Abstract: In this study, we present an educational activity of archaeology interest with young detainees of the Diavata prison and volunteer Law students. The application and evaluation of this activity reveals that providing opportunities to alternative pedagogic approaches to groups of special interest, such as young detainees, might exploit in a fertile way their various skills, assist in shifting social stereotypes and promote everyone’s right to access to civilization.
Within the framework of the ‘Diodos’ Programme for the contact of Law students of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTH) with young detainees of the Diavata prison materialised by the Department of Criminal law and Criminology, the 16th Ephorate of Prehistoric and Classical Antiquities was invited to participate in a pilot alternative intervention in the Diavata prison. The 16th Ephorate of Prehistoric and Classical Antiquities, which for the last ten years tries to broaden the social and educational role of the museum, by approaching through educational activities students, university students and groups of disabled persons, responded to this call, assuming the planning of an activity related to archaeology in prison, one of the par excellence places of social exclusion. The goals, the execution procedure, and the evaluation of this activity which took place in the 10th May 2007 are all presented in this article, after the presentation of the Greek correctional reality needs which led to the design of the “Diodos” Programme.
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