แนวคิดและพัฒนาการการบริหารเขตพื้นที่การศึกษา ในช่วง พ.ศ.2542 - 2554

Abstract

This independent study was set out to examine, analyze and synthesize key ideas and principles as well as developments of educational service area administration during the 1999-2011 period beginning with the unified administration of primary and secondary education in late 2002 and ending with the withdrawal of secondary education administration in mid-2010 from the educational service area office. The study was primarily of a documentary analysis nature relying on historical and contemporary data with special emphasis on the withdrawal issue and related events. The overall rationale of the withdrawal campaigns undertaken by secondary school administrators, it was discovered, revolved around the issues of incompatibility in virtually every dimension of these two levels of basic education existing together under the same administrative roof. Moreover, they claimed that the quality of secondary education had continuously deteriorated. Hence, the need to get out of the primary education personnel-dominated house. In mid-2010, the secession campaigns succeeded with the establishment of ๑๔๒ secondary education service area offices around the country. That was followed by a series of such accompanying demands as administrative structures of the new offices, selection and appointment of administrators for the new offices, etc. However, almost totally absent from post-secession discussions is the issue of declining quality used as the major reason for the withdrawal.