ACTIVITIES ARRANGEMENT CULTIVATING AWARENESS OF THAINESS TO STUDENTS STUDYING AT SCHOOL IN PHRAE PROVINCE

Abstract

There are three purposes for this research; first, to survey the level of awareness of  Thainess of the students; second, to set up a program to cultivate awareness of Thainess third, to assess the results of the program in changing their. awareness of Thainess The population of the study are students in 2 schools that are participating in the HM King Bhumibhol’s “Creating Good Citizen for the Country” project in Phare province, namely, The Ban Wangliang School of the 2nd Primary School District, and the Saloi Seri Wittaya School of the 37th Secondary School District.  The research tool is a questionnaire to assess the students’ Thainess awareness on 16 subjects totaling 80 items.  The data were analyzed using Means and Standard Deviations.

            The research found that; 1) The students have a high level of awareness of Thainess with the religious awareness are the highest follows by Thai food, the Monarchy, The Nation, Thai Democracy, Language, Thai Values, and Thai Culture and Tradition respectively. 2) There are two stages in the training program.  In the first stage, focusing on active participation from the students in sharing their ideas and knowledges to derive at their own answer and to present their answers. They were encouraged to use their imagination involves group creative thinking and using various types of media in searching for ideas and knowledge.  In the second stage, they were required to go through the 4 self-study bases using the think-pair-share method in order to summarizing individual and group ideas from the 4 bases. 3) The post-training survey shows that their overall awareness of Thainess are in the high level in particular in the four areas of Thai foods, Thai characters and behaviors, Language usages, and Thai values respectively.  Their awareness of Thai wisdoms are in the middle level.