Development of Guidelines, Educational Resources from Local Wisdom, Arts and Culture in Na Fai Subdistrict Administration Organization, Mueang District, Chaiyaphum Province

Abstract

This research has two important objectives. 1) To study the classification of art and culture information from local wisdom according to folklore principles. 2) To apply the principles of folklore to promote and preserve cultural learning resources from local wisdom in Na Fai subdistrict, Mueang district, Chaiyaphum province. The population was the people from 19 villages who lived in Na Fai Subdistrict. The samples divided into 2 groups. The first group consisted of 72 local wisdom, and the second group consisted of 10 key villagers. The second group did the SWOT analysis the strengths, weakness, opportunities, and threats. The research instruments were a structured interview and focus group discussion. The data were collected from an interview. The results reveal that the information classification using Dorson’s principles of folklore theory had four main groups. The guidelines for promoting and conserving art and culture learning resource was to provide the place to establish the art and culture learning resource to transfer the knowledge to the people who are interested in and publish the application of the principles of folklore to conserve and support local villagers  income.