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Abstract- This study presents the Kluai Tanao Si Song Project as an innovative model of community-based learning integrating music composition, local knowledge, and cultural sustainability in Suan Phueng District, Ratchaburi Province, Thailand. Kluai Tanao Si—a unique local banana variety—represents both biological and cultural heritage, symbolizing the community’s deep connection with nature through agriculture, cuisine, and folk traditions. The project aimed to preserve and revitalize this local wisdom by transforming it into a creative educational process. Using a Participatory Action Research (PAR) framework, teachers, students, and community members collaboratively explored the cultural knowledge surrounding Kluai Tanao Si and reinterpreted it through songwriting, performance, and digital media. The resulting composition functioned as both an aesthetic artifact and a pedagogical tool, demonstrating how music can serve as a living knowledge system that captures, transmits, and revitalizes indigenous wisdom. The project drew upon multiple theoretical perspectives—Aesthetics of Music (Hanslick; Scruton), Music for Learning (Swanwick; Campbell), Experiential and Transformative Learning (Kolb; Mezirow), and Knowledge Management (Davenport & Prusak)—to explain how musical experience enhances perception, memory, co-creation, and knowledge sharing. Findings revealed that the project fostered students’ creativity, communication, collaboration, and critical thinking while promoting pride in local identity, social cohesion, and awareness of biodiversity. Aligned with UNESCO’s frameworks of Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) and the 2003 Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage, it also supports the Royal Plant Genetic Conservation Project initiated by Her Royal Highness Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn. Overall, the Kluai Tanao Si Song Project exemplifies how arts-integrated, community-based pedagogy can unite creativity, culture, and sustainability to advance inclusive and meaningful education.

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