The Potential of Knowledge and Local Wisdom Management for Learning in Lan Khoi Sub-district Community, Pa Phayom District, Phatthalung Province

Abstract

The objectives of this research were 1) to survey and collect the data of local wisdom of Ban Lan Khoi Community, Lan Khoi Sub-district, Pa Phayom District, Phatthalung Province. and 2) to study the potential of knowledge and local wisdom management as learning sources for the community, educational institutions, and tourists. To obtain the data, tourists and local people were the sources and 110 of the samples were collected through both the in-depth interview and group discussion. The findings were as follows. 1) The local herbs, curry paste, shadow puppet plays, Lan Khoi hand-woven clothes, and lathe wood handicrafts were the local wisdom of Ban Lan Khoi Community. 2) The community had a potential leader and its strength of tourism management, having the uniqueness of diverse local wisdom. The management of knowledge and local wisdom lacked both obvious concreteness and clear patterns: lack of media creation for promoting appropriate body of knowledge, lack of relating local wisdom to tourist activities; and lack of management of knowledge and local wisdom as learning sources for the community, educational institutions, and tourists. The knowledge transfer of the community only focused on site visit groups, not on the youths of the community. The suggestions for developing the community were to create a variety of media for promoting appropriate knowledge to site visit individuals and local youths.

Keywords

• potential
• knowledge management
• local wisdom
• learning