Abstract:
The purposes of this research were to study the state and problems of Buddism subjects instruction in secondary schools in the aspects of teachers, students, curriculum implementation, insturctional activities management, intructional media and measurement and evaluation. Two sets of questionnaires were sent to 362 Buddism subject teachers and 358 secondary school students. The obtained data was analyzed by percentage mean and standard deviation. The results of this study were as follows : 1. State of Buddism subject instruction. It was found that most of teacher were pleased and proud of being selected as Buddhism subject teachers. Teachers were sent for training and seminar, curriculum material were provided, students were inactive in learning and they possessed and developed problem solving skills in learning but lacked of developing analytical thinking skills. The main instructional activities were those that emphasized affective and value development and the major method of teaching was lecture. Teachers produced instructional media and which were used 10-20 period per semester. For measurement and evaluation, teachers emphasized understanding for learning objectives, used testing which composed of both objective and subjective items for achievement. 2. Instructional problems of Buddism subject instruction. It was found that there were problems at the high level in the aspect of teachers, students and instructional media and there were problems at the low level in the aspect of curriculum implementation instructional activities management, instructional media and measurement and evaluation.