FIELD TRIP

 

A field trip is a journey by a group of people to a place away from their normal environment .It eliminates the boredom and brings us to a new world of enthusiasm and exploration.It also helps to make memories that never fade. Field trips are a way of enhancing classroom learning by making real world connections. Field trips expose students to different lifestyles, places and eras.

As part of the B.Ed curriculum, the first year B.Ed students of GCTE went for a field trip on 20 January, 2023. This field trip was included in the community based practical programme of the first semester syllabus. The purpose of the trip is usually for observation for education, non-experimental research or to provide students with experiences outside their everyday activities. All student teachers reached Kuthiramalika,our first destination, around 9: 30 in the morning. Jayakrishna teacher of Hindi department, Kumar sir of Tamil department, Anju teacher of Physical Science department, Jolly teacher of Malayalam department, Roshna teacher of Maths department and Rajasree teacher of Natural Science department accompanied us.

Kuthiramalika, Sri Chitra Art Gallery and Palm-Leaf Manuscript Museum in Thiruvananthapuram are the places selected for our educational purpose.

Kuthiramalika Palace is one of the architectural wonders in the vast complex of royal buildings situated near the Sree Padmanabhaswamy Temple in Thiruvananthapuram. Built by Sri Swathi Thirunal, Kuthiramalika or Puthenmalika is named after the 122 horses that are carved into the wooden wall brackets that support the southern roof. It is a perfect example of the traditional Kerala style of architecture, and impresses visitors with its intricate carvings, huge pillars and traditional style of flooring. A guided tour is available inside the palace. Kuthiramalika is a perfect venue for those in search of places with historical and architectural significance.

The Sri Chitralayam, popularly known as Sri Chitra Art Gallery, was opened to the public by the erstwhile Maharaja of Travancore Sri Chitra Thirunal on the 25th of September 1935 for the enjoyment, education and development of artistic taste of the people. It has a collection of paintings representing the various genres of paintings in India, along with a few from other parts of Asia with a distinct stamp of Indian culture.

A treasure house of both obscure and celebrated tales of the erstwhile Travancore kingdom that became Asia's first to defeat any European power on Indian soil, the recently opened Palm leaf Manuscript Museum in the Kerala capital has further brightened the state's cultural and academic space.Billed as the world's first palm leaf manuscript museum, the facility is essentially a repository of curious nuggets of administrative, socio-cultural and economic facets of Travancore spanning a period of 650 years till the end of the 19th century, besides documents relating to territories of Kochi in the state's middle and Malabar further north.

Being our first outdoor activity together, it gave us a large opportunity to get in sink together. Team work and team spirit made the trip enthusiastic with the eminent décors of the trip. Kuthiramalika gave us the glory of history of Thiruvananthapuram. The epic decors, designs, weapons, gifts, portraits of great kings, rulers and queens made me overwhelmed. The way the guide described everything before us and led us to the each and every nook was amazing. Art gallery was really a great exploration for us.we explored nurture visual artists, promote their work, and expose them to the public, collectors, media, and cultural institutions.The recently opened Plam leaf Manuscript Museum in the Kerala capital has further brightened the state's cultural and academic space .It was a wonderful experience.