POLITICAL PARTICIPATION OF SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS IN DON MUANG DISTRICT, BANGKOK METROPOLITAN

Abstract

Objectives of this thesis were: 1. To study the levels of high School students’ political participation at Don Muang District, Bangkok Metropolitan, 2. To compare the high school students’ political participation at Don Muang District, Bangkok Metropolis and 3. To study problems, obstacles, and recommendations for the aforementioned participation according to Aparihaniya-dhamma. The methodology was the mixed research methods. The quantitative research was done through survey, data were collected with questionnaires that had reliability value at 0.861 from 383 samples, derived from 8,494 students using Taro Yamane formula. For the qualitative research, data were collected from 8 key informants and analyzed by content descriptive interpretation.

The results were found as follows: 1. Level of the high school students’ political participation at Don Muang District, Bangkok Metropolis was found by overall were at high, 2. High school students with different genders and ages had different political participations at the statistically significant level at 0.05, accepting the set hypotheses, and 3. For recommendations, schools should provide different facets of knowledge instead of indoctrinating the students and also listen attentively to students ‘suggestions. As for the students themselves, they should learn to be less egocentric and learn from the experts before rash actions and be more compromising, not rushing to abolish the set rules without good considerations.