LEARNING MANAGEMENT FOR COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT BY VOLUNTARY MIND ON SUSTAINABLE WATER MANAGEMENT THROUGH LIVING WEIR

Abstract

          This research aimed to 1) study the learning management for community empowerment through volunteer mind 2) create a learning management model for participatory community empowerment through volunteer in sustainable water management and 3) experiment with learning management for community empowerment by volunteer mind on sustainable water management through living weir. This study was a research and development. Questionnaires, interview forms, satisfaction survey, sub-group meeting and process of public understanding were applied for data collection. Simple sampling method was employed for 350 samples which consisted of administrators, teachers, personnel, local politicians and students from 7 faculties. The data were analyzed by frequency, percentage, mean, standard deviation and content analysis.
          The study found that:
          Learning management by focusing on learners was important which deal with integration of interdisciplinary content learning as a volunteer-based project, designing learning activities to stimulate learners to raise their awareness of local love and applying philosophy of sufficiency economy for living.
           The learning management model for community empowerment through volunteer mind in water management had five main steps: 1) inspiration 2) sparkling idea 3) problem study 4) propose of volunteer project and 5) action.
           The results of the 350 samples’ satisfaction survey on the experimental model of community empowerment learning through participatory volunteer in sustainable water management by living weir was at 4.19 level in average, the highest satisfaction level was being proud to participate in volunteer activities was at 4.45 and volunteer mind participation was 4.23 respectively.