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all the time.
3. Making a Difference: They
created different ways of thinking and approach in knowledge management and
practices against the current approaches of consumerism resulting in the creation of
innovation. Development of innovation was
starting from appreciation of important factor of life in one’s own living
situation based on self-reliance principles. Local scholars, therefore, used these
different ways of thinking and approach to deal with the present limits and the future
potentials.
4. Planning a Procedure: A
sequence of knowledge management was a fundamental principle that the local
scholars used as a guide in creating learning innovation. They had a plan for
their thinking and working systems, resulting from the learned experience.
Local scholars made a plan to establish core knowledge essential to life. They
searched for the knowledge they needed, improved and adapted it to suit the work
performance, exchanged and recorded learning and knowledge for further use.
Implementation of learning innovation of the local scholars consists
of the steps as follows. 1. Try-out Actively: An active
trial was a step- wise through reflection of the known learning innovation and then
decisions were made to comply with the new concept. Experiments were partially
or completely done and the practice stage was only temporary adoption of innovation
to see that the community should decide whether or not to accept it permanently. If
the results were satisfactory, innovation adoption occurred and were transferred to
the permanent learning innovation in the community.
2. Respond to Development: The
local scholars discovered the innovation from experience in their workplace and in
their living in nature. With the ability both at the individual and group levels, they
began learning and understanding; innovation was then invented and applied
for a better use. It can be said that local scholars learned from experience of their
living environment and continue with indefinite development with a wisely use
of knowledge management, they learned to solve problems and created innovations for
a better living.
3. Set up the Balance: The local
scholars made a balance use of academic knowledge, local wisdom and technology
for innovative learning together with a wise use of principles for knowledge
management and knowledge transference , they could use and transfer innovation of
knowledge for a better living.
4. Support Sufficiently: Local
scholars, public and private sectors and
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an effective learning community with appropriate and sufficient support when
they have the sense of ownership. The proper support needed for the local
scholars is intellectual capital, not the fiscal support that will be used up in due
time. An enormous budget investment for community development is not an absolute
solution. The prosperity occurs with the support of the treasure of knowledge,
source of wisdom and consecutive development and the process of innovation
diffusion of the knowledge to the next generation to solve the problem
permanently is the key.
Diffusion of learning innovation by the local scholars consists of the steps
as follows.
1. Create Knowledge-based
Society: Key to strengthening community
by the local scholars is through the process of building a network of learning
communities including creating body of knowledge, putting it to work and
disseminating it to the community. This process brings about the interaction within
the network learning community, sharing of knowledge and ways of thinking,
management and internalization of ideas. This process of intellectual sharing arising
from learning together is a major force of immunity to local people to deal with their
own life properly and happily.
2. Apply for Living: Living within
local ethnic belief confirms the identity of the community. Meanwhile, the use of
learning innovation of the local philosophers demonstrates the potential of
self- reliance and vitality of the community that can exist. This is due to the way of
thinking and management of knowledge and wisdom brought into application in the
learning process to improve quality of life. With the modification of old wisdom with
new knowledge to align with the changing era, local philosophers can solve problems
and develop their own potential to be new and fashionable at all times.
3. Share and Extend Results:
