Development in Enhancing Social Skills Program of Non-Formal Education Youth

• Main Authors: Prasert Ruannakarn, Archanwit Choomponpongsak
• Format: Article
• Language: Thai
• Published: Mahasarakham University 2019-12-01
• Series: Journal of Education, Mahasarakham University
• Subjects: enhancing program; social skills; non-formal education youth
• Online Access: https://edu.msu.ac.th/journal/home/journal_file/645.pdf

The objectives of this study were to develop the program for social skills of non-formal education youth by 4 phases, Phase 1: Studying the states of problem, needs, and guidelines for social skills, Phase 2: Developing the program for social skills, Phase 3: Implementing the program for social skills, and Phase 4: Evaluating the program for social skills. The participants were 20 non-formal education youth and 15 stakeholders who were obtained using the purposive sampling and snowball sampling techniques. The research tools were recording forms, an interview form, a guideline form, evaluation forms, a test, and a satisfaction form. The statistics for analyzing data were mean, standard deviation and content analysis. The results were as follows:1) The states of problems of non-formal education could be ranged in descending order as drugs, affrays, and internet dangers. The need to organize activities in the program was to focus on teamwork. The guidelines for enhancing social skills required as follows: The social skills were ranged by priority as teamwork, interpersonal relationship, decision making, problem solving skills, and emotion management, 2) The program for social skills was developed by focusing on non-formal education model for learners’ behavior changed based on the Neo-Humanist concept for comprehensive humanization, 3) The results of using the program found that most of non-formal education youth had a high level of social skills as overall in all activities plans,the program was appropriate and feasible at a high level, and program efficiency was 87.78/86.05 which was higher than the criteria of 80/80, and 4) The results of the changes that occurred to the non-formal education youth indicated that the changing was in a good directions of the social skills behavior.