The integration of folk wisdom and the names of the villages into teaching Thai

Abstract

Folk wisdom is considered the cultural heritages, inherited from ancestors
and resulted from their intuition, intelligence, and collection of experiences. The folkwisdom is considered the knowledge of the local, established in order to solve or dealwith problems on a daily basis. This study was aimed to study cultural instructions pertaining to folk wisdoms, using the concept of experiential learning. The participants of the study were grade 9 students in Na Bua Wittaya School, Muang District, Surin Province, Thailand. The results suggest that the integration of village’s names and Thai instruction, having students go on a field trip to different local villages to study folk wisdoms, was considered the means designed by the instructor to bring students for a field trip. That is, students had the chance to expose to the real contexts and to learn the folk wisdoms from the local people including...