Archaeology
Resources
Archaeological Fieldwork Training: Provision and Assessment in Higher Education
Paul Everill and Rachel Nicholls
This report represents the most complete survey of fieldwork teaching undertaken in the UK.
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The Survey of Archaeological Specialists 2010-11
Kenneth Aitchison
This is a major update of the Survey of Archaeological Specialists undertaken in 2000. This survey was commissioned jointly by the higher Education Academy's Subject Centre for History, Classics and Archaeology and English Heritage, and the research was undertaken by Landward Research Ltd.
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Archaeology Graduates of the Millennium - A Survey of the Career Histories of Graduates
Victoria Jackson and Anthony Sinclair
This report details the result of a nationwide survey of archaeology graduates since the year 2000. It looks into changing aspirations prior to and after completion of their degree, their career histories and their perceptions on how their degree prepared them for their future.
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Investigating the Role of Fieldwork in Teaching and Learning Archaeology
Karina Croucher, Hannah Cobb and Ange Brennan
During the summer months of 2004 and 2005 the archaeology team of the History, Classics and Archaeology Subject Centre (Higher Education Academy) carried out the most comprehensive survey of the opinions and experiences of archaeological fieldwork amongst archaeology students and staff in the UK. Our aim was to investigate perceptions and expectations of fieldwork in archaeology at undergraduate degree level in Britain.
Aerial Archaeology Research Group (AARG) education and teaching resources
This project aims to provide open and free access to teaching and education resources aimed at the following sectors:
• Formal primary, secondary and tertiary education
• Continuing Professional Development (CPD) and other career/professional development and training programmes
• The general public
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Archaeology Image Bank now launched!
An Image Bank for Archaeology has been produced collaboratively between the Higher Education Academy and the Archaeology Data Service (ADS). This is now up and running following its launch at our 'Teaching and Learning in Archaeology' Conference on the 21st June.
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Launch of 'Archaeology Alive'
'Reading Archaeology' is a dynamic tutorial for students at undergraduate level. It aims to demonstrate how academic texts can be read more efficiently and more effectively.
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Drawing and Recording in Archaeology: Reusable Learning Object development
The Subject Centre, in collaboration with the Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning in Reusable Learning Objects (RLO-CETL), is developing a ‘proof of concept’ simulation to assist archaeology students develop their drawing and recording skills. Drawing and recording, although fundamental to archaeological study, are often difficult skills for students to acquire. A lack of site access and the insufficient stratigraphical detail which photographs can provide contribute to and compound these difficulties.
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