DEVELOPING YOUTH DEMOCRATIC CITIZENSHIP IN THE DIGITAL AGE

Abstract

Objectives of this research article were: 1. To study the democratic citizenship of youth in the digital age, 2. To develop training courses for democratic citizenship of youth in the digital age, and 3. To study the assessment results of democratic citizenship of youth in the digital age. The purposes of this Experimental Research of one-group pretest-posttest design. The sample consisted of students of the branch program in early childhood education, Faculty of Education, Bangkokthonburi University in the academic year 2025, totaling 50 people. The research tools were training courses plan, and assessment forms. Data were collected using an assessment form. The analysis data statistics were percentage, mean, standard deviation, and t-test (dependent samples).

The results revealed that: 1. The democratic citizenship of youth in the digital age comprised two aspects: responsibility, and participation. 2. The training courses for democratic citizenship of youth in the digital age into 12 plans, the overall assessment results for the suitability of each aspect were found to be at a high to highest level, ranked in order of suitability as follows: objective of training (= 4.56 S.D. = 0.22), content (= 4.55, S.D. = 0.24), teaching aids (= 4.53, S.D. = 0.21) training action plans (= 4.51, S.D. = 0.23), and illustrative (= 4.45, S.D. = 0.26), and 3. The assessment results of democratic citizenship in the digital age found that the post-training courses the youth had more democratic citizenship in the digital age than before training courses, at a significance level of .05. When each item to democratic citizenship of youth in the digital age found that the post-training courses the youth had more democratic citizenship in the digital age than before training courses. The satisfaction of the participants towards the training course was at a high level.