Says WHO learning only occurs in the classroom settings, huh??? From the Newspapers, translated…
A local youth, Ching-Yuan Chen from Guanfu County in Hualien, found that on the weekends, there was no resources for children to learn, plus, it is, the distant areas, where there’s this lacking of resources too, he’d started up the “Children of Guanfu” team, set up a medium for learning in the community, and started from the arts, to the discussions of current events, and turned the education of the distant areas around.
In order to encourage the members of the younger generation to get into teams and get into the agricultural, the fishers’ villages, as well as distant regions, the tribal areas, to assist with the developments of the community, the Department of Education’s Youth Department had continually sponsored the “Youth Community Involvement Plan”.
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The plan, “Children of Guanfu” called out to youth groups who shared the same ideals, other than accompanying children in the distant regions long-term, it’d also combined the activities of the volunteer organizations of Donghua University, and worked alongside the local farms such as “Daxing Farm”, the Natural Fields of Guanfu, as well as the home ec classes in Daxing college, to help turn over education in the distant areas.
Chen said, that one year in the summer, as he was preparing for the material of his own studies, he’d found, that many children who were “sent in” by the parents rushing to work, either that they’d fought for the computers, or that they’d stared into space in the libraries, and that there’s a lacking of the materials, the resources of education.
The children in the distant regions didn’t have anywhere to go in the summers, so, he team set up a living camp to help solve the problem, using the methods of work-vacation, recruited the employees of the cams, and, during the time of the summer camps, the employees accompanied the children, and the kids led the adults from the outside regions to experience life in their areas, to establish the connections of life in and out of the community, as well as set up rapport between the adults and the children too, through accompanying one another, learned, to experience life.
Chen said, that as children, we’re all like sponges, constantly, absorbing things from the outside world, and, this program is hoping, that in allowing children to get exposed to a wide variety of experiences, they can learn from their experiences, that, is the best kind of knowledge there is.
The “Children Factory” program stepped out of the focuses of the academics too, from the arts and crafts, hands-on, to the discussion of the goings on all around, this year, it’d turned the entire Guanfu County into a classroom in itself, using the natural planting methods, to get to know how the foods came about, “Heading into the Fields group”, as well as the group that opened up that window to observation “the Filming Crews”, helping the children connect to nature and their own families, so they can have a multisensory experience in learning.
So, the thought of this program is to enrich the lives of children from the distant regions, and, it’s still all the thought of this youth that saw a need, and, worked hard, to provide, to come up with the plans, to help the children in his locale get the education, the experiences that they would need, to help them succeed in life. The wonderful mind of someone who’d taught about the values of life, but without the teaching certificates.
Life, the Obstacle Course 