Hands-On in the Classroom: Teaching about the Past to Undergraduate Art Students

Summary

This is an abstract from the "Pedagogy in the Undergraduate Archaeology Classroom" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

Pedagogical studies in higher education repeatedly underscore the importance and effectiveness of hands-on, deep learning as a means for student engagement and connection with subject matter. In this paper we outline several engaged activities and techniques employed in anthropology and archaeology classes at a college of art and design. These classroom activities are explored here by instructors, including a former undergraduate art student who participated in these activities in the classroom, and now employs these methods as an anthropology graduate student instructor. We demonstrate that through these creative approaches to the study of the past, students come away from these classes with a deeper understanding and appreciation of anthropological and archaeological inquiry, Indigenous cultural achievements, and can make connections with course matter across other disciplines and fields.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Pedagogy in the Undergraduate Archaeology Classroom   •
• Society for American Archaeology 88th Annual Meeting, Portland, OR (2023)

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Abstract Id(s): 37126.0