Interrogating Pedagogies [Paperback]

Collection of papers of which majority were first presented at the Third Lampeter Workshop in Archaeology in September 2000. A wide range of issues relating to archaeology in higher education is dicussed. The aim of the volume was to intervene in the current discussion of the teaching of archaeology in higher education, emphasising the complexity of the matter, and the need to subject all proposed measures to critical analysis and scrutiny and further to send the message that teaching of archaeology in higher education is a matter worth discussing seriously in academic debates and sessions. The contirbutors to the volume are John Collis, Annie Grant, Michael Reynier, Mike Bishop, Kathryn Roberts, Don Henson, Matthew Johnson, Graeme Barker, Cornelius Holtrof, Richard Hingley, Beverly Ballin Smith, Kathryn Fewster, George S. Smith, Paul Halstead, Sophy Thomas-Goodburn, Yannis Hamilakis and Paul Rainbird.Seventeen papers, based on those given at a workshop held in Lampeter in 2000, discuss a wide range of issues and themes of archaeology as taught in higher education, including courses, training, links with the professional sector, assessment methods, qualifications, fieldwork, the role of the teaching institution, supervision, bureaucracy, ...