The Higher Education Academy, History, Classics and Archaeology

Subject Centre for History,
Classics and Archaeology

Live Archaeology: theory, methods, practice - and the people behind them

Universities of Liverpool, Cambridge, Manchester, Sheffield

Description

This project will investigate theoretical approaches and interpretations of key archaeological themes and sites. Concepts of landscape, use of space, and phenomenology will be explored from different theoretical perspectives, in relation to some of the main sites (eg. the Orkney Isles, Stonehenge region). Video interviews will be conducted with practitioners whose work has been significant in the discipline, thus making interpretation and theory clearer, more accessible, and more ‘human'. These interviews, key site images (still and moving), and surrounding pedagogical framework will then be inserted into a Generative Learning Object template developed during work between the Subject Centre and the Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning in Reusable Learning Objects.  Through interviewing some of the key theoretical figures and situating their research within both pedagogical framework and links to site data and images, interpretation and theory will be made clearer and more accessible to students, and they will be enabled to access alternative perspectives within a manageable e-format. The intention, ultimately, is to bring archaeological theory to life.

 

This exemplar is not yet completed. 

 

The Subject Centre for History, Classics and Archaeology, School of Archaeology, Classics and Egyptology, Hartley Building, Brownlow Street, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, L69 3GS, Telephone +44 (0) 151 795 0343, Fax +44 (0) 151 794 5057, Email:  hca.hea@liverpool.ac.uk