Education/Pedagogy (Other Keyword)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Katrina Erickson. William Reitze.

This is an abstract from the "NPS Archeology: Engaging the Public through Education and Recreation" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Beginning in 2012 Petrified Forest National Park developed an archeological internship program designed to bring young professionals into the park for training, education, and outreach with the public. Since then the park has had 31 student interns. The internship program involves students working directly with...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Heather Law Pezzarossi.

This is an abstract from the "Thinking with, through, and against Archaeology’s Politics of Knowledge" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. How can we learn from an object? How is that different from learning about an object? In a class project, I asked students to undo institutionalized silences and challenge dominant narratives with museum objects that appear to be mute. We studied three O'Odham baskets housed at the Syracuse University Art Museum...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Matthew Kroot. Matt Peeples. Jessie Kortscheff.

This is an abstract from the "Training a New Generation of Heritage Professionals in the Valley of the Sun: The ASU Field School at S’eḏav Va’aki" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In 2021 the City of Phoenix’s Archaeology Office invited Arizona State University instructors and students to assist in the development of a management plan for a parcel of land within the S’eḏav Va’aki Museum and Archaeological Park lands via a field training program in...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Anne Austin. Ixchel Faniel. Eric Kansa. Jennifer Jacobs. Ran Boytner.

This is an abstract from the "Capacity Building or Community Making? Training and Transitions in Digital Archaeology" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. A student’s first experience with archaeological recording is frequently in a field school setting. Yet, field school data recording practices can quickly evolve as archaeological projects integrate new technology, change excavation strategies, and investigate new research questions. How do these...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kelly Jenks. Lauren Jelinek.

This is an abstract from the "Building Bridges: Papers in Honor of Teresita Majewski" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Preparing students to work in heritage management is a difficult and increasingly urgent task. Some of the biggest challenges faced by educators include large student-to-teacher ratios, the logistical demands of transporting students to and from project areas, the expense of purchasing and maintaining appropriate equipment and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only April Martinez. John Walden. Delmer Tzib. Carlos Quiroz. Frank Tzib.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Belize is rich in cultural diversity and history but has long faced a disconnect between its citizens’ knowledge and the profound legacy of its precolonial past. Belize's ancient Maya remains attracts archaeologists from around the world. Despite this extraordinary heritage, some Belizeans are disconnected from this past, leading to a diminished sense of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Cerisa Reynolds.

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. The archaeology of food is rarely revelatory of an individual’s diet or of individual meals. Instead, it is usually indicative of a community’s procurement and processing patterns, consumption patterns, cooking methods, and disposal practices. But how can we teach students to understand this distinction and to...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Erika Malo. Jeanne Moe.

This is an abstract from the "Archaeology Education: Building a Research Base" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Project Archaeology, a national archaeology education program, relies on a diverse network of educators, museum professionals, and archaeologists certified as Master Teachers. Master Teachers provide nationwide professional development on the implementation of Project Archaeology’s curricula. Master Teachers are trained through a weeklong...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ethan Watrall.

This is an abstract from the "Capacity Building or Community Making? Training and Transitions in Digital Archaeology" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. As digital methods have become ubiquitous and critical in archaeology and heritage, the challenge of teaching those methods has become more complex. More importantly, we’re being faced with an equally important challenge - how do we build and foster communities in which scholars are connected through...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Carol Colaninno-Meeks. John Chick.

This is an abstract from the "Archaeology Education: Building a Research Base" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. For many undergraduate anthropology majors, participation in an archaeological field school is the entry point to a professional career in the discipline. Despite the importance of field schools, few scholars have investigated the learning outcomes students gain or lasting impacts, either negative or positive, from participation in...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Matthew Moriarty. Ellen Moriarty.

This is an abstract from the "Capturing and Sharing Vermont’s Past: 3D Imaging as a Tool for Undergraduate Research and Community Engagement" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Since 2019, the Vermont State University Digital Archaeology Project, in partnership with the Castleton Innovation Lab, has focused on documenting and sharing Vermont’s past through the use of diverse 3D technologies. Our activities have included documenting both archaeological...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Albert Gonzalez.

This is an abstract from the "Chicanx Archaeology" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This paper describes the pedagogical and scientific results of the construction and testing of several miniature scale Mexican-style adobe ovens (hornos) by faculty and students in Anthropology at California State University, East Bay (CSUEB). Findings are divided into three sections: Adobe as Teaching Technology, Adobe as Construction Technology, and Adobe and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Samantha Kirkley. Jeanne Moe.

