The Design of Muay Thai Dance Using the Moderate Class, More Knowledge Activity for Sixth Grade Students

Abstract

The purposes of this study were as follows: (1) to create a class activity at a Moderate Level               by using Thai boxing dance activities to develop creativity, indigenous knowledge and physical fitness; and (2) to compare the differences in the activities which aim to develop creativity, awareness of the indigenous knowledge and physical fitness. The samples consisted of fifteen twelve-year-old students from Wat Phrayatikaram School in Phranakhon Si Ayutthaya province, who participated in the moderate Thai Boxing Dance class and more knowledge activity. This study had a group experimental research design which was analyzed using a t-test and standard deviation (SD). The results of the study were as follows: (1) the Moderate Thai boxing dance activity which was performedeleven  times in total, took sixty minutes  each time, was able to develop creativity, awareness of indigenous knowledge and physical fitness, all at an  appropriaterate; (2) the results of the data analysis comparing pre-activity to post-activity in terms of creativity were 6.40 and 15.93, awareness of indigenous knowledge was at  8.73 and 14.20, and in terms of physical fitness was higher than the pre-activity. The results revealed that the average scone after the moderate level Thai Boxing Dance activities Lada statistically significant level of .01 and higher than the average, before doing Moderate hai Boxing Danceactivity.