Political Socialization and Participation among University Students in Thailand

Mezey, Susan Gluck

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“…University is one of the educational institutions and aims to achieve the purpose of education, which is to teach the student to think of himself (Mezey, 1975). A university is the study place for students during the academic period, which is similar to the workers working in the workplace.…”

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Influential Factors on Political Participation of Public University Undergraduates in Hebei Province, China

Yang¹,

Xia²,

Ahmad³

et al. 2018

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In recent decades, political participation amongst young people has attracted much academic research in established democracies. However, as an understudied area in China especially in Hebei province, political participation of public university undergraduates is in low level. Thus, this article concerns the political participation of public university undergraduates in Hebei province of China. The objective of this article is to identify the influential factors and determine the principal influential factor to students' political participation in the public university of Hebei province. Therefore, 1990 respondents were selected based on the cluster sampling method, the main statistical method for evaluation of research hypotheses is by the PLS-SEM. Findings of this study indicate that political education has neither effect nor relation to political participation, whereas university identity, experience, major integrated undertake directly function on political participation. Moreover, political competence is the most important for students' political participation in the public universities of Hebei province, China. Political value cognitive ability is the most important competence which influences the level of political participation among all involved factors in influencing students' political participation in Hebei public universities according to the results of Importance-Performance Map Analysis (IPMA) and Structural Equation Modeling (SEM). Additionally, the author suggested that in order to improve students' participatory level, enhancing capability of students is a necessary way.

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Section: University Communitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Influential Factors on Political Participation of Public University Undergraduates in Hebei Province, China

Yang¹,

Xia²,

Ahmad³

et al. 2018

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“…The foregoing establishment of the university as a unique learning environment, and the fact that "individual political behaviour and thoughts are consequences of their environmental influences, that is, those influences directly relating to political influences as well as forming the general character (Mezey 1975), makes the university student a unique actor in every society. Unlike school pupils who are yet to be in the mainstream of the society, and the working adults who already are but may fade out soon afterwards, university students occupy a "stage in life in which they are being transformed from predominantly members of a family, to predominantly members of society" (Lipset, 1967:59), and they rely solely on the university to support them in this experience.…”

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Students Union, University Administration and Political Development of Nations

Akinboye¹,

Eesuola²

2015

Afr. Res. Rev.

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“…Too much is either based on Western texts, especially from the U.S.A., or with a Western orientation. Students have too little opportunity to discuss local problems and seek solutions from an interdisciplinary approach because they are not regarded as sufficiently mature and motivated, and because most teachers, who by European standards have very heavy teaching commitments and regard their role as imparting knowledge rather than as stimulating thought or discussion (Nakata, 1975;Mezey, 1975).…”

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The higher education dilemma in developing countries: Thailand's two decades of reform

Watson

1981

High Educ

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Many developing countries are faced with the dilemma of whether to expand their higher education systems rapidly, in the face of demand and regardless of the social and employment consequences, or whether to curtail enrolments by some means of cut off or selection at the end of secondary school. This article discusses the dilemma in the context of Thailand. It discusses a variety of higher education models in use in the Third World countries and then shows how Thailand has modified its closed-access European-style universities through expansion and diversification in the 1960s and how it has experimented with open-access institutions during the 1970s. There have undoubtedly been problems but the experiment has eased, some of the social pressures and tensions and it remains to be seen if the government can control an ever expanding pool of university students. Other countries faced with a similar dilemma could well learn from the Thai experience.

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Political Socialization and Participation among University Students in Thailand

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Influential Factors on Political Participation of Public University Undergraduates in Hebei Province, China

Influential Factors on Political Participation of Public University Undergraduates in Hebei Province, China

Students Union, University Administration and Political Development of Nations

The higher education dilemma in developing countries: Thailand's two decades of reform

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