Develop forest curriculum as a local curriculum to encourage community to empowerment in forest management
The “Forest Curriculum” is the bridge to connect between the world in the past to today’s world, under the truth and the process of agriculture production are leading to destruction of natural resources and instead becoming ready to step into the future world as it should be. The author who creates the learning process tries to change the world, to surround the new world with alternative solutions to problems, combine traditional knowledge with scientific knowledge and technology to solve community problems. It design to develops occupations to protect natural resources for food resources, rehabilitate upper watershed resources and restore natural balances through learning processes and learning activities. The learning process creates learner activities to protect natural resources, strengthen traditional knowledge and weave the elder generation to be integrated in community problem-solving, without limitations of specialized learning fields. It could explore from one subject to another with problem situations to start up the lessons, while it links with learning tasks and leads to family activities. These patterns will transform knowledge and parents` perception to consider, as well as being a participatory process. Children’s learning process will engage parents to solve their children’s problems, parent’s problems and community problems. This situation will bring new parent-child relationships and transform knowledge from generation to generation. It will link agriculture production process to be more friendly to the environment, to be concerned about today’s globalization, and adapt to globalization and sustainable ways, with some part of self-sufficiency at the grassroots level.


