Enhancing Quality of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education: Teaching History to the Students Majoring English through Role Playing

Abstract

Learners’ sound and sustainable achievement of knowledge, skills and attitudes at the end of a course or program is the ultimate success of the teachers. Learning proceeds from simple to complex and the total process is a cumulative. There must be consistency between previous and current level of learning. The extract of learning should come up to real life of the learners. Quality education essentially ensures achieving knowledge as well as treasuring those for achieving further innovative ideas, critical thinking and problem solving skills as well. Keeping this passion in mind, the current study focuses on a project of teaching history effectively through drama based role playing to forty eight learners majoring English of Daffodil International University Bangladesh. History is the root of literature domain. Without proper background knowledge it is difficult to comprehend literature of particular period. Learning through lecture and memorization typically covers remembering and understanding levels whereas adopting the techniques of role playing can develop skills like handling unpredictable situation, brainstorm to innovate, critical thinking, problem solving etc. The current paper exhibits the significance to learn meaningfully without monotony and with a better understanding.