Secondary education and public archeology as a tool for teaching science, literacy and interpersonal relations across demograhic boundaries

塔纳纳酋长会议(TCC)是一个原住民非营利性组织，积极参与各种教育和土地管理计划，通过这些计划向阿拉斯加高度贫困的阿萨巴斯卡土著部落和个人提供联邦资助的政府服务。拟议的项目是TCC开发的创新项目的延伸，该项目通过考古实地研究的媒介，提高高危青年的教育成果。TCC方法将学生参与为期一周的科学考察与在阿拉斯加荒野环境中的指导学习结合在一起。通过设计，这个领域和学习环境在情感上是强烈的，在某种程度上点燃了个人的承诺，并培养了小群体的社会团结。同样是通过设计，TCC从多种族、多文化的人口池中吸引学生和教师队列。通过这种方式，学生从一系列世界观和行为期望中收集和合成有效的学习风格。这一方法还推进了TCC的第二个目标，即通过考古研究管理《国家历史保护法》规定的文化资源。根据部队派遣国目前的提议，这些与目标有关的活动将扩大，每年夏天向阿拉斯加更多教育机构的中学生和本科生提供更多的课程。

Tanana Chiefs Conference (TCC) is a Native non-profit organization that is actively engaged in a variety of educational and land management programs through which it delivers federally funded government services to highly disadvantaged indigenous Athabaskan tribes and individuals in Alaska. The proposed project is an extension of a TCC developed innovative program that increases educational outcomes for at-risk youth through the medium of archaeological field research. The TCC approach combines student participation in weeklong scientific expeditions with guided study in Alaskan wilderness settings. By design, the field and learning situation are emotionally intense, in a way that kindles individual commitment and nurture small-group social solidarity. Also by design, TCC draws the student and instructor cohorts from a multi-ethnic, multi-cultural demographic pool. In this way, students gather and synthesize effective learning styles from a range of worldviews and behavioral expectations. This approach also advances a second,TCC goal, the management of cultural resources mandate under the National Historic Preservation Act through archaeological research. Under TCCs present proposal, these goal related activities will expand by offering more sessions each summer to secondary and undergraduate students from a greater number of educational institutions in Alaska.