Democratic Citizenship of Public Administration Students Of Bansomdejchaopraya Rajabhat University

Abstract

The purpose of this research is to study the democratic citizenship among students of Public Administration, Bansomdejchaopraya Rajabhat University. This research was a Survey Research that used questionnaires to collect data from 200 students who were chosen randomly (Accidental Sampling).

 The results showed that 67.08% of the students in Public Administration were female, and another 32.92% were male. In terms of participation in political/community activities of parents, 61 people never participated in any activities, 110 people had ever participated, and 29 people continually participated in activities. There was a high level of agreement about the democratic citizenship of the Department of Public Administration students, and the mean was 4.02. When considering each aspect, it was found that the respect for equality was on a high level of agreement, 4.12 by mean, and the respect for the rights of others was in descending order at 4.07 by mean. The respect for rules was a high level of agreement, and the mean was 4.05. Moreover, the respect for the difference was in a high level of agreement, and the mean was 4.03. Besides, the self-responsibility and self-reliance were in a high level of agreement, and the mean was 3.97. The social responsibility was in a high level of agreement which the mean was 3.89. From the results, it can be concluded that the further development of democracy in Thailand is not a matter of individual, but democracy is a matter of people who lives together. It is necessary to develop people to have the qualities of being "citizen" who are able to develop democracy in order to enable society to survive.