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Students of St. Xavier College pose for a photograph during a trip, on bicycles, to Phajang village in Jalukie in Peren district.[/caption]
Dimapur, Aug. 2 (EMN): In what can be termed as a novel effort of seeking education beyond the four walls of the classroom, the students of St. Xavier College, Jalukie has started a ‘bicycle outreach program’ where the students visit villages and communities on bicycles ‘to learn, interact and teach depending on the occasion’.
A press release issued by Wizol of the Sociology Dept. of the college, termed the new outreach program as a new track reaching out to village on bicycles and an effort towards ‘education beyond the four walls’.
She stated that the trips have been many and the most recent visit was to Phajang village by the Sociology students who were led by Asst. Prof. Seboi.
Saying that the students spent quality time through these activities, the release stated that the students visited the village making a survey and ‘finding for themselves a lot to learn’.
The release also stated that the students, apart from the academic trips, make efforts to reach out to the students in the villages on Sundays using the opportunity of the trips to train and teach the children.
Saying that such activities make the students of the college to grow with a sense of responsibility, the release stated that the students have realised with joy that these are genuine ways to compliment the classroom learning with experiential learning.
This makes them grow with a sense of responsibility and usefulness as part of the society.
The students have realised with joy that these are genuine ways to compliment the classroom learning with experiential learning.
It further maintained that ‘the initiative’ comes very much in response to the repeated demand of the educationists to make learning in the context of social reality, and therefore with the success of the initial trips, the students are determined to make it regular to visit different villages in groups in the days to come.
