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Teaching and Learning the Archaeology of the Contemporary Era
About this book
The tools and techniques of archaeology were designed for the study of past people and societies, but for more than a century a growing number of archaeologists have turned these same tools to the study of the modern world. This book offers an overview of these pioneering practices through a specifically pedagogical lens, fostering an appreciation of the diversity and distinctiveness of contemporary archaeology and providing an evidence base for course proposals and curriculum design.
Although research in the field is well established and vibrant, making critical contributions to wider debates around issues such as homelessness, migration and the refugee crisis, and legacies of war and conflict, the teaching of contemporary archaeology in universities has until recently been relatively limited in comparison. This selection of carefully curated case studies from as far afield as Orkney, Iran and the USA is intended as a resource and an inspiration for both teachers and students, presenting a set of tools and practices to borrow, modify and apply in new contexts. It demonstrates how interdisciplinarity, practical work and radical pedagogies are of value not only for archaeology, but also for fields such as history, geography and anthropology, and suggests new ways in which we can examine our 20th- and 21st-century existence and shape our collective future.
Although research in the field is well established and vibrant, making critical contributions to wider debates around issues such as homelessness, migration and the refugee crisis, and legacies of war and conflict, the teaching of contemporary archaeology in universities has until recently been relatively limited in comparison. This selection of carefully curated case studies from as far afield as Orkney, Iran and the USA is intended as a resource and an inspiration for both teachers and students, presenting a set of tools and practices to borrow, modify and apply in new contexts. It demonstrates how interdisciplinarity, practical work and radical pedagogies are of value not only for archaeology, but also for fields such as history, geography and anthropology, and suggests new ways in which we can examine our 20th- and 21st-century existence and shape our collective future.
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Yes, you can access Teaching and Learning the Archaeology of the Contemporary Era by Gabriel Moshenska in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Sciences sociales & Enseignement des arts et des sciences humaines. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half-Title Page
- Dedication
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Contents
- List of Figures
- Notes on Contributors
- Introduction: Pedagogy in Contemporary Archaeology
- Part One Course and Curriculum Development
- 1 Contemporary Art and Archaeology: Interdisciplinary Pedagogy and Practice in the Digital University
- 2 Documenting Wesley College: A Mildly Anarchist Teaching Encounter
- 3 Teaching Contemporary Archaeology: The Durham Experience
- Part Two Pedagogical Practices
- 4 The Henge with a Postcode: The Benefits of Contemporary Archaeology Fieldtrips
- 5 Draw Your Phone: The Cellphone as an Intimate, Everyday Artefact
- 6 Walking and Talking around the Bombsites of Bloomsbury
- Part Three Working with Communities
- 7 Over, Under and In Between: Collaborative Learning from Landscapes using Contemporary Archaeology
- 8 Teaching and Learning Difficult Pasts of the Twentieth Century through Community Archaeology
- 9 Beyond Zinjanthropus: Historical Archaeology Pedagogy in Tanzania
- Part Four The Personal and the Political
- 10 ‘We Want School!’ Teaching and Learning Contemporary Archaeology with Displaced People in Anarchist-Adjacent Spaces in Athens, Greece
- 11 Archaeologies of the Contemporary World – A Chancy Business?
- 12 Education Is Life: Collective Experiences of Practising the Archaeology of the Contemporary Past in a Conservative Atmosphere
- Index
- Copyright