The Childhood all round development to support the 21st Century in Phatthalung Province

Abstract

The objectives of this action research were 1) to study the childhood all round development system to support the 21st century in Phatthalung Province 2) to evaluate the efficiency and effectiveness of childhood all round development system 3) to study the problems obstacles and the extension of the project to other districts. Population were schools and child development centers from 3 sub-districts, 1 school and 1 child health center. Quantitative sample group of children aged 30-72 months with their parents selected by purposive selection, 1 school room, 25 children and 15 child development centers. People included 120 childhood and 120 parents. collected by using a questionnaire and DENVER II Developmental Assessment. Qualitative Data were collected by interviews and focus groups, selected by purposive selection namely 10 parents, parents, 20 local administrators at district and sub-district levels, 10 teachers and child giver, and provincial and district health officials. Khuan Khanun Hospital and a sub-district health promotion hospital in Khuan Khanun District, totaling 40 people. The research results showed that childhood development was compared before and after the project implementation. The properly development in all aspects increase from 52.69% to 82.80%, suspected delayed development, decreased from 47.31% to 17.20%. Nutritional status increased from 54.84% to 60.22%. The system of childhood all round development to support 21st century is planning and systematically driving under the same goals, integrating and setting indicators according to the mission of 4 main agencies in education, public health, local government organizations at the sub-district level and family with a driving mechanism. Supervised and followed up by the Tambon Health Board. The efficiency of childhood learning management by analyzing the relationship scores of learning behavior. both before and after working on properly development There was a statistically significant correlation at the .010 and .001 levels and the effectiveness comparing the learning averages score before and after teaching according to the manual, it was found that there was a statistically significant difference at the .000 level.