Guideline for Developing Image and Qualification of the Twenty-First- Century Performing Art Teacher

Abstract

The study “Guideline for Developing Image and Qualification of the Twenty-First- Century Performing Art Teacher” is a mixed methods research aiming to study the current status and image and to create image and qualifications of the twenty-first-century performing art teachers. The subjects were divided into two groups: teacher’s attitude collected from 136 participants and student’s attitude from 313 participants. The study investigated the teacher participants in four areas including their knowledge, skills, attributes, and specific personality and image of performing art teachers. The researchers classified their age range into generation groups in order to analyze the participants’ attitudes and connectedness. Then the analytic results, along with literature review, were used to create a guideline for developing image and qualifications of the twenty-first-century performing art teachers.  Based on the mean score, the researchers found that in general the students and the teachers’ opinions emphasized personality traits and image of the performing art teachers with the highest score. For the expected knowledge, performing art teachers should be able to well describe knowledge about dance theatre and Thai drama. In addition, they should be able to connect knowledge from different disciplines when working across their own study filed.  For skills, they should be able to know about rhythm counting, performing management, and communication skills. For attributes, they should have persistence of work effort, role model potentials for ethical values, confidence, and constant self-development behaviors. In developing their personality traits and image of performing art teacher, they should be self-realizing, modern, keeping up with trends, and a type of change leadership. In statistical analysis, applied by t-test and f-test, the research was found that in comparative differences of teaching score level and educational backgrounds, the teachers in higher education group showed higher score than those in secondary schools which differ statistically significant at the 0.05 level. However, the results from the student group did not differ.  The research was found that in comparative differences of age range by generation between the teacher group (Gen X, Gen Y) and the student group (Gen Z) showed opinions about image and personality traits of the twenty-first-century performing art teachers differ statistically significant at the 0.05 level.

The research was found that there are six ways to develop image and qualifications of the twenty-first-century performing art teachers: 1 Support and develop communication skills and acting administration and  management, 2 Upgrade performing art teachers to have knowledge of various disciplines and able to seek knowledge, connect and teach their students, 3 adjust roles of the teacher from a performing art teacher to become a facilitator and creator, 4 support effectiveness and efficiency of media and technology skills, 5 support and develop image of performing art teacher to be modern and likely to have change leadership, and 6 preserve the image of influential people in Thai art and culture.