Dimapur, January 22 (MExN): The second year B. Ed Trainees of Unity College Dimapur were treated to live sessions of interactive learning as well as immersing in the experience at a workshop recently.
The five-day workshop on the topic “Drama in Education” was held at the College from January 12-16 where the participants witnessed lively lecture sessions and application activities by recreating live to the life syllabus and learning by doing.
The resource person of the workshop was a Temjenzungba, a graduate from National school of Drama (NSD), New Delhi, who enthralled the trainees with various dramatic activities as well as embodying the curriculum and challenging the theories through the concept of Drama-in- Education.
According to a press note received here, application of drama as a medium of teaching, elucidating lesson through different expression and developing pedagogy of teaching through different techniques of theater were some objectives of the workshop.
It also aimed at engaging the trainees in various integrative activities for personal development and growth using drama in education, it added.
Sharing an imaginative world and drama as rehearsing for the reality and simplifying the conventional notion of education through simple moments and gestures were other areas dealt in the workshop.
The workshop proved to be a big boon to all the trainees and faculty as well, it informed maintaining that such interactive exchanges act as a catalyst “in bringing out innate qualities and polishing of skills requisite of a teacher.”
