Development of School-Based Curriculum:Thai Local Government for Social Studies Religionsand Culture Content Standard in Mattayom 4-6A Case Study in Theeparatpittaya School, Surattani Province

Abstract

The objectives of this research was to develop the school-based
curriculum on Thai local government in the subject group of social studies,
religion and culture for Mathayomsuksa 4 – 6 students of Theeparatpittaya
School, Suratthani and to audit the quality of the developed school-based
curriculum. The population or sample was 30 stakeholders, involved in
the development process. The research instruments were an interview
form and a questionnaire for the stakeholders. Data was analyzed by
content analysisin order to create the school-based curriculum. It was
audited by five experts using arithmetic mean (μ) and variance (σ).
The research results showed that the structure of the developed
school-based curriculum consisted of 3 learning units: 1. History of Thai
Governance, 2. Pattern of Local Governance, and 3. People Participation
in Local Governance. The contents of the developed school-based
curriculum were consecutively arranged in the easy-to-difficult sequence,
which could be used in drafting the curriculum, including 13 components.
The quality of the curriculum was at a high level with an average of 4.21