Archaeology to Transform and Disrupt: Teaching, Learning, and the Pedagogies of the Future
Part of: Society for American Archaeology 89th Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA (2024)
This collection contains the abstracts of the papers presented in the session entitled "Archaeology to Transform and Disrupt: Teaching, Learning, and the Pedagogies of the Future" at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.
In 2007 Burke and Smith published "Archaeology to Delight and Instruct: Active Learning in the University Classroom," a groundbreaking book on teaching and learning archaeology through creative, inclusive, and novel teaching activities for students of archaeology in higher education. In this session, we celebrate the legacies of this book and invite papers that think about teaching and learning in archaeology and heritage today, encouraging participants to reflect on how teaching and learning can and does challenge the status quo. We are particularly interested in new innovations in teaching and learning, particularly where they challenge inequalities, support climate resilience, and break down boundaries. We invite papers from all career stages, including the experiences of students. This will be a nonjudgmental and safe space to discuss challenges, successes, and the future of teaching and learning in archaeology and heritage in universities and beyond. Papers are invited from across the globe, and we welcome discussions of teaching in any setting, from classrooms to more practical spaces such as the field and labs.
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Breaking Down Boundaries through Collaborative Learning Communities: Integrating Outdoor Teaching into a Year One Introductory Archaeology Course (2024)
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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. Studying a non-school subject such as archaeology at university can be challenging. This knowledge gap can compound barriers for new students, including living away from home, arranging a new job, and making friends. Creating a collaborative learning community is therefore important for...
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The Heritage Glossary Project (2024)
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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. Heritage is a multidisciplinary field. Students of heritage come to the subject from a broad array of backgrounds, nationalities, and languages. The word heritage has many meanings depending on context and understanding the multiple meanings of the word itself is the first “translation” I task...
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Raising Appalachia: Promoting and Fostering Academic Spaces for Undergraduate Students to Engage with Archaeology at West Virginia University (2024)
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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. Students studying anthropology and art history at West Virginia University (WVU) have not always had access to experiential learning and laboratory training experiences. However, recent initiatives by early career faculty have boosted student engagement and prompted career success. In this...
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Teaching Archaeology to Change the Status Quo (2024)
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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. When we were students there were few Aboriginal archaeologists — and no Aboriginal faculty employed to teach archaeology at a university. When we became university teachers we worked to change this situation. This presentation outlines our teaching strategies and the efforts undertaken by our...
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Teaching Curation: Using Collections to Foster Disciplinary Reflection and Research Opportunities among Undergraduates (2024)
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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...
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The Transformative Power of Learning Assemblages, Relational Pedagogies, and Universal Design for Learning in Archaeology (2024)
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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...