Outreach and Education: Bringing it Home to the Public (General Sessions)

Part of: Society for Historical Archaeology 2021

This collection contains the abstracts of the papers presented in the session entitled "Outreach and Education: Bringing it Home to the Public (General Sessions)," at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.

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  • Education Where You Least Expect It: Expanding Access to Submerged Cultural Resources in the Time of a Global Pandemic (2021)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Caitlin Zant.

    This is an abstract from the session entitled "Outreach and Education: Bringing it Home to the Public (General Sessions)" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Over the past thirty years, the Maritime Preservation Program at the Wisconsin Historical Society has focused on implementing a diverse outreach program that fosters a preservation ethic and responsible site visitation as an important aspect of submerged resource preservation. While the initial focus...

  • Games and Gamification as Transformative Pedagogy in the Archaeology and Art History Classroom (2021)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Michael Zimmerman. Andres Montenegro-Rosero.

    This is an abstract from the session entitled "Outreach and Education: Bringing it Home to the Public (General Sessions)" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Gamification, a “complex and controversial concept” (Tulloch 2014: 317), is commonly considered an effective tool for student engagement in the archaeology classroom, by providing elements of gameplay: rules, rewards, punishments, competition, and narrative. However, games and gamification have a role...

  • Poetry And Archaeology: Public Art For An Expanded Audience (2021)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Elizabeth Comer.

    This is an abstract from the session entitled "Outreach and Education: Bringing it Home to the Public (General Sessions)" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Archaeological finds are poetic expression. Discovery, analysis, and interpretation engage our emotions in a rational and structured way, just as poetry can. However, it is seldom that we reach out to poets and ask that they process archaeological experiences through a lens of poetic expression as...

  • Public Archaeology, Pedagogy, and Pragmatism: The Flint Archaeology and Spatial History (FLASH) Project (2021)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Dan Trepal.

    This is an abstract from the session entitled "Outreach and Education: Bringing it Home to the Public (General Sessions)" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The Flint Archaeology and Spatial History (FLASH) Project is an interdisciplinary collaboration between archaeologists, historians, and geographic information scientists. The project employs a series of publicly web-accessible GIS-based tools to augment public engagement, teaching, and research...