The Politics of storytelling: Electronic media in archaeological interpretation and education

Title
The Politics of storytelling: Electronic media in archaeological interpretation and education
Publication Date
2004
Author(s)
Clarke, Catherine Therese
Type of document
Journal Article
Language
en
Entity Type
Publication
Publisher
Routledge
Place of publication
United Kingdom
DOI
10.1080/0043824042000261022
UNE publication id
une:1301
Abstract
This paper raises and draws together a number of emerging issues in the maintenance and growth of archaeology through education. While the use of electronic media is increasingly pervasive in archaeological interpretation and in both formal and informal educational representations of archaeology, there is limited engagement in the discipline with the theoretical and pedagogical rationales for the adoption of these media and the interpretative narratives they offer. Indeed, many questions remain both unarticulated and unresolved in these discussions. 'How should these interpretations be best used for teaching and learning in archaeology?' and 'Why?' are research questions that may help to advance interest in teaching in the discipline beyond its current, fairly exploratory, level. In this process, the central role of pedagogy as an agency of concepts of disciplinary knowledge, rather than a neutral and naturalized addendum to the real business of the discipline needs to be recognized. For the pedagogical is political.
Link
Citation
World Archaeology, 36(2), p. 275-286
ISSN
1470-1375
0043-8243
Start page
275
End page
286

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