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Songkhla Province has carried on the growth for more than four hundred years based on multicultural communities among Buddhist Thai, Chinese Thai, and Muslim Thai. It brings a combination of lifestyle and culture into peaceful coexistence, as the quotation of the local wisdom scholar cited "Three Spirals to One in Bo Yang Subdistrict," until becoming old Thai town aiming to go forward to the World Heritage City. Nonetheless, modern society is fading away from its strength. Thus it is a background of the research project to develop the participatory learning process for fostering the consciousness of locality care. Arsom Silp Institute of the Arts has conducted the participatory learning process among public sectors, civil societies, three universities, twelve local schools from 2017 until now. The promotion to crate learning process management, guiding a new generation with Value Inquiry Learning on a way of life and root of the ancestor. It was operated via Holistic approach: Heart, Hand, and Head concept that the children's body and mind experience to sense and interact with the surroundings. It includes conversations, knowledge sharing with the diverse age of the interlocutor, study for comprehension, and access to the background of several beliefs through architectures. Also, it covers the participation in different social activities which people in the community, kids, and youth turn back to notice the values of own locality and recognize importance on three cultures living together until the acceptance and respect for the difference occurs. It will bring about a peaceful mind and link to peace of living together in the community. The findings contained the local curriculum and the informal study unit, the learning houses by Kaohong community on Nongjig Nang-Ngam Street, Nongjig Photo Festival Exhibition, additional content for learning management in the schools, the station rotation of Songkhla to World Heritage, the Open Class of Sincerity arranged to learn the religion and culture. The children and the youth can access critical thinking, contemplating with understanding, sensing values, and conveying them through various types of media. It consists of the documentary clips, board games for the town conservation and development, and the product design to publicize the values of Songkhla Old Town for tourists. It aims to foster youth for media literacy and use the idea of Media as Social School simultaneously.

Educators are constantly looking for new and inspired methods of connecting with their students, colleagues, and administrators. So often, teaching becomes weighed down with testing, ranking, meeting deadlines, and passing evaluations. However, education should be more than that, it should be a connection between one soul and qualities. Educational research in the United States has begun to move in the direction of mindfulness, both for teachers and students, and you can see evidence of schools using techniques of engaging with In this series of studies, educators and students were introduced to a method of self-reflection called core reflection. The participants learned how to implement aspects of core reflection with themselves in times of conflict, and with those around them (whether students or teachers). The result of these studies was largely positive, with students and teachers inspired to continue using core reflection as a mindfulness exercise and as a way to engage with self-feelings and regulate their reactions to outside events and influences. This study was presented at the 2017 APNHE Annual Meeting in Bangkok, Thailand. The focus of the presentation was to introduce the studies, and to provide the attendees with skills and ideas that they could implement immediately into their teaching lives.

Recent times have witnessed a gradual shift in the perspective of volunteering to one where volunteerism is expressed increasingly as a two-way process with benefits generally accruing to the person doing the volunteering, as well as to the person on whose behalf the volunteer act is undertaken. Now we are at the stage to expand the scope of volunteer campaign into global level beyond Korea. We think that active volunteer exchange at private levels is the best way for neighboring countries to pursue common prosperity and realize true global cooperation. Although Korea, Japan and China are sometimes competing or pitted against each other for national interest, we are still near neighbors in historical, cultural and geopolitical aspects. As shown from the disasters like earthquake and tsunami at 5. August last year in Bali, natural disaster is never limited to one country, which implies that neighboring countries as well as all human beings shall help each other. Recently, Northeast Asia is facing a serious diplomatic crisis due to the North Korean nuclear issue. It is a time when a peaceful relationship is required more than ever. In this paper, we discussed how to develop peace and common prosperity of the Northeast Asia, and suggest several solution which based on volunteering.