The Future of Education

The research purposes for comparison the results of how using folk dance movement activities in kindergarteners in beat and attitude. The representative sample group comprises of 20 students that nonmusical from Wat Kalayanamit School in which the students are divided into 2 groups of 10 students. The tools used in this research are 1) Thai folk dance movement activity plans; 2) international folk dance movement activity plans; and 3) form of observation on folk dancing. The process of research includes the study of relevant research papers including movement in music for kindergarten and folk dance. A learning management plan is then made. Then acquired data is analyzed by content analysis and descriptive statistics, which are the mathematical mean and the standard deviation.
The research results are as follow: 1) the results of using Thai and international folk dance movement activities for kindergarteners, it is found that the total score is in the range of ‘very good’ for the group where Thai folk music in beat was used (M = 4.83, SD = .25) movement (M = 5.00, SD = .00) and the group where international folk music in beat was used (M = 4.37, SD = .42) movement (M = 4.44, SD = .40) 2) music attitude of Thai group 100 percents like folk dance but international group like folk dance only 70 percents.

Keywords: Kindergarteners, folk dance,Thai;