Promotion of scientific literacy on global warming by process drama

This study indicates that process drama may be a successful way to achieve scientific literacy; the supreme goal of science education. It raises students’ curiosity and interest in science. This leads to the development of scientific knowledge, higher-level thinking, communication skills, and the application of knowledge in creative and productive way to solve real world challenge. Students’ personal experience with and through the drama is the key. Intimate involvement with the issues presented in a dramatic moment would challenge students to understand it, comment upon it and own its interpretation. Process is a medium through which any life experience may be explored with a focus on learning process rather the form of production. However, process drama is not a magic bullet in science education. It has many strengths as well as limits to consider such as the nature of science concepts, students’ knowledge background and characteristics, time, classroom space and resource, budget etc. By this reason, teachers who would like to use process drama in their teaching need to have drama training so they will be able to use it in science lesson properly and efficiently. The researcher argues that process drama would make science education more humanistic and holistic. This is an innovative way of teaching science.

Acknowledgement

This work was supported by the Thailand Research Fund (TRF) and The Commission of Higher Commission [Grand number: MRG5180147].