Model of Environmental Education Strategy Integrated with Traditional Knowledge for Primary School Administrator

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Pradit Budtarach
Nongnapas Thiengkamol
Tanarat Koowaranyoo Thiengkamol

Abstract

The research objective was to develop a casual relationship model of exogenous latent variables of traditional knowledge for environmental conservation, administrator characteristics, teacher characteristics and environmental education principle that effected environmental education strategy use through inspiration of public mind for environmental conservation. Population was primary school administrator under educational area of Maha Sarakham 1-3. The questionnaire was employed to collect sample by simple random sampling of 400 primary school administrators. It had IOC of 0.50 with reliability of 0.992. Structural Equation model (SEM) was used for model verification.


The results revealed that the structural model of confirmatory factors of Traditional Knowledge for Environmental Conservation (TEC), Administrator Characteristics (AC), Teacher Characteristics (TC) and Environmental Education Principle (EE) were able to explain the variation of endogenous factors of Inspiration of Public Mind for Environmental Conservation (IPM) that caused Environmental Education Strategy Use (EES) with 83.00 percent.  The variable that had the most effect to EES was IPM with effect 0.65. Moreover, confirmatory factors of TEC, AC, TC and EE were able to explain the variation of confirmatory factors of IPM) with 88.00 percent. The factor that had the most effect to IPM was EE with the effect of 0.93. The indices of Chi-Square value/df = 1.274 (<5), GFI and AGFI > 0.90, RMSEA and RMR<0.05 and critical number = 276.31 (> 200) indicated that the developed model was congruent to empirical data.

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Budtarach, P., Thiengkamol, N., & Thiengkamol, T. K. (2015). Model of Environmental Education Strategy Integrated with Traditional Knowledge for Primary School Administrator. Journal of Industrial Education, 14(2), 711–718. Retrieved from https://ph01.tci-thaijo.org/index.php/JIE/article/view/122629
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