Implementing teaching and learning, to raising the dimension of thinking skills, team skills and moral reasoning among students, is still a major challenge to secondary school teachers. Pedagogy and classroom teaching strategies is important to stimulate students to think critically and pro-active in addressing a moral and social conflict. Furthermore, producing Malaysian citizens who are knowledgeable, creative, competent and possess high moral standards is a aspirations of Malaysian Education Blueprint 2013-2025. Conventional classroom teaching seems difficult to attract secondary school students to engage physically and mentally in moral learning process. In this regard, the use of critical pedagogy through Forum Theatre as an innovative strategies in teaching and learning of Moral Education is a current demands. Therefore, this article discusses the use and justification of critical pedagogy through Forum Theatre as 21st century pedagogy in teaching and learning of Moral Education in secondary school. The findings show that Forum Theatre technique that support philosophy and critical pedagogical features can play a role as active and interactive learning to develop students' thinking skills such as problem solving skills and team skills.
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