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[righteous harmony]

Oh, you should also let him know that because of time constraints, funding, and licencing, we don't actually do any excavation with them. It's too bad, but then, digging isn't the end-all, be-all of archaeology anyway.

arr, send the li'l tykes down to me! i'm excavating in a quarry near killarney. they can learn new curse words and all about the dangerous side effects of alcohol. i'm old and bitter just make sure they don't end up like me...

 

[sugar_referee]

Cool stuff. What are you doing in college?

Doing music with kids must be so much fun. Taking them out to do archaeology projects sure is...

primary teaching . worst college course ever ( apart from the two hour puppeteering class of a thursday) but unlike a lot of college courses the job you get at the end is by far the more desirable .
and music with the kids is fucking brilliant youve never heard chocolate for the ears if youve never heard 30 six year olds singing ''i can tell we're going to be friends''

im a little bit confused though what exactly do you do ? i have a general idea but ive never heard anything like that done before

 

[jane]

primary teaching . worst college course ever ( apart from the two hour puppeteering class of a thursday) but unlike a lot of college courses the job you get at the end is by far the more desirable .
and music with the kids is fucking brilliant youve never heard chocolate for the ears if youve never heard 30 six year olds singing ''i can tell we're going to be friends''

im a little bit confused though what exactly do you do ? i have a general idea but ive never heard anything like that done before

I'm an archaeologist (doing a PhD, and part-timing as a researcher for a company), but I also work with a university access programme, doing workshops with primary and secondary school kids.

What I really want to get into is community archaeology, but done in a way that allows the communities involved to feel that the past doesn't just belong to the archaeologists. I (and others) feel that if the past really does belong to everyone, then it is our job, not just to tell them about it, but to include them in the process whenever possible, and from the start.

We've had our own perceptions challenged by the kids we've worked with, and in so many ways we didn't expect. Including communties from the start is the only way to take archaeological thinking outside of its elitist past and really make it relevant to people in the present. We should not only invite people to challenge our perspectives, we should also help them get the tools to do so.

We think of it as 'Creative Engagements with the Past', where our top priority is to help people enjoy learning on their own terms, rather than on snooty academic ones. We're really just getting started, and we need to sit down and come up with lots more ideas, and then lots of ways to get them to happen.

There's a guy in Cork who, off his own back, created a teaching pack for primary schools for the Dept of Education, which is pretty great, and I think there's loads of interest out there for doing lots of other stuff.

Thirty six-year olds singing songs could never be anything but awesome. And puppeteering! Awesome.

 

[jane]

arr, send the li'l tykes down to me! i'm excavating in a quarry near killarney. they can learn new curse words and all about the dangerous side effects of alcohol. i'm old and bitter just make sure they don't end up like me...

Well, kids have their middle fingers on the pulse of cuss-word development. In fact, they are real little innovators -- I'll bet they could teach the archaeologists a thing or two.

Except the kids we had the other day didn't cuss at all. They were little gentlemen, but not in a repressed way.

I'd send the kids down to you, but I dunno, those Munster sites -- there's porno in them thar holes!

 

[righteous harmony]

I'd send the kids down to you, but I dunno, those Munster sites -- there's porno in them thar holes!

i'd never mix kids and porn...