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The birth of educational archaeology in South Africa

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Amanda B. Esterhuysen
Amanda B. Esterhuysen*
Affiliation:
Department of Archaeology, University of the Witwatersrand, P.O. WITS 2050, South Africa, 107abe@cosmos.wits.ac.za
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Abstract

Archaeology in education has been introduced in South Africa only recently as the politics of the past precluded the application of archaeology in the classroom. This paper presents the background to South African education and educational archaeology and discusses some of the issues and studies undertaken in South Africa. It also offers comment on the factors which determine and shape educational archaeology of the present and those that may affect the discipline of archaeology in the future.

Keywords

South Africaeducationpoliticsracial‘Reconstruction and Reconciliation’schools
Type
Special section: Archaeology in education
Information
Antiquity , Volume 74 , Issue 283 , March 2000 , pp. 159 - 165
Copyright
Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 2000

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