Prioritizing the Expressed Community Needs in Educational Projects in Ancash, Peru

Summary

This paper evaluates the efforts to create and implement a diversity of cultural heritage educational programs over a four-year period in the Ancash Region. The initial impetus for the development was in large part viewed as a means for obtaining community support for archaeological research projects and an increased commitment of local stewardship for cultural heritage resources. Over the four-year period, we made a decisive shift from an approach of creating products for the community to one where we worked directly with the community. We determined that a co-creative approach that prioritized the expressed needs of the community resulted in programs with an increased likelihood for being sustained increasingly by the local community. Finally, we consider on a Critical Assessment Framework as developed by Worts to evaluate the success of these programs.  

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Prioritizing the Expressed Community Needs in Educational Projects in Ancash, Peru. Robert Connolly, Elizabeth Cruzado, Natalie Kramm, Dominique Giosa. Presented at The 82nd Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Washington, DC. 2018 ( tDAR id: 444313)

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min long: -82.441; min lat: -56.17 ; max long: -64.863; max lat: 16.636 ;

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Abstract Id(s): 22020