The title of this licentiate thesis is: Urban contract archaeology, public outreach and schools. Beyond the horizons of history teaching.   The aim of my licentiate thesis is to investigate how educational programs for schools are implemented within the framework of contract archaeology. I study the underlying incentives that motivate public outreach within contract archaeology, who carries out the outreach and what impact educational programs have on schools. My research project also aims to explore how public outreach within contract archaeology can be organized to meet schools´ demand for knowledge and activities. With an interdisciplinary approach, taken from archaeology and educational sciences, the goal is to instigate a dialogue between the scientific community and contract archaeology, as well as between contract archaeology and schools. As a primary goal, midway into in my doctoral degree, I have chosen in this licentiate thesis to study the practices of public outreach on urban excavation sites in Sweden, specifically studying outreach practices towards schools. The research queries in the licentiate thesis are:   What are the purposes and objectives with public outreach in contract archaeology? What are the preconditions for working with public outreach in contract archaeology? How are the practices of public outreach aimed at schools conducted at urban excavation sites? How do educational programs within contract archaeology address the needs and goals of school education?   Based on these queries, I also discuss how contract archaeology in the future can make possible broader collaborations with schools. This serves as an introduction to how archaeo-didactics can evolve bringing together contract archaeology's goals and potential in an educational situation, with the needs and goals of school education.

I denna rapport kommer vi att beskriva hur vi skapat och utvecklat ett skolprogram på Vetenskapens Hus (VH) i samarbete med Scania. Skolprogrammen på VH består av en teoretisk del och en laboration som riktas till elever i grundskolan och på gymnasiet. Syftet med examensarbetet är att undersöka möjligheter att öka teknikintresset hos högstadieelever genom att skapa ett skolprogram på VH med koppling till den teknik som finns på Scania. Utgångspunkten är de teorier som Knud Illeris använder och hans dimensioner, Harlens teorier om undersökningsbaserad vetenskap samt Peter Senges discipliner. Efter ett besök på Scania, där vi fick se delar av deras produktionslina bestämde vi oss för att skolprogrammet skulle handla om Lean produktion. Detta beslutades eftersom idén gillades av handledaren från Scania samt att det vår något genomförbart på VH och att den inte liknade något av de befintliga skolprogrammen. Datainsamlingen skedde först och främst genom observationer gjorda på elever som går i högstadiet. De tre första grupperna är praoelever som praktiserar på VH och sedan ytterligare tre grupper som kommer från klasser runt omkring Stockholm som vi bjudit in. Det kommer även finnas datainsamling genom enkäter som delas ut till eleverna efter besöket på VH samt intervjuer med respektive lärare. Utifrån dessa data kommer vi fram till att eleverna förlorar fokus då de saknar stimulering i undervisningen och därmed behöver läraren ständigt arbeta med produktiva frågor för att leda eleverna och stimulera dem i deras arbete. / This article will describe how we have created and evolved a school program in Vetenskapens Hus (VH) in collaboration with Scania. The purpose is to create a school program about Lean production because this represents many industries way of working. Our starting point is the theories written by Knud Illeris’ and his descriptions about dimensions, Harlen’s theories about inquiry in science education aswell as Peter Senges’ theories. The mission was to create a school program in the subject technical science which reflects Scania’s worksite, where Scania is the main sponsor for VH. We got inspired to make a school program about Lean production after a visit at one of Scania’s production sites since VH did not have any other school programs were the goal was Lean. The collection of data was made by observations on high schoolers, year 13-16. The first three groups will be students who do a work experience program in VH and then three more groups that come from classes in the city Stockholm. There will be more data collection through surveys given to the students after the visit at VH as well as interviews with their respectively teacher. The data collected gives us the insight that these students lose their focus when they are not stimulated. This means that the teacher needs work by asking productive questions to lead the students and stimulate them in their work.