THE INNOVATION DEVELOPMENT FOR THE STUDENTS’ INTEREST ON INHERITING LANNA CULTURE AND TRADITIONAL OF ANUBAN CHIANG MAI SCHOOL

Abstract

The objectives of the research entitled: The Development of The Students’ interest on Inheriting Lanna Culture and Traditional of Anuban Chiang Mai School conducted by qualitative research were : 1) to identify the causes of lacking in inheriting Lanna Culture and Traditional, 2) to search for innovation that tackles the solutions and 3) to draw conclusions of the innovation effectiveness. The research designed with 5 steps, composed of: Step 1 Data gathering according to the actual context, Step 2 In-depth interview with 18 key informants, Step 3 Data interpretation and to draw conclusions of the causes, Step 4 Develop the innovations and try-out the innovation and Step 5 Draw conclusions whether or not the innovation effectiveness.

The results revealed that: 1) The causes of lacking in inheriting Lanna Culture and Traditional due to the advance of technology that impact to the Gen Z whom were born with technologies that parents provided for resources searching to complement their homework, such as cell phones that attached to various programs to stimulate the teen agers who are eager to learn new things while their parents and school themselves devote their carriables to fulfill the students competence on readings, writings and ignoring inheriting Lanna Culture and Traditional.  Even the school organizes the Lanna culture and tradition, but it is “just for the sake of doing”. 2)  Those of the Lanna students neither dare not to speak their own native languages nor learning Lanna Culture and Traditional. The teacher thus searched for the alternative innovative activities from theories and related researches to draw the interest of those students and found that the activities related to promoting “think out of the box”.  And 3)The teacher then implements “the think out of the box model”, starting with 1) showing the music instruments picture; 2) stimulate to imagine what of each instrument is for as well as the sound; 3) The sound of music was presented; 4) Students try to imagine the relationship between the instrument and the sound; 5) The music instruments were presented, students were allowed to freely touch and to play with the one they want to. The result from implementing the model concluded that 50% of the students interested in playing these Lanna music, 15% of them interested in producing and/or developing the instruments belonging to their ancestors and the rest of 25% prefer to sing Lanna songs. Whereas 100%