Developing The Anti-corruption Education Curriculum to Promote NACC Civil Society Networks in Protecting Public Resources

Abstract

The objectives of this research were to promote the NACC civil society networks in protecting public resources. Through the process of training leaders of NACC civil society networks, by developing and improving the anti-corruption education curriculum. of the National Anti-Corruption Office, to make                           a comparative study of knowledge, Attitude and behavior on anti-corruption, regarding 1) leadership and stewardship of public resources, 2) discernment between personal and public interests, 3) shame and intolerance of corruption, 4) citizenship and social responsibility, and 5) monitoring and investigating corruption. The sample group consisted of 60 leaders of NACC civil society networks, who were selected by the simple random sampling technique. The research instruments were questionnaires for used to collect data was 1) knowledge test about the anti-corruption education and corruption prevention curriculum. 2)Attitude measurement towards anti-corruption education and corruption prevention curriculum. 3)Measurement of compliance with the anti-corruption education and corruption prevention curriculum.and 4)assessment of conformity and Statistics used in the research include percentage, mean, standard deviation, and paired              t - test.

            The research results found that An important model in developing an anti-corruption education curriculum to promote the protection of public resources in Maha Sarakham Province by the NACC civil society network is Network leader training Using the knowledge set regarding the anti-corruption education curriculum that has been developed and improved, consisting of 4 steps : Step 1 : Study and analyze the problem situation, concepts, theories and related research documents to explore the necessity of creating a model for protecting public resources. Step 2 : Create the knowledge set from the development of anti-corruption education curriculum. Step 3 : Experiment with the knowledge set developed from the anti-corruption education curriculum. Step 4 : Evaluate the knowledge set created to promote the protection of public resources. By the NACC civil society networks through the training process. The content of the knowledge set consists of 5 units : namely 1) knowledge and understanding about leadership and protecting public resources 2) knowledge and understanding about distinguishing between personal interests and public interests 3) Knowledge and understanding about shame and intolerance of corruption. 4) Knowledge and understanding about citizenship and social responsibility. and 5) knowledge and understanding about monitoring and investigating corruption. The sample group were leaders of civil society networks. was at a high level, with knowledge, attitude, and over all behavior after  the training increasing from before the training (p–value < .05)