Needs Assessment for School Curriculum Development about Water Resources Management: A Case Study of Nam Phong Basin
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摘要
Needs assessment is an important stage of both curriculum development and school curriculum development. Thus needs assessment inform important information and decisions for school curriculum to develop awareness and sense of responsibility for protecting water resources. Presently, the schools in Namphong basin area are lack of curriculum about how to manage water in their school. The objective of this study is to do content need of water resources management: a case study of Nam Phong basin by using survey study. This study used existing data from key informants; community leaders, school committees, administrators, teachers, and students, in schools at Khon Kaen area region 4. Data collection employed by focus group discussion. A collective review of study results include the content analysis and Interpretation: inductive conclusion. The needs were ranked in order via compare frequency. The research findings found that school curricula should have content about Water Resources Management including: 1) awareness of water resources management of students 2) skills of teachers in creating unit of water contents 3) skills of teachers in integration of water resources management contents. Thus the need of School Curriculum Development about Water Resources Management of Nam Phong basin is: Development on awareness of water resources management of students.