On 26 October, the Qattan Centre for Educational Research and Development (QCERD) organised a workshop on Planning Process Drama; jointly funded by the Arab Theatre Training Centre in Lebanon.
The three-day workshop took place at the Palestinian Red Crescent Society in Al-Bireh and was supervised by British drama expert, Pamela Bowell. Attending the workshop were 27 teachers from the Drama in Education Summer School.
The workshop’s objective was to provide participants with an environment for teaching and learning curricula through process drama, emphasising that drama can be a sphere for learning discoveries through building shared interactive relationships between teachers and their students, as a basis for a comprehensive and integrated learning experience.
The workshop mainly focused on teaching planning and its major components; starting with the learning fields that structure the curriculum, and the virtual contexts, roles, signs and strategies that could be selected while developing teaching plans that integrate drama.
Pamela Bowell is Visiting Reader in the School of Culture, Education and Innovation at Bishop Grosseteste University, Lincoln, where she teaches in the Department of Culture and Creative Arts. For 10 years, she served as Chair of National Drama (ND), which is the UK’s leading professional association for drama teachers and theatre educators, she has now returned to the Executive as ND Conference Officer. Bowell is also an active freelance drama and education consultant, workshop leader and author with a deep interest and experience in drama as a means of enabling learning.