Teaching and Learning the Archaeology of the Contemporary Era

Gabriel Moshenska is an Associate Professor in Public Archaeology at the UCL Institute of Archaeology, University College London, UK.

Teaching and Learning the Archaeology of the Contemporary Era is a timely and important contribution to the ever-evolving field of contemporary archaeology. The volume does an excellent job of highlighting the diversity and creativity of approaches used by educators and practitioners, showcasing how teaching contemporary archaeology can both strengthen existing archaeological education and offer avenues for reconceptualising the field entirely.

• List of FiguresList of ContributorsIntroduction: Pedagogy in Contemporary Archaeology (Gabriel Moshenska, University College London, UK)I. Course and Curriculum Development1. Contemporary Art and Archaeology: Interdisciplinary Pedagogy and Practice in the Digital University (Antonia Thomas, University of the Highlands and Islands, UK)2. Documenting Wesley College: A Mildly Anarchist Teaching Encounter (William Caraher, University of North Dakota, USA)3. Teaching Contemporary Archaeology: The Durham Experience (David Petts, Durham University, UK)II. Pedagogical Practices4. The Henge with a Postcode: The Benefits of Contemporary Archaeology Fieldtrips (Kenneth Brophy, University of Glasgow, UK)5. Draw your Phone: The Cellphone as an Intimate, Everyday Artefact (Colleen Morgan, University of York, UK)6. Walking and Talking Around the Bombsites of Bloomsbury (Gabriel Moshenska, University College London, UK)III. Working with Communities7. Over, Under, and In Between: Collaborative Learning from Landscapes using Contemporary Archaeology (April M. Beisaw, Vassar College, USA)8. Teaching and Learning Difficult Pasts of the Twentieth Century through Community Archaeology (Tiina Äikäs, Oula Seitsonen, Tuuli Matila, and Vesa-Pekka Herva, University of Oulu, Finland)9. Beyond Zinjanthropus: Historical Archaeology Pedagogy in Tanzania (Nancy Rushohora, University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania)IV. The Personal and the Political10. ‘We Want School!’ Teaching and Learning Contemporary Archaeology with Displaced People in Anarchist-Adjacent Spaces in Athens, Greece (Rachael Kiddey, University of Cambridge, UK)11. Education is Life: Collective Experiences of Practicing the Archaeology of the Contemporary Past in a Conservative Atmosphere (Maryam Dezhamkhooy, Heidelberg University, Germany and Leila Papoli-Yazdi, Malmö University, Sweden)12. Archaeologies of the Contemporary World – A Chancy Business? (Greg Bailey, Independent Researcher, UK)Index