Learning
Experience in India
– A Report on Naesey by students of York University,
UK
In June 2009 Dr. Graham Hamilton and two psychology
students visited the interior villages of Tamil
Nadu to experience the life while working on a project
related to social studies. Report by students Gavin
Lewis and Lucy Horn from York University UK is as
follows.
What
we researched was different and challenging compared
to doing research in England. We moved around every
corner of the villages at Arakkonam in Tamilnadu,
India . We aimed to research how the small rural
communities located near the major city Chennai
worked and operated, in some cases this involved
looking at the supply chains for certain local businesses.
The main focus of our research was
on what seemed a relatively small organisation but
turned out to be very widespread throughout the
Tamil Nadu region. This organisation, called NAESEY
(New Era Association of Educated Self Employed Youth)
was established three decades before, mainly to
promote self-employment opportunities for the unemployed
but educated youth.
