The Development of Early Childhood Activity Models to Enhance Their Analytical Thinking Using the Guardian Role-Models as the Foundation in Suratthani Province

• Main Authors: Chitaporn Iamsaard, Phatcharin Jansongsang, Saowaphak Sawangjan, Chanida Chata
• Format: Article
• Language: Thai
• Published: Mahasarakham University 2019-12-01
• Series: Journal of Education, Mahasarakham University
• Subjects: activities form; analytical thinking; early childhood; guardian role-model
• Online Access: https://edu.msu.ac.th/journal/home/journal_file/641.pdf

The purpose of this research was to develop the early childhood activities form to enhance analytical thinking using guardian role-model as the foundation in Suratthani province. There were 4 phrases as follows; Phase 1: to study and analyze basic information for developing the early childhood activities form to enhance analytical thinking, Phase 2: to design and develop the early childhood activities form, Phrase 3: to use and evaluate the early childhood activities form, and Phrase 4: to develop the activities, statistic for data analysis which were frequency, percentage, mean, standard deviation, and t - Independent. The research findings showed that 1) The development consisted of one activity manual including three parts which were Part 1: Basic information about types of the early childhood activities form, which consisted of principles and rationale, objectives, concepts and fundamental theories, target groups, core contents, procedures, duration, media and materials, implementation guidelines, roles of people involved in the use of the activities, and an evaluation of success towards the use of the activities. Part 2: activity plans which consisted of four sections and each provided 10 activities, totally included 40 activities i.e. housework activities, kitchen activities, daily activities, and hobbies and recreation activities. There were 4 steps for each activity which were Perceiving (P), Provocating (P), Performing (P), and Reflecting (R), which was also called 3PR. Part 3: Appendix including the concepts of enhancing early childhood analytical thinking showed that the model was appropriate at the highest level. 2) The results of the study showed that the post-test scores of the early childhood analytical thinking which was higher than before the study with a significance at 0.05. 3) Knowledge and abilities of the guardians in arranging activities to enhance analytical thinking of early childhood was higher than before the study. 4) The satisfaction of the guardians towards the use of the early childhood activities form showed a high level.