LFE 201: Live-in-Field Experience

3–14 Jan, 2023. TMSS Technical Institute, Chandpur, Bogura.

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• CAUTION: Always be in GROUPS of five; do NOT go anywhere ALONE.
• Make sure you have gone through this checklist.

• ALL STUDENTS MUST REPORT AT IUB BY 6:30 AM, 3 JAN, MONDAY.

1. Khan Asad, PhD, Physical Sciences, SETS (Coordinator).
2. Jewel Kumar Ghosh, PhD, Physical Sciences, SETS.
3. Asif Mahmood, PhD, Computer Science, SETS.
4. Nasrin Akhter, PhD, Pharmacy, SPPH.
5. Akib Bin Rahman, PhD, Pharmacy, SPPH.

Students have to perform field work following PRA (Participatory Rural Appraisal) on 5 topics.

During the morning session between 9 am and 1 pm, students will conduct field work in the village ‘paras’ assigned to them. The field work includes resource mapping, transect walk, getting familiar with the villagers, listening to their stories, and filling up a questionnaire based on their answers.

In the evening session, between 6 and 8 pm, students will have to give presentations on each of the 5 aforementioned topics. Four parts of the survey correspond to the first four topics. The second topic has an added questionnaire in google form and the final topic (rural market) questionnaire has to be improvised.

Note that although the questionnaire survey does not have any preset schedule, the presentations do have a schedule. You can ask the villagers questions from any part of the questionnaire on a given day, but make sure that you have enough material on a particular topic before the scheduled presentation of that topic.

Any 6–7 days between 4 Jan and 11 Jan.

The breakfast, lunch and snacks times are the same for the other days.

During the other 3–4 days, students will go to a study tour or work in group or rest or prepare and give the final presentation.

Attendance will be taken on all 10 days.

Introduction and Conclusion must be written by the five students of the group together. The 5 chapters in between will be written by the five members individually.

Your field work in the villages will follow the method of Participatory Rural Appraisal. Please go to the link given in the previous sentence for finding the details of the method.

Each group will prepare a poster on a single large chart paper every day. They have to present the poster in front of all students, monitors and faculties and answer questions if asked.

Five minutes will be given for presentation and 2 minutes for questions and answers.

In total there will be 5 daily presentations on the 5 topics of the final report.

Students can draw maps, tables, histograms, pie charts, bar charts and/or line charts on the chart paper using markers and pencils.

Students should use their daily journal as notes for the daily presentation. So please finish writing the journal before the presentation.

Every student has to keep a daily journal. They will write what they have done, learned and concluded in a given day. The journal must be finished before the daily presentation at 6 pm. Faculties will check the journal of a randomly selected student from each group during their daily presentation.

In the final presentation, students will combine the knowledge of the previous 5 presentations to give an overview of what their objectives were and what have been the outcomes.

The objectives will be described in the introduction of the report later.

The outcomes will be described in the conclusion of the report later.

1. LFE Booklet: Please read this booklet to get an understanding of the aims and objectives of LFE and learn to appraise and criticize the objectives.
2. Questionnaire: to be used for Participatory Rural Appraisal during field work in various village households.
3. Presentations for the orientation: Overview; Village mapping and transect.

The IUB code of conduct will be applicable for the 12 days. Any violation will be put forward to and investigated by the proctorial body and the Gender and Sexual Harassment Body of IUB. On top of the usual code of conduct, the following rules are to be followed especially for LFE. The rules are divided into three categories based on the severity of the punishment.

The following acts and/or behavior will result in an F grade and expulsion from the LFE venue.

1. Possession or use of alcohol and any hard or soft drug. Male and female faculty members and monitors will check the luggage and rooms of the male and female students, respectively.
2. Sexual harassment. The Gender and Sexual Harassment Committee of IUB will be notified for further investigation.
3. Violating ‘separate rooms’ policy: women and men will live in separate rooms; women cannot go to male rooms, and vice versa.
4. Smoking in the village.
5. Going outside the premises (TMSS Technical Institute) without permission from a faculty member.

1. Any games where water, rong or anything else is thrown at each other.
2. Fireworks.
3. Flying fanus.

1. Bullying.
2. Not respecting rural culture.
3. Smoking outside the ‘smoking zone’.
4. Misbehavior with faculties, monitors or fellow students.

1. Never enter a village, para or home alone; always go everywhere in groups of 5.
2. Appropriate clothes inside premises.
3. Village-appropriate clothes during field work.
4. Only parents can visit, but only upon appointment with faculty members.
5. You cannot go out of the venue with parents.
6. Security of expensive cameras is your own responsibility.
7. Do not take picture of a human without consent.
8. Always wear IUB id card.

1. No running hot water, but hot water will be provided from a reservoir.
2. Washing can be done upon payment.
3. You can buy your own snacks.
4. It is much colder in Bogura than in Dhaka; take specially warm clothes.