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68 The Journal of the Royal Institute of Thailand Volume III - 2011 68 Redefining çThainessé: Embracing Diversity, Preserving Unity to school and loved reading and writing. The teachers were also happy and the parents were proud of their children. Figure 12: Happy time at school Two major factors that contributed to these positive results were local community support and a cooperative relationship between the schools and the community members ensuring that the projects are planned and implemented effectively. Multiple stakeholders like local scholars and artists, religious leaders, school administrators, teachers, parents, academics, and other education officials were given intensive workshops by Mahidol University to enable them to develop curriculum and teaching-learning materials which are culturally appropriate to the existing knowledge of the learners and still meet the standards set by the Thai Ministry of Education. The curriculum emphasizes meaning and understanding as 54-75_mac9 5/3/12, 10:42 PM 68