While I agree pretty much with Jurjen, I think a section about discussing teaching methods and approaches might indeed be helpful. However, as I stated on fb already, where my statement miraculously disaapeared, we should keep the terminology right. Experimental archaeology is an academic discipline, which includes developing a question, building up an experiment, conducting the experiment, evaluating and discussing the results, and publication (!) of the results. If one of these steps is missing it is just a personal test or such, nut not experimental archaeology. "Reenactment" as much is a method of history / source investigation , but most people understand something else by it nowadays, i.e. wearing historic costumes etc. The actual and correct term for what most people here do is "Living History", which may have an educational character or a private character. Meanwhile there is a bunch of academic literature on this subject, about the how´s and don´ts etc. Here are some helpful titles I really recommend to read:
http://www.amazon.de/Museum-experimentel...3899744004
http://www.amazon.de/Geschichtstheater-H...=hochbruck
If you know German.
The there is this helpful book:
N. Merriman (Hg.), Making Early His- tories in Museums, London 1999.
in it one article by ur Simon James, really worth reading:
S. JAMES, Imag(in)ing the Past: The Politics and Practicalities of Reconstructions in the Museum Gallery, in: N. Merriman (Hg.), Making Early His- tories in Museums, London 1999, P. 117-135.
Also interesting:
S. LEHMANN-BRAUNS et al. (Hgg.) The Exhibition as Product and Generator of Scholarship, Preprint 399 des MAX-Planck-Insituts für Wissenschafts- geschichte, 2010,
http://www.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/Preprints/P399.PDF .
J.R. Mathieu (Hg.) Experimental Acrhaeology - Replicating past objects, be-
haviors, and processees, Oxford 2002.
E.U. PIRKER et al. (Hgg.) Echte Geschichte. Authentizitätsfiktionen in populären Geschichtskulturen, Bielefeld 2010.
P.B. RICHTER, Experimentelle Archäologie: Ziele, Methoden, Aussage-Möglichkeiten, in: M. Fansa (Hg.), Von der Altsteinzeit über „Ötzi“ bis zum Mittelalter, Ausgewählte Beiträge zur Experimentellen Archäologie in Europa 1990-2003 (Experimentelle Archäologie in Europa, Sonderband 1), Oldenburg 2005, S. 95-128.
M. SCHMIDT, Museumspädagogik ist keine Experimentelle Archäologie. Einige
kurze Anmerkungen zu 14 Jahren museumspädagogischer Arbeit im Archäologischen Freilichtmuseum Oerlinghausen, in: M. Fansa (Hg.), Von der Altsteinzeit über „Ötzi“ bis zum Mittelalter, Ausgewählte Bei- träge zur Experimentellen Archäologie in Europa 1990-2003 (Experi- mentelle Archäologie in Europa, Sonderband 1), Oldenburg 2005, S. 263-268.
M. WALZ, Sehen, Verstehen: Historisches Spiel im Museum - zwischen Didaktik und Marketing, in: J. Carstensen et al. (Hgg.), Living History im Museum, Möglichkeiten und Grenzen einer populären Vermittlungs- form, Münster 2008, S. 15-43.
generally:
J. CARSTENSEN et al. (Hgg.), Living History im Museum, Möglichkeiten und
Grenzen einer populären Vermittlungsform, Münster 2008.
There is much more, though.
Christian K.
No reconstruendum => No reconstruction.
Ut desint vires, tamen est laudanda voluntas.