Enhancing Social Cohesion in the Aging Society with an Interdisciplinary Curriculum about Knowledge Integration of Local Culture to Live together in a Quality Society for Prathomsuksa 1-3 Students.

Abstract

The purposes of this research were to study needs, develop a curriculum, experiment on the curriculum, compare social coercion, and evaluate the curriculum. The research and development consisted of 4 phases. First, the needs of 49 people involved in the curriculum and culture were studied by using an interview schedule. Second, the curriculum was prepared and examined by 10 experts by group discussion. Third, the curriculum was tried out by developing 30 teachers with curriculum and supporting documents, and training 6 teachers with 100 students in a one -group pre - posttest design.  Fourth, the curriculum was evaluated with teachers and 106 students by using an assessment form. The data were analyzed by using mean, standard deviation, and T-test. The results showed that the curriculum was necessary due to family changes and social studies, but learning subject areas had little relevant content focusing on measuring knowledge. The curriculum consisted of name, code, class, subject group, credits, time, leadership, vision, principles, aims, performance, desirable characteristics, structure, course description. learning outcomes, content, class time, activity management guidelines, learning resources, measurement and evaluation. The efficiency of the curriculum was 83.22/87.53, and the overall and individual satisfaction was at a high level. The students’ satisfaction after using the curriculum was significantly higher than before at the 0.01 level. Both the overall and individual aspects were at a high level.