fieldtrip

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English

Noun

fieldtrip (plural fieldtrips)

  1. Alternative form of field trip.
    • 2006, Carol Brandt, “Narratives of Location: Epistemology and Place in Higher Education”, in George Spindler, Lorie Hammond, editors, Innovations in Educational Ethnography: Theory, Methods, and Results, Mahwah, N.J.: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, →ISBN, part II (Studying “Side by Side”: Ethnographic Applications to Educational Settings), page 322:
      We matched our pace to the measured strides of Patrociño, an elder in the village, who was leading our fieldtrip through the farm. [] Our fieldtrip to Placitas offered students in my ethnobotany class an opportunity to recognize how epistemology in science—the origin, nature, and limits of knowledge—is intimately linked to place.
    • 2007, Nick Ardley, “Early School Days”, in The May Flower: A Barging Childhood, Stroud, Glos.: Tempus, →ISBN, page 87:
      Following our fieldtrips with this teacher, the class persuaded her to get permission from the Head for us to dig a pond; []
    • 2016, Tershia D’Elgin, “The Nuisance of Hindsight”, in The Man Who Thought He Owned Water: On the Brink with American Farms, Cities, and Food, Boulder, Colo.: University Press of Colorado, →ISBN, page 34:
      They told us on our fieldtrips, over and over, that diversion and irrigation had transformed the unyielding desert, not into a sea with barking seals as I’d imagined at the state capitol, but into a high-yielding agrarian economy.