sufficient budget should be provided for many related institutes in order to support activities concerned with moral principles and human resources development.
ไม่มีความคิดเห็น:
แสดงความคิดเห็น