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ORIGINAL RESEARCH article
Front. Educ.
Sec. Higher Education
Volume 10 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/feduc.2025.1487560
This article is part of the Research TopicExploring the Psychology of Vocational Education: From the Perspective of Literacy Promotion - Volume IIView all 6 articles
School Supportiveness and Innovative Abilities in Vocational Education: The Mediating Role of Motivation to Innovate among Vocational Teachers
Provisionally accepted
Pongwat Fongkanta*
Fisik Sean Buakanok- Lampang Rajabhat University, Lampang, Thailand
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Creativity and innovation have become essential elements for vocational teachers to drive educational advances. To gain an insight into vocational teachers’ innovative capabilities, this study aims to explore their capabilities and compare them across the level of classes they teach. Furthermore, a causal model was developed and validated to investigate their innovative to employ with vocational teachers in Northern Thailand. We utilized data from a cross-sectional survey of 560 vocational teachers to estimate and validate a causal model by using AMOS (Analysis of Moment Structures). The result revealed that the overall innovative capability levels were high. There were statistically significant differences across class levels of teaching. Ultimately, the causal model demonstrated a good fit to the data and demonstrated the innovation had a significant mediating effect between school supportiveness and innovation.
Keywords: Innovative ability, school supportiveness, Motivation, vocational teacher, Mediating role
Received: 28 Aug 2024; Accepted: 18 Apr 2025.
Copyright: © 2025 Fongkanta and Buakanok. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
* Correspondence: Pongwat Fongkanta, Lampang Rajabhat University, Lampang, Thailand
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