Global Citizenship of Secondary School Students in Bangkok, Thailand

Abstract

The purposes of this research were to study Global Citizenship of Secondary Students in Bangkok Thailand and to compare their levels of Global Citizenship by classifying their sex, private school and government school, year/class and family occupation. The sample in this research were 577 Secondary Students in Bangkok, Thailand. The instrument used in this research were Global Citizenship of Secondary Students in Bangkok, Thailand questionnaires by classifying such as 1) self discipline 2) social interaction 3) compliance roles and 4) awareness of the situation of environmental resources and public health. The scale consisted of 48 questions, has reliability at 0.857. The data were statistically analyzed with Descriptive statistics: mean, standard Deviation and inferential statistic was t-test independent. The results of this research revealed that: Overall, the students displayed a slightly high level of Global Citizenship (mean = 3.74). When considering each aspect, it was found that with all aspects, the level were high was found that the aspect relating to self discipline shoed the high level (mean = 3.89). The second highest was the aspect relating to the awareness of the situation of environmental resources and public health and to social interaction (mean = 3.76) and the aspect relating to compliance roles (mean = 3.54). The overall Global Citizenship of Secondary Students in Bangkok indicated statistically significant different in these areas (sig = .05): sex, private school and government