Abstract:
This independent study aimed to analyze the didactics, teaching strategies, and storytelling strategies of 18 stories in the didactic short film collection To Pai Mai Kong. The movie production company created these stories as a teaching material in To Pai Mai Kong (grow up with honesty) curriculum. The Department of Education of Bangkok Metropolitan Administration created To Pai Mai Kong curriculum in order to solve corruption problems in Thailand, especially for children and youths. To Pai Mai Kong curriculum consisted of 5 virtues: 1) honesty, 2) public mind, 3) fairness, 4) self-discipline and 5) sufficient lifestyle. The study indicated that the didactic short film collection To Pai Mai Kong consisted of 5 virtues: 1)honesty, 2)public mind, 3)fairness, 4)sufficient lifestyle and 5)self-discipline. The findings showed that the didactics about honesty was the most found and it focused on not lying, not deceiving and not cheating because this was the basic behavior that may cause great corruption later. For teaching strategies, the results revealed that there were 2 strategies: direct method and indirect method. The direct method included teaching through some good characters that were exemplary and through some bad characters that were guilty for their mistakes. By the indirect method, it consisted of teaching through characters that did not follow the didactics and received negative effects from their bad deeds, as well as through characters that did not follow the didactics but were still not affected by their bad deeds. The findings showed that the indirect method was the most found because there was a purpose to communicate with teenage audience, who did not like straight guiding but preferred finding the reasons by themselves. Regarding storytelling strategies, there were 2 strategies: simple storytelling and tempting storytelling. The study showed that the tempting strategies was the most found and it was divided into 2 aspects: alternate storytelling and alternate storytelling together with opinion and dream. Flashback is a strategy that can pursue audience to follow stories. Moreover, by this strategy, didactics can indirectly be inserted into the content. In conclusion, the didactic short film collection To Pai Mai Kong aimes to cultivate non-corruption to high school students. The indirect method and tempting storytelling strategy are widely used especially for the audience who are national youths, so that they have some opportunities to consider on virtues without guiding, and then follow the didactics that are norms of Thai society at present.