The effectiveness of Pedagogy Theater on Responsibility and moral development of elementary students

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of the educational-pedagogical theater on the responsibility and the moral development of the elementary students. The research design was a quasi-experimental pretest-posttest with a control group. The population of this study were all fifth and sixth grade elementary students in Ardabil in 2020-2021. Thirty-two people selected by the convenience sampling method were assigned into the experimental and the control groups (N = 16 each). For the experimental group, a designed educational-pedagogical theater program was implemented, while the control group did not receive any training. The research instruments included the Student Responsibility Questionnaire and the Moral Development Test. The results showed that the educational-pedagogical theater intervention had a significant effect on increasing and improving the responsibility and moral development (p<0.05). The findings of this study provide useful information regarding the effect of the educational-pedagogical theater curriculum on increasing the responsibility and moral development. Moreover, using this intervention, the counselors and psychologists can improve the responsibility and moral development of the elementary students.

Keywords

• educational-pedagogical theater
• responsibility
• moral development
• students