Trials and Tribulations: Navigating Instruction of Archaeology Courses for Rising Scholars in a Post-Pandemic Educational Environment

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This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

On October 6, 2021, California's Governor Newsom signed in law AB 417 - Rising Scholars Network: Justice-Involved Students. The purpose of this bill was to expand higher educational opportunities for and reduce equity gaps among Rising Scholars (students who have formerly experienced incarceration or are currently incarcerated). At Palo Verde College, where 12-15 anthropology courses are offered to Rising Scholars students each semester, the need for ensuring Rising Scholars students are provided with a robust educational experience is crucial. Yet, given the obstacles confronted by Rising Scholars students, anthropology instructors have struggled to provide Rising Scholars with a robust archaeological curriculum. These obstacles include, but are not limited to, the following: slow-moving correspondence with students, students’ limited access to the internet, difficulty in accessing library tools, and students’ limitations related to on-campus resources. In this paper, I will examine the challenges confronted by anthropology instructors who teach Rising Scholars students in an effort to explore the skills needed to successfully apply effective archaeological pedagogy to correspondence-based archaeology courses.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts   •
• Society for American Archaeology 89th Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA (2024)

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Abstract Id(s): 38944.0