Local Wisdom Inquiry to Enhancement of Knowledge-Based Society according to the Philosophy of Sufficiency Economy for Developing Quality of Sustainable Life in Special Development Zone of Southern Border Provinces

Abstract

The research entitled “Local Wisdom Inquiry to Enhancement of Knowledge-Based Society according to the Philosophy of Sufficiency Economy for Developing Quality of Sustainable Life in Special Development Zone of Southern Border Provinces” aims to study of study the characteristics of local wisdom learning process and inheriting local wisdom, including the development of learning processes and behaviors for the inheritance of local wisdom and create a database to expand local wisdom through the network of educational institutions through the participation of community partners and networks. The target groups are: 1) representatives of the Subdistrict Administrative Organization, 2) Educational Service Area Office, District 3, Songkhla, 3) school directors, 4) teachers and students, 5) school committees, 6) community leaders, 7) community developers and knowledgeable people or elders in the community, and 8) folk philosophers or wisdom teachers in the community, which were collected using in-depth interviews and focus group discussions. The results of the research revealed that communities in the four districts of the southern border special development zone of Songkhla Province has cultural costs. Local wisdom is diverse. Wisdom in food, medicine, herbs, agriculture, and weaving emphasising on self-sufficiency according to the Sufficiency Economy Philosophy. There is a process of learning and inheriting local wisdom from generation to generation through ancestors. Most of them involve the transfer of knowledge and wisdom from generation to generation through kinship society, such as mothers passing them on to their children and grandchildren, promoting lifelong learning. and community organizations, and create a database and extending local wisdom through a network of educational establishments.