ADDRESSING THE NEW AGENDA FOR FIELDWORK IN HIGHER-EDUCATION

Recent changes in higher education in the UK effectively make the trad itional mode of fieldwork delivery unsustainable. This, coupled with c riticisms of past fieldwork practices, suggests the need for a thoroug h re-evaluation of the role and delivery of fieldwork programmes in co ntemporary higher education. A prudent place to start addressing this new agenda is an evaluation of some basic educational theory and the o bjectives of fieldwork. From such basic considerations, some of the co ntemporary problems with teaching fieldwork can be more effectively ta ckled and strategies for designing field exercises devised.