Encouraging the 21st Century Learning Behavior by Drama Education

Abstract

The purpose of this research was to develop and verify the efficiency of the drama education process for encouraging the 21^st century learning behavior of the students of Chiang Mai Rajabhat University. The procedures were 2 steps as follow; 1) to develop and verify quality of the innovation of drama education, 2) to implement the drama education process. The samples used for the experiment were 21 students of Performance Arts program. In the 1^st semester of the 2019 academic year. The research instruments were 1) dramatic arts lesson plans 2) dramatic arts skills test 3) self-assessment form of dramatic arts 4) authentic assessment of the 21^st century learning behavior and 5) questionnaire. The statistical analysis employed were percentage (%), mean (  ), standard deviation (S.D.), t-test dependent and content analysis. The results of this research were: 1) The efficiency of the drama education process had a capacity for developing the 21^st century learning behavior. 2) The students’ knowledge on drama was significantly higher that before the training.  3) The satisfaction of the students towards the drama education process was higher and at the highest satisfaction level.