Knowledge Management and Local Wisdom Lesson Distilled in Integration to School Curriculum on Mueang Samut Prakan District

Abstract

The objectives of this research were to 1) study knowledge management and lesson distilled local wisdom in Muang Samut Prakan District. 2) study the integration of knowledge about local wisdom in Muang Samut Prakan District to school curriculum for learning. This was qualitative research. The my group samples consisted of 10 people of local wisdom experts, including 12 wisdom, and 5 experts from supervisors, teachers, and stakeholders. The research tools was interview form. The content analysis was used to analyze qualitative data.  The results showed  that 1) most of local intellect experts of Muang Samut Prakan District were female aged 40 - 60 years old and 61 years  or more equal  and graduated in secondary school students. Most of them lived in Bang Duan. Most of their tasks required artisans’ special skills anciently inherited from generation to generation. Most of local wisdom branch was fine arts (handicrafts) and secondary level was home economics about food. Learning process and accumulated experiences differently included self-access learning, ancestor’sheritage, learning from teachers, instructors, and training. In terms of production procedures, they were not complicated but placed emphasis on easy completion and materials available in community 2) Integrating the body of knowledge about local wisdom in Muang Samut Prakan District to school curriculum  for learning to learn able to integrate with the subject group to learn Thai language in both the basic courses and additional activities to develop learners by being able to integrate into the subject matter listening  viewing and speak and  using Thai language principles at the secondary school level 1 – 3.