Education/Pedagogy (Other Keyword)
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This is an abstract from the "Pedagogy in the Undergraduate Archaeology Classroom" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. After three decades of teaching archaeology courses at the college level, students still ask me about my views on Sasquatch, aliens, and intelligent design. In fact, these questions come up more frequently now than they ever had in the past. Those of us who teach archaeology are faced with a paradox: while current advancements in...
Teaching Archaeology in Virtual Reality: Project Ambrosia (2019)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Field schools have been the best way to provide hands-on experience with archaeological fieldwork in an environment geared to student learning. However, field schools are beyond the financial and logistical reach of many students, particularly first-generation students and those from underrepresented groups. The decreasing costs and increasing accessibility of...
Teaching Climate Change in Red States (2018)
Although scientific consensus was reached on the issue of human-made climate change earlier this century, it continues to be a controversial subject in the public sphere. Archaeologists, as scientists interested in a longue durée approach to human society and the environment, have thus been thrust into another ideological battlefield as hard-fought as the theory of evolution by natural selection, but with perhaps graver consequences. As we move fully into the Capitalocene, it is of the utmost...
Teaching Curation: Using Collections to Foster Disciplinary Reflection and Research Opportunities among Undergraduates (2024)
This is an abstract from the "Archaeology to Transform and Disrupt: Teaching, Learning, and the Pedagogies of the Future" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Despite decades-long acknowledgment of a curation crisis, undergraduate education in archaeology continues to emphasize excavation as central to the discipline and to our understanding of the past. Moreover, lab classes that emphasize analytical skills are more common than those that teach...
Teaching from the Trenches: Graduate Student Pedagogy in the Undergraduate Archaeology Classroom (2023)
This is an abstract from the "Pedagogy in the Undergraduate Archaeology Classroom" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Graduate students occupy a unique space in undergraduate archaeological education. We serve as teaching assistants, field school instructors, and trusted mentors to our undergraduate students, yet unlike professors, we are not viewed as commensurate authorities in the classroom. Simultaneously, we are positioned professionally as...
Teaching History with Digital Historical Games (2019)
This is an abstract from the "From Tomb Raider to Indiana Jones: Pitfalls and Potential Promise of Archaeology in Pop Culture" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Digital games and simulations based on historical themes or settings have been used in school classrooms for more than 50 years, however, still key questions concerning their representational appropriateness, educational effectiveness, and practical implementation remain largely unanswered....
Teaching Scientific Anthropology in the Age of Trump: Towards a Pedagogy of Science Literacy and Advocacy (2018)
The year 2017 was one of extraordinary science activism. Scientists took to the streets as the overwhelming empirical evidence demonstrating humanity’s role in ushering in global warming continued to be ignored. Politicization of climate change, and science itself, has fostered a dangerous rejection of scientific knowledge prompting numerous conspiracy theories involving everything from so-called flat-earthers to anti-vaxxers, intelligent design proponents and climate deniers. Such perilous and...
Teaching Tree Rings: Dendroarchaeology for Outreach and Education (2023)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Dendroarchaeology, the use of tree-ring analyses to understand past human societies, is an excellent subfield by which to introduce students and the public to archaeological science because of its accessibility: trees are a visible part of many peoples’ daily lives, and people often have basic knowledge of tree growth that can be drawn on to introduce the...
Teaching With Collections: The Power of Object-Based Pedagogies (2024)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Collection-based pedagogies present an exciting platform for active, inquiry-based learning and advancing the goals of equitable teaching. They engage interactive, critical, reflective, creative, affective, and other approaches that anchor learning and build community in the tangible, physical presence of objects. This presentation is about teaching with,...
Team-Based Learning in AN 101: Introduction to Archaeology & Biological Anthropology (2018)
Team-Based Learning (TBL), a powerful pedagogical tool, has several essential elements: forming permanent teams; flipping the classroom; a specific sequence of individual work and teamwork; and immediate feedback. As a polar opposite of the traditional "sage on the stage" pedagogy, there are advantages and disadvantages for implementation of TBL in a moderate-sized (50+ students) introductory course. Specifics of the implementation are discussed for this first time use of TBL in AN 101 and...
“There Are No Living Indians”: Exploring the Inadequacies of Education in the US Midwest Regarding Native Americans (2023)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In the US Midwest, most students are exposed only briefly to the precontact history in the fourth grade and then not again unless they opt for archaeology as an elective in college. The Ohio Board of Education requires teachers to merely state that American Indians lived in Ohio, participated in the War of 1812, and then died or left the area....
There Is Much Else that May Be Told: Lessons in Navigating Nontraditional Career Paths in Anthropology, Archaeology, and Beyond (2024)
This is an abstract from the "There and Back Again: Celebrating the Career and Ongoing Contributions of Patricia B. Richards" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Throughout her career, Patricia B. Richards has held many prominent positions within and adjacent to conventional academic anthropology, among them senior scientist, adjunct curator, principal investigator, and associate director of an archaeological research laboratory. While these positions...
