2. UTILISING COMMUNITY RESOURCES
INTRODUCTION
A new trend that is visible in our educational programme, these days, is the
central role assigned to the community. It is now emphasized that the education
should be of the community. By the community and for the community. This aim
can be achieved by the bringing the community and school closer to each other.
If we want to make education. A living experience for the children then it is
possible only if the education is given in community at large instead of our
schools. Most of his time is spent by the child in community and so it is desirable
to make community as a laboratory for the laboratory for the child, an effort be
made to give the child a large number of living experiences.
This reorientation will provide the nation the vigor, life and power, which
will help to sustain not any individual but also the nation as a whole. To bring
about this reorientation the schools have to give up to their isolation and adopt a
new role i.e. the role of community schools. It requires that the barrier between
school and community. Such a school flow will help each other and the school
and the community will be complementary to each other. For achieving
unification between the school and the community we may allow the direct
3. participation of school in community life. With such participation school may
help to provide solution to vital problems, confronting the community.
Community as an important source of education
Community is the most resource for the education of the child. It is the child’s
laboratory .It provides the child the first and learning experience about the ways
of living.It is through active participation in community life that a child learns
and develops the basic concept of history, geography, economics, transportation,
communication etc., including various aspects of living in a community. The
community life provides the child various opportunities which help child develop
an insight in to the reasons and conditions which contribute to changes in social
life. from such experience child makes generalization about his community and
tries to make a comparison between the ways of living of his community with
those of some other communities .A larger number of experience of the child
with his own community helps him to understand in a better way the ways of
4. living in other places and other communities which may be living in different
parts of the world.
The community is a treasure hose of rich and varied sources
and can so it can enrich and supplement learning in Social Studies. To fully
utilize the community resource an important role has to be played by teachers,
administrators, local citizens, parents and pupils .Only a well-planned
programme can bring both the school and community close to each other. The
programme be planned in such a way that it brings the school and community
quite close to each other. The first hand knowledge that a child acquires by his
community experiences helps him in becoming an intelligent citizen.
The community provides a connection between the past and
the present and it inspires men everywhere. It has a dignity and a meaning. If
teacher fails to make full use of the community in which his school is situated
than he is over-looking one of the richest sources of education for his pupils.
The community provides a connection between the past and present and it
inspires men everywhere. It has a dignity and a meaning. If teacher fails to make
full use of the community in which his school is situated than he is over looking
one of the richest sources of education for his pupils.
5. For utilizing community resources fully the school should take itself to the
community and consider the community as a big laboratory for the education of
its pupils. While working in the community the student gets opportunities to
explore not only physical setting but also the human setting. in population,and
other considerations physical setting are included size, climate, topography, soil,
numerals and other similar problems. In human setting are include th people
inhabitating that community. it will also include those problems that relate to
population, health, education, occupation an other consideration that results in
class an caste structures.
IMPORTANT COMMUNITY RESOURCES
6. To make best use of the available community resources, the teacher should help
his pupils to catalogue the available resources before proceeding to study them.
The catalogue should include every information available about the places that
can enrich instructions in social studies. Each place be listed separately with
maximum possible information about its name. Location, route to reach the place,
persons to be contacted, most appropriate time to visit the place, the resources
and the materials of study available, expenses likely to be incurred etc.
Places of geographical interest
Planetarium
A planetarium is a theatre built primarily for presenting educational and
entertaining shows about astronomy and the night sky, or for training in celestial
navigation.
A dominant feature of most planet aria is the large dome-shaped projection
screen onto which scenes of stars, planet and other celestial objects can be made
to appear and move realistically to simulate the complex 'motions of the heavens'.
The celestial scenes can be created using a wide variety of technologies, for
example precision-engineered 'star balls' that combine optical and electro-mechanical
technology, slide projector. video and full dome projector systems,
7. and lasers. Whatever technologies are used, the objective is normally to link them
together to provide an accurate relative motion of the sky. Typical systems can be
set to display the sky at any point in time, past or present, and often to show the
night sky as it would appear from any point of latitude on Earth.
Planetaria range in size from the Hayden Planetarium 21-meter dome seating
423 people, to three-meter inflatable portable domes where children sit on the
floor. Such portable planetaria serve education programs outside of the
permanent installations of museums and science centers.
The term planetarium is sometimes used generically to describe other devices
which illustrate the solar system, such as a computer simulation or an orrery.
