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26 The Audio-Visual Handbook
The School Journey
The school journey or field trip, as it is often called, is a school exercise designed to provide sensory experience relative to such phenomena as cannot be brought into the schoolroom. It involves the conducting of pupils to places where the subject matter of instruction — scenes, objects, situations, relationships, etc. — may be studied to the greatest advantage.
1. The school journey contributes meaningful instruction to practically every subject*.
(a) The objectives of art are the more readily realized through visits to churches, galleries, scenic spots, landscapes, beautiful architecture, model buildings and homes, artistic windows where clothing, home furnishings, etc., are displayed.
(b) Geographical relationships are better understood when children are brought into direct touch with life situations, climate, occupations, means of transportation, communication, etc.
(c) Literature is enriched and the desire to read stimulated through literary rambles — visits to homes of authors, to their resting places, to the spots that inspired their writings. The school journey furnishes a valuable medium in this scheme.
2. Advantages of the school journey.
(a) The school journey is a co-operative enterprise. Teacher and children join in the project with the child the active agent and the teacher the counselor and guide.
(b) Shows phenomena in their natural settings.
(c) Puts children in direct touch, under learning situations, with things, persons, movements, relationships, environments, occupations, trends, functionings.
(d) Shows three dimensions, natural color, qualities, motion, etc.
(e) Offers opportunities for socializing instruction and blending school activities with community life.
(f) Supplies concrete, realistic, meaningful elements.
(g) Connects directly objects of knowledge with their respective symbols.
3. Limitations of the school journey.
(a) Requires a great deal of careful organization. Weather conditions and transportation problems sometimes combine to defeat the purpose of the journey.
:Hoban, C. F., "The School Journey," Educational Monographs, Department of Public Instruction, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.