The quality of democracy in a democratic state is decided upon the democratic quality of its citizens, which is only learned through thorough education. Hence, democratic citizen education's first priority is to educate its citizens to be fully aware ...
The quality of democracy in a democratic state is decided upon the democratic quality of its citizens, which is only learned through thorough education. Hence, democratic citizen education's first priority is to educate its citizens to be fully aware of their democratic rights and duties.
During the early ages of elementary educations, citizens are firstly taught about its surrounding society, regarding its required basic manners and values. As the educational level advances, citizens are further educated about its surrounding society and its sophisticated structures. Hence, citizens in age of elementary education are excellent resources for the democratic state to examine its citizen' basic democratic quality, which directly effect the state's decision regarding its democratic education toward its citizens.
Hence, this report focus on selecting the educational standard for the citizens and, in same time, examine the democratic quality of children, who are currently attending elementary education, from Ilsan and Pundang of Kyunggi Province.
Existing literature on this topic generally suggest that there are four elements of democratic citizenship : internalization of basic democratic values : respect of humanrights : responsibility : cooperation : and democratic formal . The questionnaire was composed of 27 questions categorizes in to 4 virtues mentioned above. Collected data throuh the questionnaires were analised by various statistical treatments such as frequency, percentage, cross-tabs, t-test, one-way ANOVA, and regression analysis.
To summarize the research result, regarding the democratic quality of students of elementary education shows that females have more rational democratic mind and higher democratic participation in its surrounding society. As the citizen's educational level advanced, quality of his or her democratic citizenship had very little improvement. It also showed that surrounding environments of citizens, such as family or peers, had very effect on their democratic quality. Regarding the regional tests of Kyunggi province, students of elementary education showed high knowledge of democratic citizen's quality of demoncratic citizenship appeared to be the gender, while their educational level or family surroundings, unless they had brothers or sister, appeared to be ineffective.
The research had suggested these points :
Firstly, the democratic education will be more effective if the standard of the education is different for male and famale.
Secondly, as observed in the research result, improvements in quality of democratic citizenship is not shown as the citizen's educational level improved. This result suggests that the current educational systems in elementary schools are not effective and requires thorough examination for change.
Thirdly, to improve the low participation of democratic citizenship, voluntary activities, which are rarely active in current elementary education, will need to be considered more important ane widely executed.
Lastly, research result shows that citizen's surrounding such as its family environment have significant effect in citizen's quality of democratic citizenship. Hence, the education at elementary school will also need to interact with education at elementary school will also need to interact with education at home, in order to boost the level of citizen's democratic citizenship.