ARCHAEOLOGICAL FIELD SCHOOL: IMPLEMENTATION ANALYSIS IN INSTITUTIONS OF HIGHER EDUCATION

Abstract

The article is devoted to the analysis of the experience of organising and holding archaeological summer schools, their role in the formation of special competencies of future historians, archaeologists, teachers, employees of scientific institutions, museums and cultural heritage protection authorities. The training of future specialists in the field of history, and especially of future archaeologists, requires the mastery of specific professional skills, including practical skills in working with archaeological sources and independently organising and carrying out excavations. Some of these skills are acquired through internships during university studies. Recently, another form of organising the educational and scientific process has gained popularity – the summer archaeological field school. Scientific archaeological expeditions are often the basis for the organisation of summer schools. The school makes it possible to combine practical work at archaeological sites, lectures on archaeology and history, as well as excursions and educational activities. In 2015–2021 summer schools were organized on the basis of archaeological expeditions of the Institute of Archaeology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, involving students from the universities of Kyiv, Kharkiv, Dnipro, Kropyvnytskyi, Kryvyi Rih, Sumy and Kamianets-Podilskyi. Oleksandr Mohylov, a Senior Researcher at the Institute of Archeology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, became the head of the project. The research was carried out on the territory of well-known archaeological sites: Bilsk and Motronyn hillforts of the Scythian period, individual settlements and mounds, and the site from the second half of the 17th century on the castle hill in Chyhyryn. Thus, the students worked on different types of archaeological sites.