Digital performing arts-based transformation of drama education: Positioning Indonesian literature as world literature
The flow and expansion of digitalization and cultural globalization require drama education to move beyond conventional stages toward a digital performing arts ecosystem that facilitates literary worlding. This study employs library research with thematic categorization, comparative analysis, and conceptual synthesis, drawing upon postdramatic dramaturgy (Lehmann, Fischer-Lichte), comparative literature, world literature (Damrosch), and digital humanities. The study contributes a pedagogical framework that integrates drama pedagogy, the transformation of Indonesian literary texts, digital performance, and world literature perspectives into a single pedagogical framework. The study formulates the Drama–Literature–Digital Transformation Model (DLDTM) with four stages: reading, transformation, digitalizing, and worlding. This model positions students as readers, dramaturgs, creators, performers, and cultural agents. Practically, DLDTM can be applied in Indonesian Language and Literature curricula as project-based learning, fostering literary, performative, digital, cultural, and global literacies. Furthermore, DLDTM opens interdisciplinary collaboration, strengthens cultural diplomacy through digital performance, and contributes to the internationalization of Indonesian literature.
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