A MODEL FOR ENHANCING THE QUALITY OF CITIZENSHIP IN THE 21ST CENTURY CITIZENSHIP FOR CHILDREN AND YOUTH ALONG THE LADPRAO WATERSIDE’S COMMUNITY

Abstract

Enhancing 21^st century citizenship’s quality for Children and Youth along the Ladprao Waterside’s Community aimed to synthesize the model of enhancing the 21^st century citizenship quality and the best practice of the college of teacher education in order to develop knowledge and learning innovation into the local communities and societies. This study was conducted by participation action research by generating the lesson learned through area-based working for studying the cause and problem’s community. Research management unit (RMU), participatory action research unit (PARU), students, and community collaboratively worked starting from analysis, plan, and solve the community’s problems.
The findings revealed that 1) Through the area-based lesson learned, the model for enhancing 21^st century citizenship quality consists of four steps; a) Planning the management of University engagement, b) Action by field working with community and students through Participatory Action Research (PAR), c) Observing and monitoring, and d) Reflection all steps throughout the area-based working. 2) The best practice model of the College of Teacher Education for developing according to the University’s criteria, service and engagement were collaboration and partnership which emphasize on the stakeholders’ advantages such as building of integrative services with university engagement in instruction, especially, the seven specified subject activities; STEM, Science, Thai Language, Foreign Language, Sport Music and Dance, Early Childhood and Elementary, and Religious, Social and Cultural Studies. This studies also suggested that other faculties of education should further continue and utilize this best practice to their community.