Engaging Students Through Visual Media: Incorporating Film Adaptations of The Blue Umbrella by Ruskin Bond in the Classroom

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If pedagogy is to be made effective and interesting in the classroom, different strategies and techniques are to be adopted in the teaching learning process. To teach literary text, we have many ways and methods and we have many texts on which film and video versions are available. So teaching through film adaptations is one of the best ways for effective classroom teaching. Here in this paper an attempt is made to understand how the integration of film versions of texts can make our teaching learning process more effective and interesting. Here we try to understand how the novella The Blue Umbrella by Ruskin Bond and the filmy version of this text by Vishal Bhardwaj can be integrated in the classroom for the outcome of effective result by enjoying literary text and filmy version. The paper also focuses on language learning aspects keeping in mind that through film adaptation can encourage students to make their English language learning easy. It also helps to understand and absorb the language to the subconscious mind. Students find the visual forms more engaging and interesting. So with this method we can harness this interest for language proficiency through visual art. This paper also talks about the teacher's role to bridge the gap between visual art and literary art. Teachers can make literary text more engaging and interesting using films. The Blue Umbrella belongs to children's literature. So it’s comparatively quite easy and understandable for any student and the filmy version of this text makes the teacher’s task easier. Students can absorb everything very easily be it story or characters, language and style of the writer. Teacher’s role here is just a helper. Whenever students find anything difficult, the teacher can help them with regard to language and story. So with this integration we can focus more on other aspects of literary and visual art. Students can understand and differentiate various art forms. They can easily compare different art forms and with this artistic bent of mind can be developed among students.

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