Research & Article

The purpose of this Mixed Methods research were as following: (1) To study Thai massage curriculum national health cultural heritage (2) To study the model of Thai massage teachers national health cultural heritage (3) to study the invention of Thai massage postures national health cultural heritage Collecting data in 4 steps as follows: (1) study research collect theoretical information and related research (2) analyze the situation and create interview forms and questionnaires (3) collect data and experimental model to study the problematic condition of the Thai massage curriculum Thai massage teachers and develop a draft model Thai massage postures (4) data analysis summary discussion and suggestions.

The results of the research revealed that (1) Thai massage curriculum teaching at present has several levels of teaching all courses offered must be certified by (1.1) Department of Health Service Support there are 13 courses that were standardized (1.2) Thai Traditional Medicine Council there were the course in applied Thai traditional medicine Thai traditional medicine Thai traditional medicine certificate and a Thai traditional medicine assistant (2) From answering the questionnaire of 30 most of them were female (67.00%) they were satisfied with massage with an average ( x̅ ) = 3.46 which was in the moderate level (3) Developing personnel to become role model teachers in Thai massage to raise the standards of Thai massage to international standards development of existing teacher personnel and the new generation of personnel to have desirable characteristics to be the identity of model teachers teacher personnel must adjust in teaching to be in line with the current situation and up-to-date all the time.