LEARNING ORGANIZATION THROUGH INTEGRATING SCIENCE WITH THE WAY OF LIFE TO ENHANCE SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE TRANSFERRING ABILITY OF PRIMARY LEVEL MUSLIM STUDENTS

Hanida Mohming¹ and Pongsak Pankaew²*
¹ A Student of Doctor of Education degree, Faculty of Education, Chiangmai University, Thailand
E-mail: hada1234@hotmail.com
² Advisor, Asst. Prof. Dr., Faculty of Education, Chiangmai University, Thailand
E-mail: p.pankaew@hotmail.com
*Corresponding author

Abstract
The context of the three southern border provinces of Thailand is a society which is remarkable in religion, language, and culture. The majority people are Muslim. As a result, education in that area focuses on religion in parallel with normal education without an integration of disciplinary. This is not the answer to proper education which requires integration of all aspects to learners’ way of life. According to Islamic, there must be an integration of religious academic with normal academic in education (secular). Muslims must study the Holy Quran and other subjects along with Islamic disciplines.

This research aimed to develop the lesson plan to promote the ability to transfer scientific knowledge of Muslim students and to study their ability to transfer knowledge of science. The populations were obtained by purposive sampling of 4-6 grade students (N=30) who studying in Science Club’s Activities in the first semester of the academic year 2016. The research instrument was 1) an analysis of the consistency of the texts in the Holy Quran, which is associated with the concepts and scientific principles 2) lesson plans an integrated science to promote the ability to transfer scientific knowledge of Muslim students and 3) the ability to transfer scientific knowledge test. The statistics used for analyzing the collected data were mean, standard deviation and percentage.

The research finding was as follows: 1) the results of analyzing the consistency of the texts in the Quran that is associated with the concepts and scientific principles. The point corresponding to a unit of 6 learning units 21 lesson plan. 2) The students’ ability to transfer scientific knowledge after taught by the integrated science lesson plan was higher than the 75 percent criteria. The average stays at a good level.

Keywords: Science Learning, Knowledge Transfer, Muslim way of life, 3 southern border of Thailand