The Participatory Development of Extra-Curricular Activities on Cultural Skills for Teachers at Ban Buenae Pi Yae School, Narathiwat Province

Abstract

This action research has the following objectives: 1) Develop a participatory process for creating supplementary cultural skills activities for teachers at Ban Buenae Pi Yae School, Narathiwat Province. 2) Examine the outcomes of developing these participatory supplementary activities to enhance teachers' cultural skills. And 3) Study the mechanisms for implementing these outcomes within the school. The participants include nine teachers, one school administrator, and ten parent representatives from Ban Buenae Pi Yae School, selected using a purposive sampling approach. The research utilized various tools such as a participatory process, group interviews, assessments of teachers' participatory process skills, assessments of supplementary activity development using a participatory process, and evaluations of teacher satisfaction with the participatory process. The findings include the six-step participatory process development: joint analysis, joint design, joint development, joint implementation, joint evaluation, and joint result expansion (scale-up). The outcomes indicate that teachers created high-quality plans for supplementary activities, developed participatory process skills. Mechanisms for expanding results included HALIM mechanisms: effective listening (Hearing), Analysis, collaborative learning (Learning Together), Implementation, and Management.