Time Jumpers: Community-Based Approaches to Archaeology in the Classroom (2019)
This is an abstract from the "Touching the Past: Public Archaeology Engagement through Existing Collections" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Unearthing Detroit Project is a collections-based research and public archaeology initiative focused on the historical collections housed in the Grosscup Museum of Anthropology at Wayne State University. Reflecting on our experiences and integrated feedback has allowed Unearthing Detroit to consider the...
Touching the Colors of the Past: Ochre Painting Workshops at the Origins Centre Museum, South Africa (2024)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Ochre is a colorful thread that meanders through our human story. This iron-rich pigmentous rock became habitually used by Homo sapiens during the Late Pleistocene in Africa. It was later used in the creation of rock art paints, and is still used around the world in various ways. Ochre painting workshops are offered at Origins Centre Museum in...
Training Students: Collaboration across the Academic Divide (2023)
This is an abstract from the "The Future of Education and Training in Archaeology" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. A familiar refrain among archaeologists working outside of academia is the myriad of training shortcomings in higher education anthropology programs. There is no doubt that there is room for improvement within the academy. However, there is also room for CRM, state, and federal archaeologists to collaborate in training students more...
Transformations in Professional Archaeology (2024)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Most professionals in archaeology emerge from educational centers hosted within departments of Anthropology, where the four field approach has dominated training. Market forces and preference for the STEM fields are now constraining educational opportunities for the humanities and social sciences. Declines in post-secondary enrollment, programs unable or...
The Transformative Power of Learning Assemblages, Relational Pedagogies, and Universal Design for Learning in Archaeology (2024)
This is an abstract from the "Archaeology to Transform and Disrupt: Teaching, Learning, and the Pedagogies of the Future" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In our collaborative work, Karina Croucher and I have developed a pedagogy that we have called an inclusive learning assemblage approach (Cobb and Croucher 2020). We have argued that archaeology is powerfully placed to deliver teaching and learning that foregrounds the lived experiences of our...
Trials and Tribulations: Navigating Instruction of Archaeology Courses for Rising Scholars in a Post-Pandemic Educational Environment (2024)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. On October 6, 2021, California's Governor Newsom signed in law AB 417 - Rising Scholars Network: Justice-Involved Students. The purpose of this bill was to expand higher educational opportunities for and reduce equity gaps among Rising Scholars (students who have formerly experienced incarceration or are currently incarcerated). At Palo Verde College,...
Tweeting the Flood: Student Social Media Fieldwork and Interactive Community Building (2018)
This paper will discuss hands-on uses of social media to help students engage with climate change. A central case study is an interdisciplinary design course on the Mississippi River and the city, taught in spring 2011 by coauthor Patrick Nunnally in which students confronted historic floods on the Mississippi River in real time through a series of twitter assignments. The analysis will discuss how the assignments were set up and carried out, what happened, and what the outcomes were, in...
Twentynine Wash Excavations and Collaboration AZ BB: 5:127 (ASM) (2019)
This is an abstract from the "Community Matters: Enhancing Student Learning Opportunities through the Development of Community Partnerships" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Pima Community College archaeology program has conducted field work at AZ BB: 5:127 (ASM), the Twentynine Wash site, intermittently since 1997. The Twentynine Wash site is a large Hohokam habitation site that lies in the western foothills of the Santa Catalina Mountains...
Undergraduate Reflections on Archaeological Ceramics through Experimental Archaeology (2024)
This is an abstract from the "Experimental Pedagogies: Teaching through Experimental Archaeology Part 1" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Undergraduate ceramic archaeological instruction is built around the common, and often taken for granted, categories of raw materials, functional forms, and decorative characteristics. As students, we primarily study these categories to classify materials in field and laboratory settings with little time or...
Understanding the Forecasted Labor Shortage: Undergraduate Views of Archaeological Careers (2024)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. There is a projected dearth of qualified archaeological professionals in the coming decade. As such, it becomes essential to discover the underlying causes of a lack of interest in pursuing a career in archaeology among individuals otherwise interested in the field. Social cognitive career theory posits that self-efficacy, expected outcomes, and goal...
Unearthing Potential: Using Earth Rock Ovens as a High-Impact Practice in the Undergraduate Archaeology Course (2024)
This is an abstract from the "AI-Proof Learning: Food-Centered Experimental Archaeology in the Classroom" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. High-impact practices (HIPs) using hands-on activities, experiential learning, and collaborative learning employ methods that educators in archaeology have already been using for decades. The pedagogical push to use HIPs recently involves widespread recognition that not only do these methods work to engage...
Unprecedented Times Lead to New Internship Strategies (2021)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2021: General Sessions" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the North American Archaeology Lab at the American Museum of Natural History transitioned a long running internship program to a remote micro-internship. We had to consider if offering a remote internship was feasible, what it would require on our end, what projects could be done remotely, what the interns would get out of...
The Uprising: A Role-Playing Game as an Educational Aid in an Archaeology Seminar Course (2024)
This is an abstract from the "Leveling Up: Gaming and Game Design in Archaeological Education and Outreach" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In this paper, I discuss an analog role-playing game (RPG) entitled “The Uprising,” which I designed for an undergraduate university course on the archaeology of the senses. I reflect on how gaming in the classroom builds on recent pedagogical research and promotes participation not possible with traditional...