A Qualitative Study of Grandparents lullaby: Wisdom of the elderly for Early Child development through Northern-Khmer Child Rearing Cultural Transmission Process in Community way of life
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The objective of this research is to study the elements of the process of transmission of the Khmer language wisdom and culture of grandparents through lullabies. Culture shows beliefs, values, morals and social aspects, lifestyle, customs, language, daily living and activities of people in the community. The qualitative study was conducted with in-depth interviews of three Northern-Khmer elders and included the study the lullaby songs of the elderly in the community of CHANGWAT SURIN.
The results of this study found that the elements of the process of cultural transfer of the elderly through lullabies include five aspects, namely 1) content, 2) knowledge transfer, 3) characteristics of the transmitters and receivers, 4) methods and media and 5) evaluation. The process of transferring culture from wisdom that we can develop for the purpose of inheritance can be of various forms of recording, such as, audio recording, video recording as well as transcription in order for preservation.
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