Abstract:
The purposes of this research were to compare moral behaviors of early childhood by storytelling using pretest and post-test and study its influencing effects to moral behaviors and explore how to promote moral behaviors of early childhood continually. The researcher used the secondary data provided by the Office of the Education Council, Ministry of Education to study based on one group pretest-posttest design and used in-depth interview to explain the results of storytelling to promote moral behaviors. The samples were 69 early childhood who study in child development centers in Ranong province. Descriptive statistics and Dependent Sample T-test were used in analyzing and comparing quantitative data, whereas Content Analysis was used in analyzing qualitative data. The results from the pre-experimental research revealed that 1) the post-test moral behavior scores were higher than the pretest in all 3 categories (p < .001): self‒control scores increased the most, followed by kindness and self-reliance, respectively; 2) other influencing effects to moral behaviors consisted of individual and environment factors and; 3) the teacher and guardian promoted moral behaviors by raising questions to arouse learning in children; reward and punishment; teaching by consistent repetition; good modelling for children and setting up the joint agreement. The findings of the study suggested that Educational agencies, families and educators who teach in child development program should foster and create relaxing atmosphere by using story based teaching method on good moral behaviors constantly for encouraging sentiment, thinking processes, coexistence with others and promoting moral behaviors continuously.