Excluded Past, Owa 17 Archaeology in Education

The Excluded Past represents a major new departure in exploring the relationship between archaeologists and educationalists, and seeks to explain why aspects of the past are excluded. The book argues that archaeology will only come of age when archaeologists accept a role within education alongside interpreters and mediators of the past, and when educators accept and understand the complexity and the potential of the archaeological discipline. The concept of the excluded past rests on two basic observations: that the prehistoric past is almost universally excluded from school curricula, and that the version of the past presented to many indigenous and minority groups is not their own but rather that of dominant social groups. The book contains specially commissioned contributions from a variety of different perspectives and countries, and it provides a forum for hitherto underrepresented viewpoints from the Third and Fourth Worlds.This ground-breaking book will interest everyone who is concerned with the educational treatment of the past: archaeologists, historians, educationalists, interpreters and custodians of cultural heritage, and all those who seek to understand and influence national and international cultural policies.

 

Introduction: the concept of the excluded past 1. The study of our universal cultural heritage through the Unesco Associated Schools Project 2. Archaeology in Indian universities 3. Archaeology in Nigerian education 4. Archaeology and education in Kenya 5. Education and the political manipulation of history in Venezuela 6. The right to a past: Namibian history and the struggle for national liberation 7. Still civilizing? Aborigines in Australian education 8. The affirmation of indigenous values in a colonial education system 9. The missing past in South African history 10. The teaching of the past of the Native peoples of North America in US schools 11. Whispers from the forest: the excluded past of the Ache Indians of Paraguay 12. the earth is our history book: archaeology in Nozambique 13. Culture houses in Papua New Guinea 14. The reconstruction of African history through historical, ethnographic and oral sources 15. The excluded present: archaeology and education in Argentina 16 Archaeology in the Alberta curriclum: an overview 17. 'In fourteen hundred and ninety-two, Colombus sailed...': the primacy of the national myth in UA school 18. Education and archaeology in Japan 19. The Black historical past in British education 20. Popularizing archaeology among schoolchildren in the USSR 21. Children and the past in Poland: archaeology and prehistoryin primary schools and museums 22. Rediscovering Rome's hidden past 23. New Archaeology, New History - when will they meet? Archaology in English secondary schools 24. 'Well, in the Neolithic...': teaching about the past in English primary schools 25. Archaeology in the Toronto school system: the Archaeological Resource Centre