A Delphi Survey on Citizenship Education in Asean Countries: Findings for Brunei

Hajah Sallimah Haji Mohammed Salleh*, Kumar Laxman**, Rosmawijah Jawawi***
* Senior Lecturer, Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah Institute of Education (SHBIE), University Brunei Darussalam, Brunei
** Associate Professor, University of Auckland
*** Lecturer, Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah Institute of Education (SHBIE), University Brunei Darussalam
Periodicity:February - April'2015
DOI : https://doi.org/10.26634/jpsy.8.4.3271

Abstract

The aim of the Delphi Survey was to elucidate Bruneian Education experts' responses to five questions regarding their knowledge and understanding of the charateristics of citizenship education viz. Environment, Coexistence, Culture, Social Justice and Equity, Democracy, Sustainable Development, Interdependence, Foreign Language, Social Welfare, Human Rights, ASEAN History and Culture, and Common Social Problems of ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations ) Countries. A Delphi Survey questionnaire was given to the education experts at two different times. The education experts were primary and secondary teachers, University lecturers and other education experts. There were 386 participants in the first round survey, and 101 participants in the second round survey. The results shows that in the first part of the survey, most of the education experts' thought about their achievements of the characteristics for knowledge and understanding, skills and understanding, and values and attitudes at local, national, regional, global level and universal levels, at present, and in ten years later, are stable during the two rounds of the Delphi survey. For the second part of the survey, regarding their knowledge and understanding of the twelve characteristics of citizenship education, it was shown that there were consensus on their knowledge and understanding on different culture, social justice and equity, democracy, interdependence, foreign language, social welfare, ASEAN history and culture, and common social problems of ASEAN countries.

Keywords

Citizenship Education, Delphi Survey, ASEAN History, ASEAN Culture.

How to Cite this Article?

Salleh, H. S. H. M., Laxman, K., and Jawawi, R. (2015). A Delphi Survey on Citizenship Education in Asean Countries: Findings for Brunei. i-manager’s Journal on Educational Psychology, 8(4), 39-52. https://doi.org/10.26634/jpsy.8.4.3271

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