Zoekresultaten

A deeper dig into Global Learning

International education is a relatively new field and until recently, there was no formal education to prepare practitioners. This means that people working in international education are a colourful and diverse group, coming from a wide range of disciplines, which definitely adds to the attraction of the field. I call international education a field rather than a discipline since it is composed of a variety of established disciplines, such as languages, educational sciences, psychology, business, anthropology, history and even, in my case, classical archaeology. For this lecture, I have chosen to return to my original discipline and discuss global learning as the stages of an archaeological excavation. Cutting though the subsequent layers represents a history of international education but also my own professional history. By digging deeper down, layer after layer, I hope to uncover the essence of global learning in order to make its benefits available for all our students. This lecture consists of four sections. In the first section, I want to go back to the time when archaeology was a new discipline and see what we can learn from the research conducted at that time. In the second section I will reveal the layers of internationalisation and global learning until we come to the layer that we are currently exploring. In the third section, I will look at some of the factors and trends that will have an impact on global learning in the years to come. This shows that circumstances are quite different from when the excavation started and that global education is therefore dynamic. Finally, I will discuss what research the Research Group Global Learning will conduct, how and with whom, in the coming years.

Staging e-waste

This text draws on a recent work experience at the WEEE recycling centre in Apeldoorn, the Netherlands, during which I wrote a series of auto-ethnographic texts. Through a performative of framing recycling work, I attempt to gain insight into the way we relate to the electronic waste we produce. I apply media-archaeological concepts to some of the work experiences I wrote about and address my findings in ecological terms.

Scratching through the surface

Crustumerium was an Iron Age settlement north of Rome, inhabited between 850 and 500 BC. On the basis of archaeological field surveys in the 1970’s a scenario for the development of the city and its countryside was proposed, which matches traditional models of city-state formation. However, little attention was paid to the fact that the local archaeology has been substantially disturbed by nearly a century of mechanized agricultural exploitation. A new analysis of existing and new data, in which the effects of erosion are also considered, now shows that alternative interpretations, which do not assume the maximum urbanisation of the ancient settlement area, are feasible. For the rural area directly surrounding Crustumerium, new analyses of data similarly open up new avenues of interpretation. Here, recent research indicates that a major increase of rural activity (ruralisation) can be placed in the Roman period, long after the abandonment of Crustumerium. The prevailing idea based on legacy data, however, is that intensive ruralisation already took place during the reign of Crustumerium, and that the countryside fell in disuse afterwards.This new study shows that the search for pre-Roman remains in a Roman landscape is very problematic and that new angles of interpretation are needed to review the development of the city and country of Crustumerium. By doing so, the study also questions existing ideas of the urbanisation and ruralisation of ancient city-states in a broader sense.

Slimme archeologie: reverse archaeology

Palestine missing assets: archaeology tourism

Scanlines

The art interactive installation 'Scanlines' was realised at the conference 'Doing Experimental Media Archaeology: Practice & Theory Conference'.