About

Dr. Tabitha Harriet Bissi Deh is a senior lecturer at the Department of Theatre Arts, School of Performing Arts, University of Ghana, Legon. Her expertise lies in Applied Theatre with explicit emphasis on Drama in Education/Creative Dramatics, Theatre for Development, Drama Therapy and other Expressive Arts Therapies. Her passion is to employ drama as a tool to inform, educate and entertain. She harnesses the entertainment aspect of drama to inspire and promote healing among both regular and people with living with various disabilities. Tabitha believes that everybody that comes into contact with her has a purpose to fulfil, therefore, an eclectic approach to achieving this purpose must be employed. She volunteers and facilitates development programs for children with special needs especially children with cognitive impairment. Tabitha has taught at various levels with passion and intense curiosity before joining the University of Ghana. Her yearning desire has always been to offer her students and mentees the opportunity to find their unique purposes in life. In order to make her work holistic, she has studied, Education, Drams/Theatre, Guidance and Counseling, Special Education and Clinical Psychology. Tabitha has directed many plays and facilitated numerous community projects. She has twelve Journal Articles to her credit. Tabitha enjoys teaching and her other hobbies include reading, dancing and gardening.

Education

1. PhD in Theatre Arts, University of Ghana – Legon.
2. (MFA) in Theatre Arts, University of Ghana – Legon
3. Diploma in Theatre Arts, University of Ghana – Legon

(Others) 

1. Exchange Program for PhD Students,  Tufts University- USA.
2. Summer School for PhD Students, University of Cape Town- South Africa.
3. Teacher’s Cert. “A” Post – Sec, Ghana Education Service- Mount Mary College Somanya.
4. GCE “O” Level , Peki Secondary School.
5. Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE). Peki Experimental Junior Secondary School.

Research Interest

Applied Theatre - Drama in Education, Drama Therapy and other Expressive Arts Therapies, Community Development programs and facilitating and working with Persons with Disabilities (PWD) and Special Needs (SN). 

Publications

Deh, T. H. (2023) Teaching Drama in Education in the University of Ghana: My Perspectives about Ghanaian Indigenous Games, Youth Theatre Journal (YTJ) Routledge: Taylor & Francis Group, American Alliance Theatre & Education (AATE) 14(1) 1-11. 

Appia-Adjei, D. & Deh, T. H. (2023) Drama and Disability in Africa: Analyzing Abdallah’s ‘The Witch of Mopti.’ American Research Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences, 9(1), 35–42.

Aflakpui, B. A., Deh T. H., Sennah, G. K. J & Otabil J. (2023) The iconography and iconography of Adinkrah symbols: An authentic source of themes for teaching drama in education at the University of Ghana. American Research Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences, 9(1), 45–51. 

Bissi Deh, T.H. (2020) Looking through the Eyes of the Cognitive Impaired in Ghana: The creative Connections and the Expressive Arts in Context, Elixir International Journal; Elixir Social Studies, 140(2020), 54205–54207 

Haruna, B & Bissi Deh, T.H. (2020) Ghana in Search of a Homegrown Pedagogic Approach to Basic Education-Focus on Creative Dramatics. Elixir International Journal, 140(2020) 54208–54213