งานวิจัย : ผลกระทบของภาวะเศรษฐกิจปัจจุบันที่มีต่อการศึกษาเจตคติ และพฤติกรรมของประชาชนในภาคตะวันออกเฉียงเหนือ
The Impact of Economic Crisis on the Athitudes and Behaviour of People in the Northeastern Region in Relation to Education
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บทคัดย่อ ภาษาอังกฤษ

   Abstract
The purposes of this study were to find out about 1. the situation in Northeast Thailand of school dropouts or people going back to school during the economic crisis, 2. what the Northeastern Thai people studied said about their attitudes about education and their way of life before and after the economic crisis and 3.the ideas of Northeastern Thai people relating to the problems encountered and the strategies used for coping with or solving such problems.
Participants were drawn from a variety of occupational groups – owners of industries and business enterprises, farmers, people involved in the provision of services and labourers by the multi-stage random-sampling technique. Simple random sampling was used to select the provinces and quota sampling was used to assign numbers of participants for each occupational group.
Seventy-six participants were recruited from all occupational groups for focus-group discussions. Two – hundred sixteen low-income earners were recruited for interviewing by structured – interview techniques.
The data consist of both qualitative and quantitative data. The qualitative dataa were grouped according to problems the participants encountered, i.e., economic problems, educational problems and way of life during the edonomic crisis.
The quantitative data were assigned numerical values according to a rating scale and analyzed by computer for frequencies and percentages and percentages and tested by the t-test for differences involving remembered attitudes and behaviour in relation to various indicators before and after the economic crisis. There were some statistically significant differences (P<.05)

Findings
1. The results from focus group discussions indicated that participants knew of nobody who had taken children out of school. But some had had their children change schools. As for adults going back to school during the economic crisis, some participants were thinking of takiing short-course trainging. But this was not widely offered. (The potential institutional organizers faced some constraints from the crisis as well.)
However, every occupational group believed that education was the most important issue for their children’s future. They felt that it guaranteed a better life in the long run.
2. According to the participants in the focus-group discussions, there were some changes in their attitudes after the crisis. As for the data from interviewing the lower-income group, there were soe statistically-significant difference in their attitudes towards education and economic conditions before and after the crisis, as they remembered them. But there were no before-and-after- ans the participants recalled them – differences in certain beliefs, such as social, and religious values and practices.
3. Participants were grateful to have an opportumity to share their ideas and ways of coping with the crisis. They also expressed their views towards the crisis in both positive and negative terms. Positive points included having an opportunity to take a closer look at their own problems, having time to take care of their own businesses and sharing ideas with employees. Farmers started looking for beter ways to develop their methods of producing crops and managingthem. Families stayed together, spending time and sharing problems. People noticed the weaknesses in characteristics of Thai people. They thught that educational institutes played a major role in producing quality or lack of quality in the population.