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Mesolore: Learning to think critically

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The oppressors...react almost instinctively to any experiment in education which stimulates the critical faculties and is not content with a partial view of reality but which always seeks out the ties which link one point to another and one problem to another. (Freire, 1970 [1968]:60)

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Los autores son los creadores de Mesolore, un programa educacional multidisciplinario e interactivo diseñado para instruir a los estudiantes sobre las culturas de Mesoamérica, en el pasado y presente. Ellos describen la estructura e intento de su proyecto multidisciplinario y multivocal con la arqueología.

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Les auteurs sont les créateurs de Mesolore, un programme éducatif, multidisciplinaire et interactif, conçu pour enseigner aux étudiants les cultures Mésoaméricaines, anciennes et présentes. Ils décrivent la structure et l'intention de leur engagement pluridisciplinaire et non univoque dans l'archéologie.

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Bakewell, L., Ellsworth Hamann, B. Mesolore: Learning to think critically. Arch 1, 71–82 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11759-005-0022-6

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