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focus on puppetry, theatre and mask making and from 14 to 18 March 2011
focused on heritage crafts and different art forms. The resource persons included
international puppeteer Padam Shri Dadi Padamjee, psychiatrist Dr Jitendra Nagpal,
theatre personality Sushma Seth, theatre educators and paper mask experts. During
the second event Vasant Utsav, experts of two traditional rare craft forms, ‘Pabuji ki
Phad’ from Bikaner and ‘Loin Loom’ Weaving from Nagaland, trained the teacher
educators and teachers about the specialty of their heritage craft.
The objective of this workshop was making participants aware of the
importance of local and traditional arts and crafts, joy of singing, dancing, painting
and simultaneously developing the brain in different quarters. Expert
choreographer facilitated participants learn and perform a Nritya Natika on five
elements. The participants who came from different states presented paintings of
traditional Phad, shawls woven according to the style of Angami Tribe. These
events helped the DEAA reach two hundred plus audience and educators and
were highly appreciated for bringing arts to the centre stage.
Sensitisation Programmes of Principals and School Administrators on
Heritage Crafts and Graphic Design
A one-day sensitisation programmes for the teachers and school administrators of
senior secondary schools was organised at Delhi, Guwahati, Bhopal and Chennai
in collaboration with CBSE. These programmes were organised with the objective
to sensitise the school authorities/principals about the new subject areas being
introduced by NCERT and implemented by the CBSE. During the day long
conferences, presentations were made by the resource persons who were either the
subject experts, members of the textbook development committee or faculty
members from the department. After the presentation on both the subjects which
were on the syllabus, methodology, examination patterns, teachers’ qualifications,
systemic issues and future scope of these subjects followed by an intensive
interaction. Around 100 participants attended these programmes.
One of the sensitisation programmes was held exclusively for the North-East
in Guwahati (Assam). Around 25 principals, senior teachers or school
administrators attended the programme organised at the St. Fransis De Sales
Secondary School. Since there has been a recent trend among the schools in
Assam to get affiliation with CBSE and many of them are at present only upto
secondary level but were planning to upgrade them to senior secondary, also
took part.
Collaboration with other Agencies
The department collaborated with Sangeet Natak Academy to acquire visuals
and textual materials for development of supplementary book on musical
instruments. Also, the department collaborated with CBSE to organise programme
on sensitisation of principals and school administrators in different cities.
List of On-going/ Carried Over Programmes
� Teachers’ Handbook in Dance for Upper Primary Stage
� Development of Training Package for Primary Teachers in Art Education
� Resource Centre Events on Arts and Crafts
� Workshops for Vetting of Hindi Translation of the Textbooks for Visual Arts
(2) Graphic Design (1) for Class XII.
Annual Report 2010-11