Abstract:
The Objectives of this research were to: 1. Analytically study the general context and problems of the child center management, 2. study the Buddhist principles Integration for the child center management and 3. Propose a model for child center management according to buddhist principles.
Methodology was mixed methods between the qualitative and qualitative researches. The quantitative research collected data with questionnaires from 347 samples, derived from 2,633 populations using Taro Yamanes formula, analyzed data with the descriptive statistics; frequency, percentile, mean and standard deviation. The qualitative research collected data by two steps; step one, from 20 key informants, purposefully selected from experts. The tool used to collect data was the structured in-depth-interview scripts collecting data by face to face interviewing, step two, data were collected by Delphi technique with 3 round data collection, selecting questions with quartile ranges from 3.50 and inter-quartile range lower than 1.50 and data were analyzed by descriptive interpretation.
The findings were as follows:
1) The Child Center got support from local administrative organizations and general public in management process, consisting of planning, daily activities, learning experiences enhancing, good friendship activities and personnel management to meet standard of the Child Centers and evaluation in line with educational development plan. The general context and problems the Child center
were that the budget supported from local administrative organizations and local people was not sufficient. But such problems were solved by the support from local administrative organizations and general public in order to manage the Child Development Center to meet the set target.
2) Concepts, theories and Buddhist Principles to manage the center were concepts, theories, planning, organizing staffing, leadership and evaluation which could be integrated with Tisikkha: Sila, precept, Samadhi, concentration and Panna wisdom to integrate with the management of the Child Center in the areas of physical structure, life experience activities, learning-teaching, atmosphere, relations and management By this way the Child Center would be the center for good behavior, good mind, wisdom, knowledge, understanding and reasons according to the Buddhist Principles.
3) Delphi experts indicated that the management of the Child Centers should update the quality of participatory planning management should be practical and measurable, covering the physical, emotion, mental, social and wisdom. It should up¬grade the capacities of organizations as well as that of personnel with new technology creating confidence, systematic motivation and participation with new, modern and efficiency proposed model for the child center according to Buddhadhamma was to up-grade the quality of participatory planning that was practical and manageable in reality, consisting of physical, emotional, mental social and intellectual development, including effective organizational and personnel management with new technology, development of the effective, balanced, stable, sustainable and could actually solve the problems according to Buddhist Principles.