Abstract:
The purposes of this research were to study the state and problems of integrating peace education and guidelines for solving problems of integrating peace education in school curriculum in southern border schools. The samples used in research was 16 school administrators, 7 social studies teachers ,8 teachers in other subject areas, 42 teachers responsible for student development activities. Data were collected by means of structured interview and then analyzed by frequencies, percentage and content analysis.The research findings were as follows: 1. The state. 1.1. Curriculum preparation: teacher attended the training course 1.2 School curriculum developments: peace education curriculum was integrated in Social Studies, Thai Language, Arts, Career and Technology, Health and Physical Education and student development activities. 1.3. Instructional activities: student-centered activities were focused for developing conflict resolution, self-understanding, understanding other people and communication skills. 1.4 Instructional material: materials were applied to different activities. 1.5 Measurement and evaluation: behavior observation was focused. 1.6 Development / supervision / monitoring of learning: prior evaluation was used to improve teaching. 2. The main problems: lack of budgets, non-continuous working, teachers lack of knowledge of integrating peace education concept, difficulty in behavior observations and conducting of classroom action research was not done. 3. Recommendation for solving problems: raising funds from community networks, appoints steering committees, attending training courses on integrating peace education across subject area groups, involving persons participating in measurement and evaluation and promoting classroom action research.