Archaeological Pedagogy (Other Keyword)
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There are few formal field schools in the United States where students can receive formal training in tribal historic preservation, community-based collaboration, and archaeological field methods. Given the increasing role of consultation and collaboration in disciplinary practice, learning to effectively communicate and build relationships with a Tribal Historic Preservation Office (THPO) and/or tribal community is a critical skill. The Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde Community of Oregon’s...
Remaking Archaeology: Assessing Impacts of Collaborative Indigenous Methodologies on Mohegan Archaeology (2018)
For over twenty years, the Mohegan Archaeological Field School (Mohegan Reservation, Uncasville, CT) has combined indigenous knowledge, sensitivities, interests, and needs with archaeological perspectives. The current iteration of the field school works specifically to bring Mohegan knowledge and archaeology into critical dialogue with academic research and teaching, focusing on the excavation and analysis of archaeological sites from the 18th and early 19th centuries. This poster emphasizes...
Sense of Belonging and Self-Efficacy: How the Field School Experience Change Students’ Views of Their Abilities in Archaeology (2022)
This is a poster submission presented at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Educational researchers have found that when undergraduate students participate in field-based learning, students frequently show increases in several socioemotional measures associated with positive learning outcomes including increases in self-efficacy and sense of belonging. We measured archaeological self-efficacy and sense of belonging among students before and after participation in...