Human Resource Development Activities under the OTOP School: Analyzed by OVOP Conceptual Framework
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The objective of this research was to examine the limitations and obstacles as well as the factors that contribute to human resource development under the various activities of the OTOP school project. It was qualitative research with in-depth interviews. The results of the research showed that the courses from the central curriculum of the Community Development Department, Ministry of Interior, have content focused on product development as well as being too short in teaching time. This was a constraint and an obstacle to human resource development. Instead, knowledge enhancement activities were mainly devoted to supporting human resource development. Knowledge enhancement activities were organized by OTOP schools by the OTOP school leaders, who are people within the local community; or in other words, people within the community understand the problems of human resource development within the community better than people outside the community. As such, people in the community must play a key role in the development of their local community.
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