‘Cooler than a trip to Alton Towers’: Assessing the Impact of the Higher Education Field Academy, 2005–13
‘Cooler than a trip to Alton Towers’: Assessing the Impact of the Higher Education Field Academy, 2005–13
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“比奥尔顿塔之旅更酷”：评估高等教育实地学院的影响，2005-13
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2014
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C. Lewis
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C. Lewis
摘要高等教育领域学院(HEFA)是剑桥大学的一个扩大参与度的项目，旨在通过参与考古挖掘来提高青少年的教育抱负、热情和成就。建立、运行、记录和撰写一个有助于大学研究的1平方米的挖掘工作被构建成一个多样化的、具有挑战性的评估工作计划，在这个计划中，学习者发展和完善一系列对教育和工作场所的成功至关重要的技能-认知、技术、社交和个人技能。2005至2013年间，共有3496名年轻人参加了HEFA，其成功的核心是考古学的独特特征：这是一个跨学科的学科，新手可以自己发现真正的新发现和重要发现。在财政紧缩、遗产资金严重削减的情况下，HEFA展示了考古学通过扩大接受高等教育的机会和帮助年轻人获得他们未来对社会做出最大贡献所需的资格来建立社会资本的能力。本文件评估了2005-13年高等教育方案的起源、目标、结构和影响，特别是2005-11年的“高等教育年”。
Abstract The Higher Education Field Academy (HEFA) is a University of Cambridge ‘Widening Participation’ programme designed to raise educational aspirations, enthusiasm, and attainment amongst teenagers through participation in archaeological excavation. Setting up, running, recording, and writing up a 1 m2 excavation which contributes to university research is structured into a varied and challenging scheme of assessed work in which learners develop and refine a range of skills — cognitive, technical, social, and personal — vital to success in education and the workplace. A total of 3496 young people took part in HEFA between 2005 and 2013, and central to its success are characteristics unique to archaeology: an interdisciplinary subject in which novices can make discoveries for themselves which are genuinely both new and important. At a time of financial retrenchment when funding for heritage is being severely cut, HEFA demonstrates the capacity of archaeology to build social capital by broadening access to higher education and helping young people gain the qualifications they need to contribute most to society in the future. This paper assesses the origins, aims, structure, and impact of the HEFA programme 2005–13, focusing in particular on the ‘Aimhigher years’ from 2005–11.