Participatory Development of Strategic Plan for Establishing the Local Museum of Tha Khon Yang Community, Tha Khon Yang Sub-district, Kantharavichai District, Maha Sarakham Province

Abstract

The purpose of this participatory action research was to develop a suitable and sustainable strategic plan for establishing the Tha Khon Yang museum, Tha Khon Yang Sub-district, Kantharavichai district, Maha Sarakham province. This research emphasized a participatory learning process between community and people involved as both means and ends by studying local capital (economic capital, social capital and cultural capital). It is expected that a participatory learning process is a key tool of empowerment and consciousness-raising on sense of belonging of community. The data on the local capital received from this participatory learning process was used 1) to analyze the SWOT by studying both history and present-day situations of community 2) to study the alternative ways  for reducing problems and empowering community, and 3) to use the findings from 1) and 2)  to study and develop a suitable strategic plan for establishing the Tha Khon Yang museum based on to the  situation and needs of community. The results from this research was not only a document on community-based strategic plan for establishing the Tha Khon Yang museum, but also was “commitment’ or obligation between community and people involved who need to succeed in establishinsg  the Tha Khon Yang museum as a cultural development tool of community