Educating the local population about the need of environmental protection through participatory educational theatre (PET) with a focus on Sundarbans

Prakash, Raghav, Naz, Aliya and Chowdhury, Abhiroop (2024) Educating the local population about the need of environmental protection through participatory educational theatre (PET) with a focus on Sundarbans. In: Fostering an ecological shift through effective environmental education. IGI Global Publishing, pp. 290-306. ISBN 9798369325773

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Abstract

Participatory and community theatre are applied from radical theatre traditions. Participatory education theatre (PET) has been aiding natural resource conservation projects around the globe. This book chapter elaborates on the role of PET as an effective tool in implementing socio-environmental projects. The genesis and evolution of PET from traditional theatrical forms are showcased in this chapter. The benefit of PET is turning the passive audiences into active participants, which helps in project implementation. As dramatic pretend play games (DPPG) help enlist behavioural changes in audience, PET also caters to more acceptability of any project's critical take-home message to a broader audience. This concept was tested in a socio-environmental project in the disaster-vulnerable Indian Sundarbans, with positive outcomes and has been instrumental in project compliance with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 10 (reduce inequalities) targets by challenging the existing class, creed, and religion-based social dogmas.

Item Type: Book Section
Keywords: Participatory education theatre (PET) | Socio-environmental projects | Dramatic Pretend Play Games (DPPG)
Subjects: Physical, Life and Health Sciences > Environmental Science, Policy and Law
Social Sciences and humanities > Social Sciences > Education
JGU School/Centre: Jindal School of Liberal Arts & Humanities
Jindal School of Environment & Sustainability
Depositing User: Subhajit Bhattacharjee
Date Deposited: 07 Jun 2024 11:32
Last Modified: 07 Jun 2024 11:48
Official URL: https://doi.org/10.4018/979-8-3693-2577-3.ch016
URI: https://pure.jgu.edu.in/id/eprint/7900

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