Abstract:
The purpose of this research was to study and to compare the beliefs in educational philosophy of instructors and graduate students in the Faculty of Education, Ramkhamhaeng University classified by sex, age and working experiences, also to compare their self-identified beliefs in educational philosophy to their actual beliefs in educational philosophy as expressing in the questionnaires.Research Methodology The research instrument used to collect data was a questionnaire which was constructed by the researcher together information from both instructors and graduate students while attending classes. 550 questionnaires were distribution and 458 or 83.27%Were back Data analysis The data were analyzed through frequency distribution, percentage and Chi-square test.Findings1. The beliefs in educational philosophy of instructors and graduate students of Education Ramkhamhaeng University was revealed that the instructors' beliefs mostly leaded to Buddhism and the graduate students' beliefs mostly leaded to Perennialism.2. A comparison of the beliefs in education philosophy of instructors and graduate of the Faculty of Education, Ramkhamhaeng Univresity in five aspects, namely educational objective, curriculum, school, instructor, and process of instruction was found that:(a) Their beliefs in each aspect were statistically different at 0.05 level of significance. (b) Their beliefs in each aspect classified by sex, age and working experiences revealed thatThe instructors of different sexes had different beliefs in the aspect of curriculum at 0.05 Level of significance, and there was no difference in the rest aspects . The instructors with different ages and working experiences has different beliefs in the aspect of educational objective at 0.05 level of significance, and there was no difference in the rest aspects. The beliefs in educational philosophy of the graduate students of different sexes were not statistically different at 0.05 level of significance. Graduate students with different ages level of significance and working experiences had different beliefs in the aspects of curriculum and process of instruction at 0.05 level of significance.There was no difference in the rest aspects.(3) The difference between the instructors' and the graduate students' beliefs in educational philosophy which were self-identified and were expressed in the questionnaires was statistically significant in the aspects of educational objective, curriculum, school, and process of instruction at 0.05 level of significance. However, there was no difference in the aspect of instructor.