Thailand's Efforts to Build Desired Citizens to Lead Sustainable Development

Abstract

This article aims to study and explain the meaning and importance of the concept of citizenship. To understand how Civic Education, Active Citizenship, and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are interconnected in human resource, economic, social, and environmental development. Including the Thai state's role in applying these three concepts to develop citizens in leading development.

            The study found that the Thai state still needs to create active citizenship. Because the education curriculum for creating citizens still has a un well-rounded bias. Emphasis on creating citizens from textbooks that cultivate the concept of a model person and sticking to the person rather than the principle reducing and abandoning history. Also, there are one-sided and fixed views of politics, economy, culture, and society. This directly affects knowledge and understanding of sustainable development, which focuses on social development, economy, and environment simultaneously with a balance. In addition, sustainable development also requires other factors, namely social capital, sufficiency economy philosophy, stakeholder management, and corporation social responsibility, therefore, will lead the country to a good society.