Educational Leadership and Managing PM2.5 Dust Crisis in Bangkok, Thailand

Abstract

The objective of researching educational leadership and managing PM2.5 dust crisis in Bangkok, Thailand, is to study the cause of PM2.5 in the context of being Bangkok area and to study the educational leadership in managing the education to reduce the PM2.5 dust crisis in Bangkok. This is a qualitative research. The sample group consisted of scholars of environment, those responsible for preventing air pollution, educational administrators and administrators of educational institutions in Bangkok and its vicinity. Collecting data by in-depth interview. From the study it is found that: 1) The cause of PM2.5 dust crisis in Bangkok consists of 4 factors: Dust source, weather conditions at that time, area conditions of Bangkok and the condition of Bangkok being a metropolis. 2) Educational management to reduce PM2.5 dust crisis in Bangkok, in the short term phrase, is to set up learning management plan based on the levels of air polluted crisis. From the level of managing the learning in schools to the learning management at home in the case of temporarily closing of the school. 3) Educational management to reduce PM2.5 dust crisis in Bangkok, in the long term phrase, is, setting up curriculum, courses of educational management of various crises and ways to change the crisis into opportunities. Organizing activities that shows the relationship between people and the environment, to become the world protective citizen in the future. 4) The use of educational leadership in educational management to reduce PM2.5 dust in Bangkok, is to use the situational leadership, transformation leadership and educational management leadership in crisis situations.