Shoreditch Park Community Excavation:

Simpson, Faye

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“…artefacts, chronologies etc. ), but rather for how it presented the testimony of elderly survivors of the bombing and the physical evidence in engagement with younger generations from nearby communities (Moshenska 2009;Simpson 2011). Moshenska (2010, 7) has argued elsewhere that the material remnants of wartime bombing, whether rubble or scraps of shrapnel (or even unexploded bombs) offer an alternative potential means for remembering the Blitz in a way that focuses on local places and events rather than formal monuments and ceremonies.…”

Section: Rubble: Forgetting and Remembering The Blitzmentioning

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Gardner

2023

JCA

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Vast quantities of waste rubble produced through demolition, natural disasters and conflict form part of the globe-spanning, anthropogenic deposit that has been called the “archaeosphere”. Whilst such material is often considered “waste” and of little value in the immediate aftermath of deconstruction or destruction, rubble rarely remains “wasted” for long and becomes reused in new cycles of construction. While architectural salvage and spolia are relatively well studied, the reuse of demolition rubble in the creation of new terrain (reclamation) is rarely discussed. Responding to this, I discuss how World War II bomb rubble was used to reclaim ground from Hackney Marsh and Leyton Marsh in East London. This waste material not only provided valuable new terrain for leisure facilities, but also led to a broad array of unexpected and emergent uses and valuations, including as site of footballing heritage and place of remembrance and contestation.

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Gardner

2023

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“…For example, the Museum of London (MoL) have undertaken a range of projects in conjunction with HMP Wandsworth and the Josephine Butler Unit through which adults and young offenders produce creative artwork or poetry based around the collections and their experiences of London (MoL, n.d.). Similarly, the Shoreditch Community Excavation, also led by the MoL and partners, included young offenders within some of its wider activities with a view to help reduce reoffending rates in Hackney (Simpson, 2011).…”

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Romans and Reducing Recidivism: Archaeology, Social Benefit, and Working with Offenders in Wales (Part 1)

Pudney

2017

Public Archaeology

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Claims that public and community archaeology can help 'change lives' have recently come under criticism. Challenging these critiques, this article explores how archaeology can be socially beneficial in the rehabilitation of offenders. Using a case study from South Wales, the article demonstrates how a prison-based outreach project can offer an innovative trajectory for public archaeology, highlighting the links between archaeology and political agendas. The article challenges the concept of 'archaeologist-as-social-worker' and considers the successes and limitations of such an approach, including the challenges of measuring impact. Ultimately, it demonstrates that archaeology-based activities can provide positive life experiences for offenders but only through a successful partnership between heritage and offender management specialists, as part of a wider programme of support and intervention.

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Effective or not? Success or failure? Assessing heritage and archaeological education programmes – the case of Çatalhöyük

Apaydin

2016

International Journal of Heritage Studies

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Recent decades have witnessed an increasing involvement of archaeology projects in planning and carrying out heritage education programmes to increase heritage awareness among the public. This paper aims to explore ways in which models of education programmes in public archaeology could be more effective in ensuring the protection of heritage sites by examining the one of the worlds longest-running education programme, run by the Çatalhöyük Research Project in Turkey. It is important to pay attention to multi-vocal elements such as social, political and educational backgrounds of the communities to develop more effective education programmes, and most importantly it is crucial to assess the effectiveness and success of those programmes. However, most of archaeological education programmes have failed to carry out this important component. In order to be effective and successful, the success of the education programmes and the ways in which they are implemented and their results must be known and critically examined. Specifically, this paper will discuss the necessity of measuring the effectiveness of education programmes, suggest the most suitable methodology for assessment through examining the Çatalhöyük education programmes. Introduction: why do heritage and education matter? Over the last few decades, community engagement within the heritage sector has increased substantially and has gone through transformation in terms of research and methodologies. Additionally, recent studies have focused on how formal education can reach large numbers of people (Planel 1994; Copeland 2004; Corbishley 2004; Henson 2004a, 2004b; Apaydin 2015, forthcoming-a). Researchers argue that heritage related subjects have been neglected in comparison with other subjects. The oversimplification and undermining of archaeology and heritage subjects in formal education is a more or less global phenomenon. Although the quality of, and time spent on, the teaching of archaeology and heritage has increased in some countries, such as the United Kingdom and some other European countries, students still need to have a 'hands on' relationship with archaeology and heritage. This means not only informing people about local heritage but also giving them opportunities to see, touch and feel archaeology and heritage objects, which can increase the interest of people towards their local heritage. An example of this is the Shoreditch Park Community Project, which allows community members access to all stages of the project from 'research to excavation and process[ing] of the finds' (see Simpson 2011, 115).

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Shoreditch Park Community Excavation:

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