Institutionalization of drama education in Lesotho

The research paper discusses the challenges of institutionalizing drama education in Lesotho as well as the role that drama education can play in social and economic development. Drama in schools in the country is discussed rather than performed. For several reasons, many which are a manifestation of the results of colonial education, the previous and current administrations of the country have not regarded as being crucial to the development needs of the country. The thesis argues that the omission of critically dialogic thinking subjects such as Drama combined with the continued use of the banking model pedagogy have contributed to a dearth of critical thinking and engagement with information in Lesotho: a situation which has had devastating effects on the social and economic development. The paper posits that drama education is critical for developing critical thinking skills and Human Factor (HF) characteristics if the country is to achieve its goals of nation building and economic sustainability.