Development Of Extracurricular Activities To Develop Skills Of Learners In Thai Dramatic Arts

Abstract

This research aims 1) to develop a model of extra-curricular activities to develop the practical skills of Thai classical dance learners 2) to study the achievements of extra-curricular activities. The sample group was 60 first year undergraduate students in Thai Drama Studies program, Department of Dramatic Arts, Faculty of Fine and Applied Arts, Rajamangala University of Technology Thanyaburi by purposive method for those who had lowest entrance exam scores. An experimental research model was designed by using the extra-curricular activities plan and result before- after the experiment to collect data and analyzed by statistics: mean, standard deviation and percent.

The findings revealed that extra-curricular activities plan contains important Cognitive Development Skills, including choreography practice, rhythmic catching, manages learning by emphasizing basic understanding and repeating until it can be performed automatically, group activities to build relationships, emphasis on self-learning. The overall average result of the knowledge and dancing skills after the activity experiment was higher than before the experiment with a statistical significance at the .01 level. 95% passed the activity to develop dance moves with the rhythm of the instrumental music, and 93.3% passed activities to develop listening skills for catching the rhythm, which is in a very good level.