Field trip
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A field trip or excursion is a journey by a group of associated peers, such as co-workers or school students, to a place away from their normal environment for the purpose of education or leisure, either within their country or abroad.
When done by school students as organised by their school administration, as it happens in several school systems, it is also known as school trip in the United Kingdom, Australia, Kenya, New Zealand and Bangladesh, and school tour in Ireland.
A 2022 study, which used randomized controlled trial data, found that culturally enriching field trips led students to show a greater interest in arts, greater tolerance for people with different views, and boosted their educational outcomes.[1]
Overview
The purpose of the field trip is usually observation for education, non-experimental research or to provide students with experiences outside their everyday activities, such as going camping with teachers and their classmates. The aim of this research is to observe the subject in its natural state and possibly collect samples. It is seen that more-advantaged children may have already experienced cultural institutions outside of school, and field trips provide common ground between more-advantaged and less-advantaged children to share the same cultural experiences.[2]
Field trips often involve three steps: preparation, activities and follow-up activity. Preparation applies to both the students and the teachers. Teachers often take the time to learn about the destination and the subject before the trip. Activities on the field trips often include:
In
Popular field trip sites include zoos,
Today, culturally enriching field trips are in decline. Museums across the United States report a steep drop in school tours. For example, the Field Museum in Chicago at one time welcomed more than 300,000 students every year. Recently, the number is below 200,000. Between 2002 and 2007, Cincinnati arts organizations saw a 30 percent decrease in student attendance. A survey by the American Association of School Administrators found that more than half of schools eliminated planned field trips in 2010–11.[2]
Site school
A variation on the field trip is the "site-based program" or "site-school" model, where a class temporarily relocates to a non-school location for an entire week to take advantage of the resources on the site. As with a multi-day field trip, appropriate overnight camping or lodging arrangements are often made to accommodate the experience. The approach was first developed at the
Europe
In Europe, School Trip, a 2002 German-Polish film, describes the German students' trip to Poland during the summer.
School trips in east Asia
In Japan, in addition to the one-day field trip, the school trip, called shūgaku ryokō (
In other Asian regions/countries such as South Korea, Taiwan and Singapore, the school trip, when arranged, tends to become a voluntary part of the school curriculum. When Japan was selected[clarification needed], the Japanese government waived the entry visa.[7]
See also
References
- S2CID 246584945.
- ^ ISSN 1539-9672. Retrieved 4 May 2015.
- ISSN 0892-4996.
- ^ Kulas, Michelle. "What are the Benefits of Field Trips for Children?". How To Adult. Leaf Group. Retrieved 4 March 2015.
- ^ School Excursions, Shugaku-ryoko, 修学旅行 (GoWithGuide, 2021)
- ^ Host short-term tour groups (Shugaku Ryoko) of Japanese K-12 students (BC Counsil for International Education, 2015)
- ^ An Overview of the Educational Trips to Japan (JNTO: Japan National Tourism Organization, 1962) Archived 2023-08-13 at the Wayback Machine (in Japanese)