YPP E-Newsletter for July-August 2007
If we are to consider the growing number of requests for TAO-Pilipinas to facilitate exposure and orientation activities for students, one can perhaps assume this to be an indication that service-orientation is not utterly lacking in today’s academic training. The opportunity to anchor students’ academic or scholarly efforts on real-life conditions, especially of those in the marginalized sectors, is one need that TAO tries to respond to.
And so we welcome these requests for students to visit poor communities and talk to people’s organizations, in the anticipation that whatever body of knowledge they do produce, the communities may also learn from. Besides, it’s a waste of the students’ efforts if their theses or researches will just gather dust on library shelves when these could potentially be useful to communities in their development initiatives or lead them to better living conditions. Almost always, students come out of these visits overwhelmed by realities of the living conditions in urban poor communities but with clearer direction in the work that they plan to do for the semester. And for us who facilitate these visits, we look forward to their realization that a thesis or research study is worth more than just a grade for one semester.
In this month’s e-newsletter:
- TAO holds culminating activity for YP interns
- Foreign and local student-researchers visit TAO project sites
- YP reflections by Ownery Rose Diala ยท
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