Development of Local Wisdom Learning Resources Administrative Management based on the Sufficiency Economy Philosophy Principle in Dhonburi District Community
The objectives of this research were to 1) study the local wisdom learning resources in Dhonburi District community 2) study the situation and problem the local wisdom learning resources usage contributed to the educational of institutions 3) study the development of Guidelines for Local Wisdom Learning Resources Administrative Management based on the sufficiency economy philosophy principle in Dhonburi District community. The respondents employed in this research included 1) 44 local experts in wisdom application based on the sufficiency economy philosophy 2) 40 administrative and community leaders and 3) 50 people selected from school administrators, teachers and education supervisors. The research tools included interviewing forms and the focus group discusstoin. Data had been analyzed by content analysis. The results indicated that: 1) local wisdom mostly were female, aged 61 years up and graduated from elementary school or lower, they lived in Bangyiruea sub district. Most of their works made from skills and experiences that had been inherited from generations to generations. Learning process and experience were varied such as self-learning, cultural heritage from families, learned from teachers and learned from training. Production process was not complicated, they focused on simply production and used local materials 2) the conditions of local wisdom usage were either had been invited to teach at school or students learned at local wisdom providers’ house. There were diverse learning groups which had learnt both inside and outside classroom. Problem were lack of funding, expatriate or close down of business 3) the development of administrative management were to appoint responsible agency who responsible for collecting local wisdom by inviting stakeholders to work together and make profiles of the local wisdom among Dhonburi District in term of knowledge management, published such local wisdom information as CDs, books or documents distributed to public. Moreover, local wisdom information should be published on website with the responsible agencies along with provided training to students therefore such students can provided information to interested persons, set up local wisdom exhibition in every year or every semester. Finally school administrators should have a policy to promote local wisdom programs among schools seriously and also published in public media, as well.