The Development of Overt Curriculum with Northern Region Higher Education Network to Enhance Teacher Empowerment in Elementary Schools

Abstract

In B.E. 2566, Thailand started its development by defining the country framework in the long run which plans for different sectors to be coherent with the target according to the 20-Year National Strategy. Under the direction of the Constitution of the Kingdom of Thailand (B.E. 2560) section 65, the state should set out a national strategy as a goal for the sustainable development of the country under the principle of good governance to be used as a framework for formulating consistent and integrated plans in a congruous force to achieve such goal by the strategy of Human Capital Development for creating a livable society and learning revolution. In this article, the author proposed a northern region higher education network to enhance teacher empowerment in elementary schools following the situation scenario in the northern region of Thailand with physical education as 1 of 8 learning areas for basic education of the Ministry of Education which affects knowledge, skill, competency and attribute development direction of learner from kindergarten to long life learning. Physical Education learning system could be the response to 21^st-century change by context, the role of higher education network, teacher empowerment, and scenario in the public, private, municipality, and higher education for continuing in policy and strategy of human resource development following the resolution of the national strategy