Planetarium software refers to a software application that renders a three-dimensional
image of the sky onto a two-dimensional computer screen. The term
planetarium is used to describe a member of the professional staff of a
planetarium.
The term planetarium is sometimes used generically to describe other devices
which illustrate the solar system, such as a computer simulation or an orrery.
Planetarium software refers to a software application that renders a three-dimensional
image of the sky onto a two-dimensional computer screen. The term
8. planetarium is used to describe a member of the professional staff of a
planetarium.
Inside a planetarium projection hall
9. Inside the same hall during projection.
MUSEUM
A museum is an institution that cares for (conserves) a collection of artifacts and
other objects of scientific, artistic, cultural, or historical importance and makes
them available for public viewing through exhibits that may be permanent or
temporary. Most large museums are located in major cities throughout the world
and more local ones exist in smaller cities, towns and even the countryside.
Museums have varying aims, ranging from serving researchers and specialists to
serving the general public. The continuing acceleration in the digitization of
information, combined with the increasing capacity of digital information
storage, is causing the traditional model of museums (i.e. as static “collections of
collections” of three-dimensional specimens and artifacts) to expand to include
virtual exhibits and high-resolution images of their collections for perusal, study,
and exploration from any place with Internet. The city with the largest number of
museums is Mexico City with over 128 museums. According to The World
Museum Community, there are more than 55,000 museums in 202 countries.
The purpose of modern museums is to collect, preserve, interpret, and display
items of cultural, artistic, or scientific significance for the education of the public.
The purpose can also depend on one’s point of view. To a family looking for
10. entertainment on a Sunday afternoon, a trip to a local history museum or large
city art museum could be a fun, and enlightening way to spend the day. To city
leaders, a healthy museum community can be seen as a gauge of the economic
health of a city, and a way to increase the sophistication of its inhabitants. To a
museum professional, a museum might be seen as a way to educate the public
about the museum’s mission, such as civil rights or environmentalism. Museums
are, above all, storehouses of knowledge. In 1829, James Smithson’s bequest, that
would fund the world famous Smithsonian Institution, stated he wanted to
establish an institution “for the increase and diffusion of knowledge. ” Museums
of natural history in the late 19th century exemplified the Victorian desire for
consumption and for order. Gathering all examples of each classification of a
field of knowledge for research and for display was the purpose. As American
colleges grew in the 19th century, they developed their own natural history
collections for the use of their students. By the last quarter of the 19th century,
the scientific research in the universities was shifting toward biological research
on a cellular level, and cutting edge research moved from museums to university
laboratories. While many large museums, such as the Smithsonian Institution, are
still respected as research centers, research is no longer a main purpose of
museums. While there is an ongoing debate about the purposes of interpretation
of a museum’s collection, there has been a consistent mission to protect and
11. preserve artifacts for future generations. Much care, expertise, and expense is
invested in preservation efforts to retard decomposition in aging documents,
artifacts, artworks, and buildings. All museums display objects that are important
to a culture. As historian Steven Conn writes, “To see the thing itself, with one’s
own eyes and in a public place, surrounded by other people having some version
of the same experience can be enchanting. ”
Museum purposes vary from institution to institution. Some favor education over
conservation, or vice versa. For example, in the 1970s, the Canada Science and
Technology Museum favored education over preservation of their objects. They
displayed objects as well as their functions. One exhibit featured a historic
printing press that a staff member used for visitors to create museum
memorabilia. Some seek to reach a wide audience, such as a national or state
museum, while some museums have specific audiences, like the LDS Church
History Museum or local history organizations. Generally speaking, museums
collect objects of significance that comply with their mission statement for
conservation and display. Although most museums do not allow physical contact
with the associated artifacts, there are some that are interactive and encourage a
more hands-on approach. In 2009, Hampton Court Palace, palace of Henry VIII,
opened the council room to the general public to create an interactive
environment for visitors. Rather than allowing visitors to handle 500 year old
12. objects, the museum created replicas, as well as replica costumes. The daily
activities, historic clothing, and even temperature changes immerse the visitor in
a slice of what Tudor life may have been.
CONCLUSION
The idea of making community the best of the school and the school of the best of
the community represents a fruitful and essential extension of accepted
educational thinking and practice. In order to nourish and invigorate democracy,
community study and service through school education must be made essential.
This movement is the most significant single development of its kind in our
generation, and it seems destined to grow greatly with continuing sound
experimentation at all school levels, in all teaching fields, with all types of
students an in all community areas local, regional, national and international.
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