The Usage of ASEAN Tales as Shared Cultures Learning Media of ASEAN Community for Perception of ASEAN Citizenship of Primary Students in Ratchaburi Province

Abstract

This research aimed to: 1) study shared cultures of ASEAN Community, 2) study primary school students’ perception of ASEAN citizenship, and 3) analyze the usage of ASEAN tales as learning media for the perception of ASEAN citizenship of primary school students in Ratchaburi Province. This study was mixed-methods research. The qualitative method was used to analyze the motifs of 25 tales, and synthesize them in order to find shared cultures of ASEAN Community. In the quantitative method, 70 primary school teachers and 200 primary school students in Primary Educational Service Area (PESA) 1, Ratchaburi Province, were requested to fill out the questionnaire. The data, analyzed using descriptive statistics, were percentage, frequency, mean, and standard deviation.

The findings revealed that 1) there were 2 categories of shared cultures of ASEAN Community, which were legend motifs and lifestyle motifs, 2) the perception of ASEAN citizenship from ASEAN tales in overall was at a high level ( = 3.56, S.D. = .32) The perception of occupations was in the first rank at a high level (= 4.03, S.D. = .64) 3) the usage of ASEAN tales as learning media for the perception of ASEAN citizenship of primary school students in overall was at a high level (= 3.73, S.D. = .40) The first was the perception of learning people's lifestyles in neighboring countries from ASEAN tales (= 4.17, S.D. =.71).