Agricultural-Based Stem Curriculum for Enhancing Youth Learning Skills in the 21st Century

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          This research aimed to present the synthesis of meaning and components of youth learning skills in 21^st century in agriculture-based STEM education and the development and efficiency validation of the agricultural-based STEM curriculum to enhance youth learning skills in the 21^st century. This study was conducted through an exploratory sequential mixed method approach. The voluntary participants were comprised of 80 students from 10^th and 12^th grades. The qualitative data was analyzed by content and quantitative data was analyzed with percentage, mean, standard deviation, and t-test for one-sample statistics.
          The results indicated that 1) the youth learning skills in 21^st century in agriculture – based STEM education refer to a person who has STEM literacy, creative and innovation, acceptance of coding, collaborative problem solving, sustainability awareness, and entrepreneurial motivation which was at the highest appropriate level. 2) The agricultural-based STEM curriculum was developed with beyond the Thailand’s Basic Education Curriculum (A.D. 2008 :1) at grade 10-12 to enhance youth learning skills in the 21^st century included three learning units including the genetic engineering for delay ripening from ethylene, drone coding for precision agriculture, and my SMART farming for sustainable development. The quality of the developed curriculum was evaluated by the experts and obtained the good level. Moreover, the students’ youth learning skills in the 21^st century scores after the curriculum implementation were significantly different at 0.05 level above the cut-off score. The research findings revealed that the agricultural-based STEM curriculum was effective and could be used for promoting the youth learning skills in the 21^st century.