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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.