Abstract:
The objectives of this research were to 1) study the level of knowledge, understanding and attitude on global warming and the requirement of multi-media about global warming of people in Sa Kaeo province 2) create and develop the multi-media on global warming for non-formal education of people 3) evaluate the knowledge, understanding and attitude on global warming after using the multi-media on global warming for non-formal education of people and 4) study the durability of knowledge, understanding of people on global warming after using the multi-media on global warming for non-formal education for 4 weeks. The research area was Sa Kaeo province because this area confronted the drought, flood and temperature change severely and continually. The preliminary survey showed that people in Sa Kaeo lacked of knowledge, understanding on global warming. This study selected 3 districts namely Wang Nam Yen, Klong Hat and Ta Praya which using the multi-stage sampling. This research was conducted by mixed methods of qualitative and quantitative research in the phase of studying the knowledge, understanding, attitude and durability about global warming. The population were the people who were 15-60 years of 101,725 persons and the sample size followed by Taro Yamane and the sample of 400 respondents. The tools were (1) the 4 multiple choices test of knowledge, understanding on global warming with reliability of 0.96 (2) the 5 level rating scale questionnaire on the attitude of global warming and requirement on using multi-media with reliability of 0.93 (3) the multi-media on global warming which the researcher constructed in the form of CD. The data were analyzed by statistics of percentage, mean, standard deviation, Independent t-test, F-test and content analysis. The phase of creation and development the multi-media about global warming, using CD and evaluated by 5 experts namely 2 persons in environment and 3 persons in multi-media. The tool for evaluation was the structured interviewing by the method of content analysis. The criteria determined the efficiency as 85/85 and used the formula of E1/E2. The results of the research were as follows: 1) The level of knowledge, understanding on global warming of people were at the low level (46.98 percent) and attitudes were at the moderate level ( = 2.83, S.D. = 0.75). The people who were different in education level and occupations had no differed in knowledge, understanding and attitude on global warming. While the requirement of multi-media were at the highest (75.68 percent). 2) The created multi-media were the documentaries that contained in CD, narrated in Thai language with graphic pictures, movable pictures with light, color and sound in time consumption of 100 minutes. The contents were divided into 4 sections namely the states and problems of global warming, causes of problems, the impacts on human kind and environment, the approaches of solution and methods to reduce the problems by the peoples roles. The experts evaluated the quality of multi-media, then suggested the developing to refine the contents such as clear sound and reduced the time consumption to 80 minutes. The results of evaluation was at the highest level ( = 4.79, S.D. = 0.17) and the efficiency of multi-media was 86.67/87.45 accordance with determined criteria. 3) The knowledge, understanding and attitude on global warming after using the multi-media on global warming for non-formal education of people found that were at the very good (79.35 percent). When compared before and after using the multi-media found that had differed at a statistical significance of 0.05. The attitudes of people were at the high level ( = 4.14, S.D. = 0.55), and differed between before and after using the multi-media at a statistical significance of 0.05. 4) The durability of knowledge, understanding of people after using the multi-media on global warming for non-formal education for 4 weeks found that were at the very good level (78.20 percent) and attitudes of people were at the high level ( = 4.07, S.D. = 0.56).