Sarapee Wantrong. The Strengthening Guideline of the Youth's Democratic Citizenship of the Youth in Surin Province. (). Buriram Rajabhat University. Academic Resource Center.. : , 2563.
The Strengthening Guideline of the Youth's Democratic Citizenship of the Youth in Surin Province
Abstract:
The purposes of this research were 1) to study the democratic citizenship of youth in Surin province 2) to compare the democratic citizenship of youth in Surin province classified by gender, age, educational level, school size, and participation in activities promoting the democratic citizenship 3) to examine the guidelines for strengthening the democratic citizenship of youth in Surin province. The samples were 395 upper secondary school students from 19 district schools in Surin province under the Office of Secondary Educational Service Area 33. This was the mixed methodology research the investigation by questionnaire as a quantitative instrument for collecting data , a group interviewing was as a qualitative method instrument. And statistics for analysis were t-test(Independent) and F-test(One Way ANOVA). The research results revealed that:
1. The overall democratic citizenship of the youth in Surin province was at a high level. When each aspect was considered, all aspects were arranged in order from the highest to the lowest mean as follows: the respect for the rights of others, the social responsibility and the respect for rules respectively.
2. The comparison of democratic citizenship of the youth in Surin province classified by gender, age, educational level, and participation in school activities showed no statistically significant difference while the school size displayed statistically significant difference at the 0.05 level.
3. The guidelines for strengthening the democratic citizenship of the youth in Surin province included:
1) trainings and activities to strengthen the nature of citizenship in democracy for youth to gain knowledge and understanding for applying their daily life, family, school and community, 2) teachings and learnings in social studies, religion and culture to emphasize students to perform democratic citizenship activities. 3) rising awareness about the role of youth cultivating and creating in family, school, community and nation, 4) having a parents, teachers, community and country leaders as a good role model of good citizen for youth in democratic ways and, 5) promoting a campaign through social media.