出版社：Higher Education Academy Subject Centre for History, Classics and Archaeology
摘要：Transition: In summer 2006 the Ardnamurchan Transitions Project began its first season of excavation at the Neolithic chambered tomb of Cladh Aindreis on the Ardnamurchan Peninsula, Western Scotland. This work, alongside some field walking at a series of other key sites on the peninsula, aimed to explore the nature of the Mesolithic/Neolithic transition in the area. However the excavation also aimed to do something much less conventional… Transformation: By bringing together a crew of both academic and professional field archaeologists this excavation sought to transform student attitudes towards the integration of theory and practice. Explicit theoretical questions were considered as integral to the excavation process. Furthermore, through stressing the importance of self reflexivity, the project also aimed to allow students to transform themselves. Taking advantage of high staff/student ratios, this excavation invited students to develop key interests, to take greater responsibility in excavation and interpretation, and to reflect explicitly upon transferable skills they were gaining whilst directly considering issues of employability. This paper discusses the techniques used to achieve this and as well as discussing their relative success in the field, it also addresses the directions we hope to take such methods in future seasons.
关键词：Neolithic; Scotland; vocational training; transferable skills; peer assisted learning; reflexivity; Ardnamurchan; theory and practice; undergraduate