This is an abstract from the "Archaeology Education: Building a Research Base" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Project Archaeology is a heritage education organization dedicated to teaching scientific and historical inquiry, cultural understanding, and the importance of protecting our nation’s rich cultural resources. It is a diverse network of educators that make archaeology education accessible to students and teachers nationwide through...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Robert Hard. Eva C. Wikberg. Michael L. Cepek. June A. D. Burke.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. A new course taught in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) during Fall 2022 provided early career planning information to lower division undergraduates. Titled “Anthropology Matters”, the course had the goal of enhancing the success of undergraduate majors preparing for anthropology related careers. Representing...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Hans Harmsen. Christian Koch Madsen. Elie Pinta. Michael Nielsen.

This is an abstract from the "Accelerating Environmental Change Threats to Cultural Heritage: Serious Challenges, Promising Responses" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Eastern Arctic is currently observed to be undergoing significant environmental change as a direct consequence of global warming. For archaeologists working in Greenland, this means the rapid and complete loss of cultural remains due to changing soil conditions. As annual...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kirsten Vacca.

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. There has existed a lack of communication and collaboration between CRM and academic archaeology in the United States since cultural resource management moved out of university systems and into the private sector. This lack of collaboration proves problematic when future CRM and industry archaeologists are trained by academics through...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Christina Sampson.

This is an abstract from the "Pedagogy in the Undergraduate Archaeology Classroom" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Open education (also known as open pedagogy) begins with the values of sharing and accessibility that have motivated the increased use of Open Educational Resources (OER) throughout higher education. Open education is not only about the adoption of OER materials; it also involves a shift in teaching orientation toward an emphasis on...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ece Erlat.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Since the early 1900s, the archaeological site of Sardis has attracted Classical archaeologists. However, archaeologists’ interaction with the local population has always been limited to labor and domestic service exchange. Such a relationship reflects colonial origins of archaeology in the Middle East and doesn’t address the knowledge-based needs of the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Christina Hodge.

This is an abstract from the "Ideas, Ethical Ideals, and Museum Practice in North American Archaeological Collections" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. There has been a recognized teaching crisis in archaeology for at least 25 years—almost as long as there has been a “curation crisis.” In this reflection, I focus on collections-based university teaching in American archaeology. As in the popular archaeological imaginary, archaeological instruction...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Mary Prasciunas. Cristin Lucas. Lea Mason-Kohlmeyer. Helen O'Brien. David Stephen.

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. Undergraduate archaeology students traditionally have few opportunities to gain meaningful archaeological field and/or research experience while pursuing academic goals such as degrees or certificates. This lack of opportunity can negatively impact students’ success in the next...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Elisabeth Stone.

This is an abstract from the "Ann F. Ramenofsky: Papers in Honor of a Non-Normative Career" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Museums are a primary platform by which the public engages the past. Museum interpretation is tied to concrete, well-defined storylines, and tends to avoid the complexity of competing narratives, reinforcing the idea that there can be a single understanding of the past. Where there were vibrant communities rich with human...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Elaine Franklin.

This is an abstract from the "Research, Education, and American Indian Partnerships at the Crow Canyon Archaeological Center" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Since its founding in 1983, public engagement has been a fundamental aspect of the Crow Canyon Archaeological Center’s mission. This presentation provides a synthesis of the center’s education work and contextualizes it within the constructs of cognitive theory and social semiotics. Included...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Emily Sharp.

One goal of archaeological pedagogy is to make students question assumptions about "progress" and the relationship between modern human beings and their historical ancestors. One persistent idea is that violence has declined over time, which coupled with stereotypical illustrations of the past as particularly savage, influence how students conceptualize violence today. Developing teaching strategies that ask students to confront popular assumptions about violence can be difficult in introductory...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Samantha Kirkley.

Project Archaeology is an educational organization dedicated to teaching scientific and historical inquiry, cultural understanding, and the importance of protecting our nation’s rich cultural resources. It is a network that makes archaeology education accessible to students and teachers nationwide through high-quality educational materials and professional development. Built on the Understanding by Design curriculum model, Project Archaeology: Investigating Shelter is a complete archaeological...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kim Christensen.

Data and spatial visualization programs afford archaeologists various ways of showcasing their research. Programs, such as the Knight Foundation’s free StoryMap JS, and Esri StoryMaps, are of particular use when sharing our research results with the public and, I argue, are useful for conducting collaborative research with communities. In this paper, I detail the experience of using online StoryMap programs in the creation of local history maps created by undergraduate students in...