Some observations on contemporary teaching of archaeology in universities

• Authors: Martin Gojda
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

This paper reflects on the study of archaeology in central Europe, where recently this discipline, in countries such as the Czech Republic, has spread extensively within the university environment. This process shows the need to consider not only why this is happening, but also how this process should be directed and how far the archaeology curricula in individual university departments should diversify from their traditional focus. It has been suggested that contemporary archaeology has a unique opportunity to attract young people interested both in humanities and, ever more frequently, also in natural science due to the strong links between these disciplines.

Keywords

EN

archaeology; university studies; teaching strategy; interpretive openness; archaeological sources

• Publisher: Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology, Polish Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Sprawozdania Archeologiczne
• Year: 2012
• Volume: 64
• Pages: 9-16

Contributors

author

Martin Gojda

• The Department of Archaeology, University of West Bohemia, Sedláčkova 15, 30614 Pilsen, Czech Republic