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137 community stakeholders learn to develop
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:
When the work of local scholars is recognized both locally and nationally,
another important role of the philosopher is to transfer the knowledge and educate
the society. The dedication of energy and intellects for the benefit of others is the
main impression for the local scholars. If they discover ways to apply the knowledge
for excellent management but they do not bring them to practice and share them with
others, the knowledge is worthless. Therefore, giving education and
knowledge transfer of their experiences through innovative built is the direct
responsibility of local scholars. Creation of knowledge from real practice through the
entire life of the local scholar is worthwhile when it is used for sharing the
Education and Leadership in Glocalization : What does “think globally, act locally” mean for education around the world?
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2014
138 benefits of society, and has been embraced
as heritage of ancestral wisdom of sifting through improved and applied process
over time to build on and develop.
4. Check out and Screen: The
local scholars create and build up innovation through the process of trial and
errors and it is then generalized through an intellectual process and developed in
accordance with eco-social and intellectual circumstances of the community.
Screening process to check the quality of innovation is actually happening to the
state of the practice as the learning process for self-evaluation with a genuine
understanding and awareness to the changes that occur. The evaluation stage
includes the ability to analyze situations involving life under an atmosphere of
reflection of experience and lessons of each other, leading to the use of learning
innovation through practices to change ways of thinking and practice, making a
community of self-directed learning that can be learned and developed over time.
The factors contributing to success: learning innovation process of local
scholars
Local scholars are in capable of bringing knowledge to the public through
innovation and use it as a driving force for social development. Innovation and
knowledge generated can be inherited and beneficial to communities with different
circumstances. The factors that contribute to the success of the innovation diffusion
process for sustainability consists of the following.
1. Leadership Prototypes: Local
