civic engagement (Other Keyword)
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21st-century communication technologies bridge previously unimaginable spatial, cultural, and ideological gaps, without providing young learners with the rational and emotional tools they need to participate in a global society. With its multicultural perspective on the human condition across time and space, historical archaeology is uniquely equipped to fill this void. But the current state of public education ensures that today’s youth are unlikely to get that opportunity, unless we bring it...
The Phoenix Project: Applications of Gamification for Online Civic Engagement (2015)
The MARTA collection, held by Georgia State University, is a large body of legacy archaeological data collected in the late 1970s that documents the history of Atlanta. The current Phoenix project is building on those original efforts and represents an ideal opportunity to explore new praxis-oriented methodologies by making the collection easily accessible to the public as an example of civic engagement through community archaeology outreach. Key to this civic engagement is the digitization of...
Power to the Public: The Community's Role in Collaborative Archeology (2025)
This is a poster submission presented at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In the 1970s, the emergence of public archeology, a discipline within archeology aimed to engage the participation of the public, led many to raise questions about the public’s role in the proper stewardship of cultural materials. The public is encouraged to not only be viewed as the audience, but as equal partners alongside archeologists. With final reporting, analyses, and curation of...
What's So Different About Public History? (2015)
When historical archaeologists discuss public archaeology, does their use of "public" imply the same things as intended by public historians? As more archaeology undergraduate and graduate students are enrolled in public history coursework (and public history students enrolled in archaeology courses), how is this relevant to their training? This paper will provide a brief review of public history’s development as a distinct field, noting current trends in civic engagement. It discusses the...