Exploring Different Level of Citizens' Participation on Learning City Building

Abstract

Globally, most of the world's population lives in cities (3.5 billion people) and tend to increase to 5 billion by 2030. With rapid pace of urbanization, it leads our society to face countless challenges, including the impact of quality education for all. Thus, Learning City promotes lifelong learning that offers the foundation for sustainable development and enhances equality of education. One of a key approach for establishment of a learning city was “public participation”. Since it can sustain the process of building a learning city which requires enthusiasm, involvement, participation and commitment. Therefore, this research aims to study the relationship between the participation of citizens and activities engagement for building a learning city. Data was employed based on a face-to-face questionnaire survey with 400 sets and was performed from December 2021 to February 2022 by distributing questionnaires among people in Thanyaburi district, Pathum Thani province. Chi-squares analysis was applied to analyze the relationship between citizens' participation and their experience in joining local activities within the study area. The result presented that the importance of promoting the process of public participation. With more participation processes, it can help in promoting social learning among citizens, thereby underlining the creating perception through mutual learning and improve sense of community to a sustainability transformation.