Interrogating pedagogies: Archaeology in Higher Education.

Interrogating pedagogies: Archaeology in Higher Education. PAUL RAINBIRD rainbirdNounS African a common name for [Burchell's coucal], a bird whose call is believed to be a sign of impending rain & YANNIS HAMILAKIS (ed.). Interrogatingpedagogies: archaeology in higher education (Lampeter Workshop inArchaeology 3; British Archaeological Reports International series 948).i+118 pages, 4 figures, 8 tables. 2001. Oxford: Archaeopress;1-84171-240-X paperback 22 [pounds sterling]. MARK PLUCIENNIK (ed.). The responsibilities of archaeologists:archaeology and ethics (Lampeter Workshop in Archaeology 4; BritishArchaeological Reports International series 981). i+98 pages, 4 figures.2001. Oxford: Archaeopress; 1-84171-267-1 paperback. Who is to set standards in teaching, and how? Messrs RAINBIRD &HAMILAKIS present 21 assessments of present teaching methods in Britishuniversities -- training or the cultivation of intellectual values? --and the bureaucratic bu��reau��crat?n.1. An official of a bureaucracy.2. An official who is rigidly devoted to the details of administrative procedure.bu conditions for them. They range from newapplications of information technology to `Fieldtrip theory' andthe role of the Learning & Teaching Support Network. The toughestpassages are bruised reflections on the Quality Assurance Agency'sinterventions. There is also a contribution on the Society for AmericanArchaeology The Society for American Archaeology (SAA) is the largest organization of professional archaeologists of the Americas in the world. The Society was founded in 1934 and today has over 7000 members. . John Collis John Collis, (born 1944 in Winchester) is a British prehistorian. His first dig was in Longbridge Deverill with the Hawkes. He studied in Praha (with E. Soudsk��), T��bingen (with W. Kimmig) and Cambridge and was awarded his Ph.D. in Cambridge, where he taught from 1963-1970. opens the proceedings with `a personalpolemic'. Missing from the coverage are discussion of adulteducation (and also p. 119). Dr PLUCIENNIK introduces 10 discussionsthat range from the roles of archaeologists as intellectuals --including D. Austin on diverging roles among British universities and DrHamilakis on `critical archaeology' -- to the issues of culturalrepresentation -- including the presentation of archaeology -- andownership of the past.