Study on Youth participated on the Development of Global Citizenship: Focused on A case of Community Link Extra Curricular School Activities (Forum for Youth Culture; Vol. 36)

The purpose of this study is to investigate the effects of global citizenship program that had been provided as a CLECSA for creativity to middle school students. Global citizenship program had been administered by the specialists of Hanbart welfare center at Dae Jeon city during the 2nd semester of 2012. Achieving the purpose of study, researchers compare 216 students who had the global citizenship program with 71 student who did not have in terms of ① universal value of human being, ②respect for diversity, ③ interests in global issues, ④ intension of participating in problem solving, ⑤ inclination for globalization. From the analysis of the questionnaires, three important result has been came out. First, female students showed high scores in the area of interests in global issues but low in the area of intension of participating in problem solving. Second, experience of going abroad did not affect the global citizenship, however, the experience of staying foreign countries over one year affected the global citizenship, especially in the area of universal value of human being, respect for diversity, and inclination for globalization. Third, a group of students who had the global citizenship program showed high scores in the area of interests in global issues and intention of participating in problem solving. Based upon the research findings, researchers suggested that CLECSA for creativity should reinforce in terms of quantity and quality and develop the diverse programs for multicultural education on the basis of global education.