Experiential Learning Strategy in Teaching Hip-Hop Dance for Enhancing Dance Performance among Grade 10 Students

Abstract

One of the most effective means of empowering someone with knowledge and skills that bring about change and support their economic development is education. According to an article written by Leverage (2021), education helps to create a better society. Understanding the value of education in today’s culture is crucial. Learning or acquiring knowledge, skills, values, morals, beliefs, and habits is the education process. With the correct teaching strategies, teachers can make the classroom fun and effective for students to gain vital intellectual and social skills that will serve them for the rest of their lives (Indeed, 2023). Among such teaching methods is the use of experiential learning, wherein the students use experiences to learn a certain topic or subject (Institute for Experiential Learning, 2021). Hence, this study aims to determine the effectiveness of using an experiential learning strategy in teaching hip-hop to enhance dance performance among Grade 10 students. A descriptive-experimental research design method was employed wherein a pre and post-test was given among the respondents and their perception of the experiential learning strategy was assessed. Considering this, the results revealed a significant difference in the performance of the respondents before and after employing the experiential learning strategy in terms of knowledge, comprehension, ability, and attitude. It was also found that there is no significant relationship between the respondents' perception of the respondents in connection with the experiential learning strategy when compared to their performance.