The purpose of this descriptive study was to examine Pongpaiboons portrayal of three major topics as found in his series of poetry entitled Kang Klong Kanna Yao: Thai governments performances Thai politicians and political leaders and social issues emanating from contemporary Thai politics. The three major findings are summarized as follows: As for Thai governments perfonnances it was found that the government had invested much of its effort in maintaining its status quo thus revealing nothing but strong self-interest; therefore its other main mission of solving peoples problems still remains secondary in importance. From 2005 to 2008 Thailand was faced with political instability emanating from the coup de grace brought fought by General Sondhi Bunyaratklin. This led to the successive incapable caretaker governments because those who were more capable had been denied the political platfonn. Concerning Thai politicians and political leaders it turned out that Pongpaiboon had represented them in a negative light pointing out that most if not all of them were non-sympathizers engaging in politics for personal gains at the expense of good governance. Many of them abused their authority resulting in rampant corruption both at the policy and practical levels. The poetry also made it clear that fonner Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra must stop his wayward behavior that will only demoralize the political atmosphere. As far as social issues emanating from contemporary Thai politics it was found that the press has been harassed so blatantly that it becomes lopsided in its coverage. This culminated in the political unrest by the citizens to force Thaksin Shinawatra to step down. Further there was a more intense political tunnoil as exemplified by the April 2nd general election. This was exacerbated by another incident taking place on January 1st 2007 in which the author vehemently encouraged Thai constituents to vote NO in justifying the Constitution of 2007. All these were the dire consequences of the lingering political instability of the country.

The objective of this research was to compare the study achievement on Thai Government and Politics of Higher Technical Certificate students of Rajamangala Institute of Technology Poh Chang Art Campus based on the teaching techniques. The total of 49 Poh Chang art students of the 2nd Semester 2002 academic year were simple random sampled and then randomly divided into 2 grcJps; 20 students for the experimental group and the rest for controlled one. The learning-centered teaching technique was used for the experimental group whereas the standard teaching technique was for the other. This research was nonrandomized control group pretest-posttest design. The research tool were the measurement for study achievement teaching plan of StudentTeams-Achievement division: STAD) and the group observation form for collecting the qualitative and quantitative data. Statistics applied for quantitative data analysis was ANCOVA (One-Way Analysis of Covariance) with the pretest score as the covariate. Interpretation was used for qualitative data analysis. The findings revealed that 1.There was a significant difference between the study achievement of the students at the level of 0.05 based on teaching techniques. 2.The experimental group had a better team working performance.