Creative Economy Learning Management to Promote Sustainable Citizenship for Secondary School Students in the Upper Northern Special Economic Development Zones, Thailand

Abstract

The objectives of this research were 1) to study creative economy learning approaches to promote sustainable citizenship for secondary school students in the Upper Northern Special Economic Development Zones, Thailand, and 2) to design guidelines for creative economy learning management to promote sustainable citizenship. for secondary school students in the Upper Northern Special Economic Development Zones, Thailand, and 3) to study the results of using creative economy learning management approaches to promote sustainable citizenship for secondary school students in the Upper Northern Special Economic Development Zones, Thailand. The research was action research. Samples in this research included 1) a group of 15 people who provided information on creative economy learning with the selection based on purposive sampling, 2) a group of 7 people who evaluate learning innovations with selection based on purposive sampling and 3) learning innovation trial group including 299 secondary school students with selection based on simple random sampling, coming up with a total of 321 students. The research tools included 1) a semi-unstructured interview form, 2) a form to evaluate the effectiveness of learning management approaches, and 3) a sustainable citizenship assessment form. The research results revealed that. 1. The study on creative economy learning approaches to promote sustainable citizenship for secondary school students in the Upper Northern Special Economic Development Zones, Thailand revealed that creative economy learning management is an integration of creative economy concepts and a basis for learning for students to focus on skills, knowledge and understanding of the economic system with a production system of products and services that rely on the existing experiences and knowledge base. This can be done by making use of cultural resources, including economy, traditions, ways of life, and ways of living, combined with knowledge. creativity and technology level to lead to the appropriate upgrading of one's own economic system. The creative economy learning management to promote sustainable citizenship for secondary school students in the Upper Northern Special Economic Development Zones, Thailand will require promotion to bring about learning competency in 4 areas, consisting of 1) Competency regarding Community Engaged Learning 2) Economic Literacy Competency 3) Competency regarding Environmental Awareness and Green Citizenship and 4) Competency regarding Creative Economy Innovation Development. 2. Designing creative economy learning guidelines to promote sustainable citizenship for secondary school students in the Upper Northern Special Economic Development Zones, Thailand, it was found that the researcher had designed a learning plan that integrated creative economy learning methods. It is designed as a lesson plan for the creative economy by using the area-based learning cycle teaching strategy (AAAR Teaching Approach) of Mangkhang (2023) together with creative community economics learning activities for 12 class periods, with evaluation results for the overall quality at the most appropriate level. 3. The study on the results of using creative economics learning management approaches to promote sustainable citizenship for secondary school students in the Upper Northern Special Economic Development Zones, Thailand revealed that the level of students' sustainable citizenship in an overall picture was at the highest level.