Exploring Community Capital of the Balinese Subak Cultural Heritage: A Content Analysis of Participatory Maps

Sang Putu Kaler Surata*

Department of Biology Education

Mahasaraswati Denpasar University

Indonesia

Problem Area/Need for Research

Subaks are community religious institution for managing water irrigation. Water is regarded as a gift from the Goddes of the lake; Water is shared resources

Subaks widely known as cultural achievement of Balinese people, attrached millions of tourism

Problem Area/Need for Research

Subaks have OUVs :Water temple networking

Community Capital: resource that can be used, invested or exchanged to create new resources.

Major Problem: loss generation, understanding of OUV are reduced drastically.

Objective: Explore CC of participatory maps produced by student teachers.

Cognitive maps: graphical representation that allows one to observe, analyze, and compare mental models or abstract concepts

Landscape maps: public symbols describing the state of local geography and landscapes, and which reflect the assets, values and a vision for the future

Research Methods Content analyzed: of participatory maps produced by 23 undergraduate students from the Biol. Edu. Dept.

Story maps:

graphic representations of the various components of a sequence of events, which clearly outline the mutual relationships between components

Research Methods

Research Methods

Flora et al https://www.ffa.org/documents/lts_communitycapitals.pdf

Procedures1. Scanned

participatory maps to a list of items

2. Catagoyzed items to CCF

Cognitive m

ap

Landscape map

Story map

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Number of item by Community Capital Types

Natural Built Cultural Human Social Financial Political

Outputs

Story maps are more diversity with items & CC

daily activities, potentials, threats, and solutions to overcome problems

state and activities of farmers in the rice fields

beauty of the rice fields

Outputs (Themes)

Cognitive maps

Landscape maps

Story maps

Student Activities

Landscape maps: 1. Enhance the ability of youth

to construct detail map of local resources

2. Build capacity of local youth to mediate & decision making

Story maps: 1. Exploring reality, problems

2. Constructing knowledes, solutions, communication & decision making

Cognitive maps:

1. Modeling abstract and complex variables can’t measured numerically

2. Seeing individual org. function in a complex ecosystem

Discussions (1): Participatory Mapping Catalyze Community Engagement

• Involving comm. in mapping, evaluation & discussion encourage them to participate in decision making & stimulate to conserve their local landscape

Strategy

• The important of participatory mapping of CC to promote ecopedagogy (place-based education): local sources as model of sustainability

Implication

• Remarkable model of ecopedagoy (subaks are true and tried model of sustain. practices).

• Opportunity for local youth: learning from the past to built the future

Subak

Discussions (2)

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