Development of a Training Package of ‘Move-Still’ Buddhist Mindfulness Meditation Practice to Enhance Learning Achievement of Prathomsuksa 4-6 Students

Abstract

The objectives of this study were to 1) develop a training package of ‘Move-Still’ Buddhist mindfulness meditation practice and 2) examine the effect of using the training package on learning achievement of Prathomsuksa 4-6 students. The findings showed that the students from the control group who were taught through training package had a higher learning achievement level after the training than before with a mean of at the 0.5 level of significance. The learning achievement of the experimental group and the control group was compared. The mean between the students from the experimental group and the control group was not significantly different at the 0.05 level. The results of performance skills during the overall training were high (  =3.38). When considering a single item of the evaluation, the items with the highest mean were 12-15 (  = 3.35) and the item with the lowest mean was 1 (  =3.25). The results indicated that the ‘Move- Still’ Buddhist mindfulness meditation practice, one of Buddhist codes of meditation practice, which was applied for a guideline for the teaching and learning process in order to enhance learning achievement, can be used as an alternative method of teaching and learning to develop learners to initiate their knowledge. It also was a way to disseminate Buddhist codes of practice to a young generation so that they know and understand Buddhist codes.