Good Imagination to Sustainably Peaceful Society

 26 พ.ค. 2565 12:11 น. | อ่าน 3970
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Everyone must have childhood and the happiest moment of a child is learning through playing along with imagination.

Playing or imagination of children is considered as the important foundation of brain development and learning development. This learning will build basic foundation on happy living. Certainly, there will be children that will be grown with learning and skills of happy living in such society and such society will become the society of happiness finally.

For southern border provinces, it is considered as the society that has been under the context of conflicts for over two decades. Therefore, the thoughts of people in society, especially children and juveniles, must be confused with worry on surrounding things. Consequently, it is necessary to promote learning on good things that are beneficial for society leading to good imagination or new ideas, especially fostering consciousness on imagination that will lead the society to become the “peaceful society”. Therefore, they will have the standpoint of good thought and can grow up as adults with happy life and an important part in building “sustainably peaceful society”

Another way to promote learning and fulfill good imagination of children or juveniles in southern border provinces is “Thailand Knowledge Park”.

What is Thailand Knowledge Park?

Thailand Knowledge Park or “TK Park” is a public organization under supervision of Office of Knowledge Management and Development, Office of the Prime Minister, established under the government policy in 2005 with the major responsibility to promote reading habits and creative lifelong learning of juveniles and people for building knowledge-based society that people can keep up with the world.

Services of “Thailand Knowledge Park” or “TK Park” consist of 12 zones including Living Library, Mind Room, Kids Room, Silent Room, Coffee Corner, Music Library, IT Library, Learning Auditorium, Performance Stage, Mini Theater, IT Workshop and the Sound Room.

TK Parks in Southern Border Provinces

Currently, Office of Knowledge Management and Development establishes 28 “TK Parks” in 28 provinces throughout Thailand and TK Parks in southern border provinces are as follows:

  • TK Park Yala located inside Thetsaban Nakhon Yala Youth Center
  • TK Park Narathiwat located at Naratiwat Ratchanakarin Park in Muang Narathiwat District
  • TK Park Pattani located on Pattanipirom Road, Muang Pattani District
  • TK Park Songkhla consisted of 2 parks located in Hat Yai Municipality, Songkhla and Songkhla Municipality.

TK Parks in southern border provinces are considered as the public learning spaces for juveniles and general people with cultural diversity giving some opportunities on learning, co-existence, and exchanging of innovations in various fields. They also help to build learning society in southern border provinces as well.

Diversity of Learning Style in the Manner of Edutainment

The main target group of TK Park is the group of children/juveniles therefore learning occurred in TK Park is learning through playing in activities that is called “Edutainment” an suitable for children and juveniles because their learning is “playing”, for example, watching films creating imagination of learning and creativity, cultural activities, sports activities, activities on public holidays with local organizations, and many other activities that local children and juveniles can be main participants.

Satisfaction of Users of TK Park

Most users of TK Park are juveniles with the age ranged from 13-20 year whereas users have satisfaction towards service of “Living Library” in the highest level because there are sufficient books for learning as interested, books are various and updated, and atmosphere inside TK Park helps to stimulate learning of juveniles.

In all dimensions, activities obtaining high level of satisfaction are activities with diversity covering all ages with amusement, participation of juveniles, opportunities giving to juveniles for showing their abilities and developing their potential, morality, ethics, local wisdom, and promotion of local arts and culture.

To build quality society, it must start from building quality people for society. To build quality people, it must start from building quality children and juveniles. The best method is giving children and juveniles some opportunities to imagine though learning in the manner of edutainment via various forms of activities helping to promote learning on new things, perception, and understanding on multicultural context. Importantly, it also fosters imagination on “sustainable peace”.

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