A study of secondary school students' application of economic knowledge from social studies, religions and culture subject areas in their daily lives, Bangkok Metropolis
Abstract:
The purpose of this research was to study the secondary school students' application of economic knowledge from social social studies, religions and culture subject areas in their daily lives in Bangkok Metropolis. The subjects were totally 469 Mathayom Suksa Six students from the schools under the Office of the Basic Education Commission in Bangkok Metropolis and under the Office of the Private Education Commission in Bangkok Metropolis. The research instruments of this study were the questionnaire and interview forms. The data from questionnaire were analyzed by means of the percentage, arithmetic means and standard deviation. The data from interview were analyzed by content analysis. The results of this research were found that the application of economic knowledge which the students mostly applied was the content of recycling and saving the energy, the system and the principles in managing the cooperative system, the philosophy and the idea of the sufficiency economy, the principles of purchasing and understanding in the consumer protection law and their main reasons were to protect their rights in purchasing goods and services and to become a person who is sufficient. The economic knowledge that the students rather frequently applied in their daily lives was the principles of the fundamental economics, the guidelines for practice of sufficiency economy and the new theory, price mechanism and the international economy and their main reasons were to economize for benefit of themselves and the nation and to have saving money.