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Fieldwork
After reading this chapter, you will be conversant with:
- Visit to a local area to document environmental studies of river, forest, grassland, hill, mountain
- Visit to a local polluted site—urban, rural, industrial, agricultural
- Study of common plants, insects, birds
- Study of simple ecosystem—ponds, rivers, hill, slopes and so on
- Fieldwork is equal to 15 lecture hours
FIELDWORK, VALUE OF FIELDWORK AND STEPS FOR A SUCCESSFUL FIELDWORK
Vibasi has defined fieldwork as ‘the practical education which a person receives by going to the field himself. The education is not drawn from the leaves of books but from the observation of things through his sense organs. It is the first hand knowledge’.
In fact, seeing is better than learning. We ...
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