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Enquiry Based Learning in Museums: A Mechanism for gallery evaluation
This project asks the question “What is the relevance of Classics to the 21st Century?” with Manchester students to encourage debate and regeneration of Classics though enquiry-based learning. Using a mixture of field work and project planning, the student cohort will develop key transferable skills. Students will devise approaches to formal assessment and evaluation of galleries, by directing their own investigations at key cultural sites in the UK. By encouraging students to take an interest in classics we are enabling them to enquire, question and debate, to be aware of the huge influence of the ancient world on their own lives and the ways in which it has been interpreted over the years.
Project Team: Bryan Sitch, Ella Louise Sutherland, Janet Tatlock, Kathryn McTavish Faculty: Humanities
Funding year: 2006
Keywords: manchester, museums, gallery, classics, culture, widening participation, schools, teamwork, evaluation, debate
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Reading Ancient Texts Today: Papyri, Narrative and the Articulation of Past and Present
This project aims to improve student engagement with the content of Classics and Ancient History programmes by making the JRULM collection of papyri and early manuscripts more accessible to undergradtuate students and using enquiry-based educational theories. A range of resources (including online digitised texts) will be developed to provide jumping off points for student exploration of texts in translation and the original Greek. A framework will be developed for students to explore their own learning experiences through group discussion of Greek myth. This will invole EBL study groups and a student-directed WebCT project.
Project Team: Dr Emma Griffiths Faculty: Humanities
Funding year: 2007a
Keywords: classics, history, webct, papyri, manuscripts, library
