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||English Heritage consultation on prehistoric, urban and historic industrial research strategies
from Surrey, UK
| Posted 20-08-2010 at 16:33  |
English Heritage is developing a series of thematic research strategies which will link with the proposed National Heritage Protection Plan. They are ‘primarily intended to help English Heritage identify research which will further the organisation’s goals and to provide criteria for the allocation of research resources in a highly competitive arena’. In a future where resources for research will be increasingly scarce, these strategies will be fundamental to priorities for research funding.
The consultation drafts are published for comment over the next month:
· Prehistoric Archaeology Strategy
· Urban Historic Environment Strategy
· Historic Industrial Environment Strategy
Research Strategy for Prehistory
Research themes and priorities for prehistory
Theme PR1 Landscape perspectives
Critical Priority 1 Integrated approaches to prehistoric landscapes
Theme PR2 Innovative studies of sites and monuments
Critical Priority 2 Setting prehistoric sites in context
Critical Priority 3 Understanding ‘sites without structures’
Theme PR3 Understanding prehistoric society
Theme PR4 Critical approaches to key transitions
Theme PR5 Realising the full potential of scientific techniques
Theme PR6 Studying human interactions with the environment
Theme PR7 Responding to changing environments
Critical Priority 4 Managing the impact of climate change
Theme PR8 Integrating research and building partnerships
Critical Priority 5 Improving access to unpublished data
Theme PR9 Raising profiles
Critical Priority 6 Teaching prehistory
"Many areas could be targeted for raising profiles but the absence of prehistory teaching in schools has a lot to do with the public being less well informed about these periods than later ones, and engaging children will automatically extend to other family members. The All- Party Parliamentary Archaeology Group report acknowledges that ‘... prehistory does not feature in the national curriculum in England ... the UK is the only European state to neglect prehistory in this way’ and goes on to recommend that ‘Prehistory should be part of all
national curricula’ 37 .
While changing the curriculum should remain a long-term goal, this CP
is focussed on developing educational resources for classrooms, sites and landscapes that are appropriate for the current national curriculum, including textbooks, websites and site-based material, such as exemplary presentations of research at English Heritage’s own prehistoric properties which can demonstrate an integrated and contextual approach.
Two key aims must be to translate more of current academic knowledge and approaches into accessible popular and educational material, and to link archaeological evidence to other important topics, such as the prehistoric perspective on climate change (see Theme PR7) and how the historic environment contributes to making the places people live in. We also need to find ways of incorporating the Palaeolithic and Mesolithic, which are particularly
neglected, into more general historical narratives."
[ This message was edited by: Andy B on 2010-08-20 16:36 ]
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