Discussion of findings international conference elgic 2014

Education and Leadership in Glocalization : What does “think globally, act locally” mean for education around the world? 21-24 2014 141 Such processes are driving the community towards sustainability. The factors that affect success include the leadership prototypes, creating shared vision, innovation adoption, dynamic approach, cyclical management, friendly communication, being close to sources of knowledge and local wisdom, relying on appropriate technology, and being socially acceptable. This cyclical process is like the wind that always blows in encouraging such innovative learning processes continuously.

5. Discussion of findings

While many countries are aiming to build a prosperous economy based on consumerism, there are groups of people in Thailand, led by local scholars who are dedicated to making the intellectual growth to occur in society. The current counteract is not an absolute refuse of consumerism. It, however, is a challenge to the ability to deal with economic pressures from outside the community, helping the community survive the materialism economy to that relying on the self -sustaining. This finding is in consistent with the study on the process of making folk scholars done by Utid Sungkarat 2010 stating that knowledge, concepts and ideology of each local philosopher is different from person to person, but each philosopher shares the ideals of self-sufficient, self-reliant and conforms to natural environment in adapting the local wisdom in compellation with their lifestyle. Based on the afore-mentioned concepts, the local scholars in the south of Thailand built up the learning innovation process from the local wisdom and the learning process complied from their direct experience. This innovation became the assets for the community as the community-driven knowledge management for solving the problems with the vision of sustainable collaboration. The complied learning innovation process changes the typical community into the community of learning. People learned to adapt to changes, learn to use appropriate technology in knowledge management. The learning innovation process promotes creative thinking and instills ethical guidelines for living in a completely self-sufficient way in the community. However, the learning innovation process created by local scholars is the process leading to a change for the better. The process, therefore, is for further development in the context of the eco- social setting and its local wisdom. The innovation has the potential to develop for the continuous improvement when people in the community learn to solve problems, Education and Leadership in Glocalization : What does “think globally, act locally” mean for education around the world? 21-24 2014 142 when they are ready to learn under the great atmosphere of friendliness, when they support each other and are supported with appropriate learning innovation. This created learning innovation process will bring about a happy and sustainable living for the people in the community.

6. Summary of the findings