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An Inductive Approach in the Teaching of Archaeology

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 January 2017

C. W. Weiant*
Affiliation:
Hunter College, New York

Extract

Archaeologists, by and large, have been too much engrossed with the problems of their own specialty to give much thought to pedagogy. So long as archaeological teaching remained largely in the graduate schools, where the training of would-be specialists is supplemented by museum projects and apprenticeships in the field, the situation did not greatly matter. The spreading popularity of anthropology has led to the establishment of undergraduate programs in anthropology, with the frequent inclusion of one or more survey courses in archaeology. In the light of this development it seems advisable to take stock of current methods of teaching the subject and give thought to the possibility of making our methods more effective.

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Copyright
Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1952

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