DEVELOPMENT AND ENHANCEMENTS OF COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION USING CULTURAL INNOVATIONS ACCORDING OF THAI CLASSICAL DANCE PERFORMANCE SET "KHANOM JEEN BAN PRADOK TAMRAP MUEN WAI" TO THE CREATIVE ECONOMIC IDEA TO PROMOTE TOURISM OF MUEN WAI COMMUNITY, NAKHON RATCHASIMA

Abstract

    Creativity opens the opportunity of community in order to use local resources, efficiently. This mix-method research aimed to develop and encourage participations of the community using cultural innovations to promote tourism and transfer knowledge of cultural innovations dramatic performances set “Khanom Jeen Ban Pradok Tamrap Muen Wai” for the community in Muen Wai area, Nakhon Ratchasima Province. A target group was selected using purposive and voluntary sampling method divided into 2 groups: an informant group of 2 people, and a dancing art participant of 53 people. The instrument used were structural interviews and questionnaires with a consistency index between 0.80 -1.00. Data were collected using interviews, large focus group, workshop, publication of performance, and assessments. Content analysis was used with the creative dancing art principle and analyzed using descriptive statistics for data analysis. The results of the study were as follows: 7 keystones for the enhancement of community participations, 7 processes for the creative development of cultural innovations, and 7 components for the dancing art creative design. For transferring knowledge using cultural services by the community were organized by publicizing activities according to local annual festivals, and were satisfied by spelling out numbers zero through one hundred using knowledge utilizations. These knowledge transfer indicated to the co-creation for cultural tourism route using art work integrations to being an identity from local wisdoms getting it seen to public and adding economic values in area-based level.