Teaching Archaeology to Change the Status Quo

Summary

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 peers who also sought to change the status quo. It details our challenges, successes, and failures. Over time, it has become clear the vision of an Aboriginal archaeology peopled by Aboriginal archaeologists has to be enacted across generations of teachers. While there are now more Aboriginal archaeologists, there are still too few. We finish this presentation with our key learnings: cultural safety, culturally appropriate support, and the importance of community.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Archaeology to Transform and Disrupt: Teaching, Learning, and the Pedagogies of the Future   •
• Society for American Archaeology 89th Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA (2024)

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Abstract Id(s): 40396.0