PEOPLE’S PARTICIPATION IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF LOCAL WISDOM: A CASE STUDY OF SONG BOK, NAKHON SI THAMMARAT PROVINCE

Abstract

     An athematic paper study aimed to 1) study the people's participation in the development of local wisdom, a case study of a Phleng Bok in Nakhon Si Thammarat (NST) Province, and 2) study the development guidelines for people's participation in the development of local wisdom: a case study of Phleng Bok in NST Province. This qualitative research collected the data using in-depth interviews with the 12 key informants selected by purposive sampling. The research tool used in this study was an in-depth interview, and data was analyzed through content analysis.

          Research findings showed that:

1. For people's participation in the development of local wisdom, it revealed that people lacked participation in the local wisdom's restoration and preservation. Global change is one of the critical factors that overshadow Thai wisdom in different fields to become the wisdom that needs the inheritors to transfer knowledge from generation to generation. It also lacked attention from the department and individual levels, causing a lack of continuity in preserving NST Pleng Bok's wisdom. The participation study must include consultation, giving knowledge, budget support, and public relations.


2. The development guidelines for people's participation in developing local wisdom included consultation, providing knowledge, supporting budgets from public and private sectors, and dispersing public relations. Local wisdom is considered a precious cultural heritage, so people's participation is essentially required, together with receiving support from all parties, to maintain and preserve the local arts of people in Nakhon Si Thammarat Province.