Somkit Saenboonsiri, Boonsom Yodmalee and Sastra Lao-Akka
The Faculty of Cultural Science, Mahasarakham University, Khamriang
Sub-District, Kantarawichai District, Maha Sarakham Province, Thailand
ssaenboonsiri225@gmail.com
Date Received: August 16, 2015; Date Revised: October 4, 2015
Asia Pacific Journal of Multidisciplinary Research
Vol. 3 No. 4, 74-77
November 2015 Part II
P-ISSN 2350-7756
E-ISSN 2350-8442
Conserving and developing folktales for promoting virtue and ethics of children and youths in the Isan region 506 KB 2 downloads
Somkit Saenboonsiri, Boonsom Yodmalee and Sastra Lao-Akka The Faculty of Cultural...
The findings indicate that the background of folktales of each research area comes from the application of Buddhist philosophy. One folktale told in many versions depends on who the narrator is. The centers of folktales are monasteries and they are always told by monks and the elderly. The main difficulties are a lack of folktale narrators, the majority of children and youths do not know folktales in depth, and many folktales are lost because they are not perpetuated by the present generation. As for the conservation and the development of folktales, all sectors in society should cooperate in these affairs, such as establishing folktale museums in the Isan region, integrating them in school curriculums of all levels and holding folktale telling competitions throughout the region. These folktales benefit the development of virtue and ethics of children and youths in the Isan region and other regions of Thailand.
Keywords – Conservation, development, folktales, Isan region.