Creative space building process for relationships building between youth and adult by local wisdom: case study Ban Nong Na Sang community Mueng Roi Et

Assist. Prof.Phuangchomphu Chaiala Sangrungruengroj

Abstract

Creative space is the area of experience that has obvious goals and objectives. The learner must be involved in the idea and designed of the activities to create a creative learning process. The community must be also involved in the area to create sustainability for that area.The purposes of this research are 1) Study the creation of creative spaces to build relationships between youth and adults in the Nong Na Sang community. 2) Develop community members of Nong Na Sang community understanding and can be used to create creative space to solve the problems of the community that are Qualitative Research,Quantitative data and Action Research. By bring community wisdom to build creative area. In order to make a relationships among youth and adults in the Nong Na Sang community.Because of the relationships can protect many social problems that occur. These social problems have a negative effect on youth, such as consumerism problem, drug addiction, and addictive online game etc. The Researcher, adults and youth participated together to design the format of their creative space, displayed at the Boonprawed Festival that is the annual merit of Roi-Et.Make wisdom community learning. In the creative space, adults who are the community philosopher teach youth to make sweets that are popular in the Boonprawed Festival as follows ; Khow Tom Mad, KanoomTiean, KanomJeen, Khow Pong and crafts as follows ; By Sri, Pouang Ma Hoad. Besides the research uses “Mass Media”, as a tool to motivate the community to pay attention and focus on their wisdom. And encourage community members to be proud in their wisdom.Which affects the sustainability of creative area. The research produces the story about Nongnasang creative space to broadcast through Citizen Reporter programme Thai PBS Television broadcasting. The research found that; the youth believe in their abilities to take the knowledge from creative space for work in their real life =4.32, high level (S.D.= 0.59) . The youth are proud of the wisdom they gained from working in the community = 4.23, high level (S.D. =0.58) and have got to know adults in their community better than before they participated in creative space = 3.83, high level (S.D. =0.59) While adults are proud of the wisdom they gained from working in their community = 4.31, high level (S.D.=0.69) of adults know youth in their community more than before they participated in creative space = 4.12, high level (S.D.=0.60) and are proud to act their role as a community philosopher = 4.05, high level (S.D. = 0.77). The results show that the effect of creative space affects the developing relationships among youth and adults in each community, which is an important factor that helps, take youth away from social problems. The researcher can conclude the creation process of creative space by wisdom in community by using Creative spaces model, Concept of learning and Cultural Study that are Frameworks for the analysis as follows: 1) Analyze the community for the result of the creative space can respond the community’s needs. 2) Understanding the role of creative space for the community and find community members to share creative space. 3) Give opportunities to community members have joined to search for wisdom activities in the creative area for make sense of ownership and responsibility to participate in creative activities. 4) Assign the roles to members in the creative area, for operate activities can go smoothly and mean while strengthening the knowledge of those roles will have different formats and different contents. 5) The inheritance of wisdom should convey the both of the form and the value of wisdom. 6) It should give an opportunity for the youth to bring the inherited wisdom in the creative area continuously, for example, assign the youth to help the school prepare religious traditions, all 12 months of community.