แนวทางการเสริมสร้างความเป็นพลเมืองของเยาวชนในจังหวัดสุรินทร์

บทคัดย่อ

  The purposes of this research were 1) to study democratic citizenship of the youth in Surin province 2) to compare the democratic citizenship of the youth in Surin province categorized by gender, age, educational level, school size, and participation in activities promoting democratic citizenship 3) to examine the guidelines for strengthening democratic citizenship of the youth in Surin province. The samples were 395 upper secondary school students from district schools in Surin province under the Office of Secondary Educational Service Area 33. In this mixed methods research investigation, a questionnaire was used as a quantitative instrument for data collection, a group interview was used as a qualitative method instrument, and statistical analysis used were t-test and F-test.  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: respect for the rights of others social responsibility and respect for rules.


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 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 in their everyday 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 the level of family, school, community and nation 4) having parents, teachers, community and country leaders as a good role model of good citizen for youth in democracy and 5) promoting a campaign through social media.

Keywords: Strengthen Guideline,  Democratic, Citizenship , Youth