Ivonne Dutra Leivas
Doctoral StudentIvonne Dutra Leivas is doctoral student at Grasca – graduate school in contract archaeology.
Research
In my licentiate thesis I investigate how educational programs for schools are implemented within the framework of contract archaeology. I study the underlying incentives that motivate public outreach within contract archaeology, who carries out the outreach and what impact educational programs have on schools. I aim to explore how public outreach within contract archaeology can be organized to meet schools´ demand for knowledge and activities. With an interdisciplinary approach, taken from archaeology and educational sciences, the goal is to instigate a dialogue between the scientific community and contract archaeology, as well as between contract archaeology and schools.
As a primary goal, midway into in my doctoral degree, I have for my licentiate thesis chosen to study the practices of public outreach at urban excavation sites in Sweden, specifically studying outreach practices towards schools.
I also discuss how contract archaeology in the future can make possible broader collaborations with schools. This serves as an introduction to how archaeo-didactics can evolve bringing together contract archaeology's goals and potential in an educational situation, with the needs and goals of school education.
In my doctoral thesis, I will examine what kind of prerequisites there are within the discipline of archaeology for enhancement of an archaeo-didactic field. Furthermore, I will explore what an archaeo-didactic field can encompass and in what way an archaeo-didactic can serve as a tool to improve the collaboration between contract archaeology and the schools.
Publications
Article in journal (Refereed)
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Högberg, A., Alfsdotter, C., Dutra Leivas, I., Eboskog, M., Engström, E., et al. (2021). Uppdragsarkeologins möjligheter : Nya sätt att tänka om en samtidsverksamhet i en framtidsbransch. In Situ Archaeologica. 15. 5-30.
Status: Published
Doctoral thesis, monograph (Other academic)
- Dutra Leivas, I. (2020). Stadsarkeologi, Förmedling och Skolan : Bortom historieämnets horisont. Licentiate Thesis. Växjö, Linnaeus University Press. 174.