The Process of Creating a Geography Learning Community: A Case Study of Ban Dong Tong Moo 6, Pha Tang Sub-district, Sangkhom District, Nong Khai Province

Abstract

This research aimed to establish a geography learning community at Ban Dong Tong Community, Moo 6, Pha Tang Sub-district, Sangkhom District, Nong Khai Province. The target group was selected purposively amount to 66 people, which were divided into 26 university students, 30 students, and 10 community representatives. This research used SECI Model integrated with a participatory action research process and a learning process in geography. The results showed that all of 3-target groups participated in creating a geography learning community in Ban Dong Tong community as the study area. The group of university students conveyed their knowledge of geography, the group of students provided community’s information, and the group of community representatives provided the additional information and verified the accuracy of the data until there was the process of learning management in geography using geography tools and geoinformatics to learn from the database from learning in the community such as satellite map outlines, geo-social mapping, and geocoding device. A group of the students and the university students collaboratively created a geo-social mapping using a simple survey process and was checked and edited by the community representatives, which this process presented the acquisition of knowledge and skills in geography for this learning community according to the objective of this learning community that led to the creating the geo-social mapping with the geo-informatics system software in order to be able to examine the accuracy of the acquired data. Finally, there was a presentation of the results to the community in order to identify the lessons learned and plan for developing the community in any other aspects in the future.