Dimapur, March 19 (EMN): Peace Channel organised a day programme for teachers of Dimapur district, to enhance and empower the teachers to be competent in their profession.
Dr. Fr. T. C Joseph, principal of NEISSR, Dimapur and founder of Peace Channel, addressed the gathering on principles, values and methods of education. He elucidated the concept with his personal experiences and examples.
He also spoke on various behavioural disorders of students in the class room and how to handle them systematically.
Stressing on the importance of peer mediation in educational institutes and communities, Fr. Anto highlighted the importance, relevant and emergence of peer mediation in the context of Nagaland. He stated that youths take initiatives to resolve the youth issues by themselves in educational institution and community respectively.
Martha Caceres and Mohit from Liverpool Hope University UK, enlightened the participants on Paulo Freire Brazilian Educator. She spoke about peace education as a process of social change by following the critical pedagogy of Paulo Freire on banking system to critical system.
She said it is all about ‘banking’ concept of education, in which the student was viewed as an empty account to be filled by the teacher to transforms students into receiving objects. It attempts to control thinking and action, leads men and women to adjust to the world, and inhibits their creative power, she added.
A total of 15 teachers from nine schools attended the programme. Earlier, welcome address was delivered by Patrick W. Tungoe, researcher Peace Channel while vote of thanks was proposed by Vikhuli Achumi, district coordinator Dimapur.
