Name of the Activity: Educational Tour

Date of activity: 04-04-2018

Number of students participated in the activity: 30

Teacher Guide: Pranab Kumar Saikia, Mayashree Buragohain. , Monmoyuri Gogoi.

Introduction:

Educational tours for students provide them with an opportunity to collaborate with teachers, an integrate new perspectives with informal environments to enhance learning initiatives. Among  the many educational tour benefits, skill development is the most important. In order to meet several educational tour objectives, students need to apply skills, values and general knowledge in new settings. keeping in view the department of Sociology, CKB College, Teok organized an educational tour to  Toklai Tea Research Centre, Kaziranga University and  Sukapha Maidan, Jorhat on 4th April, 2018.

Objectives:

1.      Learning is the process of acquiring new knowledge or modifying the existing knowledge, skills , behaviours, values or preferences.

2.      It offers perfect informal setup for discussion, dialogues and experiences which helps to developing various life skills.

3.      Deep social and historical knowledge.

4.      Develop critical thinking

5.      Enhances perspective.

Outcome:

1.      As educational tour expose students to different lifestyles, places. By touring the three places students are able to broaden their understanding. They able to introduce and interact with lots of academicians, scholars in various disciplines.

2.      Evidence suggests that field trips stimulate students’ reasoning skills. The team was able to write an essay on Toklai Research Centre, Sukapha memorial House located near the Kaziranga university.

3.      The students showed improvement in critical thinking including ability to describe and comment on Sukapha.

4.      Students can able to know about higher career opportunities, different professionals courses for their future studies.