Abstract
Background: Youth dormitory management in Thailand’s education system reveals evidence of discrimination. This is due to the high deviation in educational policy in aspects such as high cost or budget of educational management with dormitory provision in some programmes, when compared to the lower number of youth who receive the benefits of these programmes. Moreover, some programmes are not fair in the selection criteria and had the objectives that responded only to a specific group of population. Objective: The objectives of the study were to implement a group intervention programme in life skills development for youth in highland rural school dormitories of Omkoi District, Chiang Mai Province, Thailand. Methods: This study used a qualitative research method to recruit and select 30 participants. Semi-structured interviews with open-ended questions were used to collect data from the participants. The thematic analysis method was used for analysing the collected data. Results: The findings revealed three themes: 1. The result of analysing and synthesising the context, 2. the result of developing the model, and 3. the result of the life skills development activity programme for youth who lived in the school dormitories. Conclusion: Further studies would be required in order to compare the situation between rural and urban areas. Furthermore, youth life skills development programmes should be developed in the appropriate contexts. Moreover, the researcher must pay more attention to the society and culture of the target audience in order to achieve development that would be consistent with the area.
Highlights
Educational situation in Thailand showed the highest number of rural poverty [1 - 3], which means more variety and more discrimination
The findings revealed three themes: 1. The result of analysing and synthesising the context, 2. the result of developing the model, and 3. the result of the life skills development activity programme for youth who lived in the school dormitories
Step 3 – Testing and evaluation of the model by means of selecting two target areas for the experiment with activities developed using the model, as well as by monitoring the results after implementing the model, so to review and summarise the operation’s results, to understand the problems and issues of the development model found from the experimental areas, and present policy-based recommendations for implementing the development model as a pilot model. This was done in order to further expand the programme to other areas of a similar context in the vicinity, where the ultimate result would be the reduction of inequality and the elevation of the quality of education of youth who lived in the school dormitories in the highland areas, which comprised a population in a specialised context whose requirements were somewhat different from youth of general schools
Summary
This study used a qualitative research method to recruit and select 30 participants. Semi-structured interviews with open-ended questions were used to collect data from the participants. The thematic analysis method was used for analysing the collected data
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