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Drama in Building Students' Character

This document discusses how drama can help build students' character. It argues that drama extends social awareness by allowing students to interact and experience how their actions might affect others. Drama also enhances critical thinking as students are encouraged to generate their own questions and solutions. Finally, drama prepares students for future life by giving them opportunities to develop responsibility, problem-solving skills, and the ability to work well in teams through role-playing activities. The document concludes that drama engages students' emotions, thoughts, and social experiences in a way that is very useful for character development.

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Drama in Building Students' Character

This document discusses how drama can help build students' character. It argues that drama extends social awareness by allowing students to interact and experience how their actions might affect others. Drama also enhances critical thinking as students are encouraged to generate their own questions and solutions. Finally, drama prepares students for future life by giving them opportunities to develop responsibility, problem-solving skills, and the ability to work well in teams through role-playing activities. The document concludes that drama engages students' emotions, thoughts, and social experiences in a way that is very useful for character development.

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Class : B+/Regular A

DRAMA IN BUILDING STUDENTS’ CHARACTER

Indonesia is a country in which put up a high concern in behaviour greatly. The

society are attempting to build a good character as an effort to protect the young generation to

be well-mannered in almost all the aspects of living. Education is seen as one of the way to

reach this goal. Fathur Rokhman, et. al (2006, p. 1161) clarified that “ education has been

considered as the centre of excellence in preparing human’s excellent characters”. Education

might be very broad, but then it has a certain unit to be assisted to take a part. The school

subjects are the answer. Tomas (2014, p. 11) said “drama enables them to use space to

express themselves and work at different paces towards different goals”. Here are 3 reasons

how does drama beneficial in building students’ character.

Firstly, drama will help students extent social awareness. Through drama students are

acquired to be have more interaction to others. It is as explained in Marie Gervais (2006, p. 4)

“drama provides a social context within which to observe the possible effects of one’s own

actions and that of others through the buffer of drama – the imaginary social context

(Needlands, 2004; Rohd, 1998; Wagner, 1976)”. It means that drama accomodates students to

experience as well as to understand what will probably others do if they do a certain action in

real life. Bolton as cited in Marie Gervais further explained that “in educational drama the

student has an active identification with the fictional context in addition to experiencing

greater awareness of his/her own personal identification (pp. 182-183)”. It helps them to have

a certain assumption based on what it is drawn in the story and it will definitely make them

be more mature in dealing with others.


Secondly, drama contribute to enhance students critical thinking. It is the nature to

think critically and clearly. Tomas (2014, p. 11) said that “critical thinking skills through

Socratic Method taught in schools help creates leaders”. The teacher who use drama in

teaching is acting only as a facilitator. It helps students to build confidence that will lead

them to have a repeatable thought that generates questions then by itself will coming to the

solutions. They will be accustomed into self-governing. All of them are potential to lead the

other in a team. They can share ideas that will lead them work in a harmony.

Additionally, drama give a chance for students to prepare themselves facing the future

life. Tomas (2014, p. 13) declared “drama has the potential to empower the students, give

them many opportunities to have pride in their work, it teaches them responsibility, problem

solving, management and directing proficiencies.” In line with the statement above, indeed

drama is really useful to enable students to learn if they later on have a job and have to make

decision by their own. Moreover if they have a team to work together with, it really teaches

them how build a good relationship with others.

In summary, the field of education played an important role in helping society to build

the characters of the young generation. Drama engages not only emotion, but also thought,

and experiences within a social context that is believed to be very useful for students’ future

life.

REFERENCES

Gervais, Marie. (2006). Exploring Moral Values with Young Adolescents Through Process
Drama. International Journal of Education & the Arts, 7(2), 1-34.
Jr, Tomas U. Ganiron. (2014). Teaching Styles of using English Drama in Critical Thinking
Course for Architecture Students in Qassim University. International Journal of
Education and Learning, 3, 11-22.

Rokhman, Fathur, Ahmad Syaifudin & Yuliati. (2013). Character Education For Golden
Generation 2045 (National Character Building for Indonesian Golden Years).
Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences: WCLTA 2013, 1161-1165.

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