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Singer, Elly; Wong, Sandie – Early Child Development and Care, 2021
Early childhood education changed in the twentieth century, from mother-at-home-care in the 1950s, to professional early education today. Theoretical and social-political choices of pioneers in ECE had a profound impact on the way children's education is conceptualized. We argue from a social constructivist perspective. The oral history method is…
Descriptors: Oral History, Child Development, Learning Theories, Neoliberalism
Deery, Claire – Ethnography and Education, 2019
This paper uses ethnographic action research to explore how the objectives of the Australian Curriculum Intercultural Understanding can be achieved in a culturally diverse Year 5/6 (ages 10-12) primary school class in Melbourne. It examines whether a history unit on migration, that uses a structured historical inquiry approach, encourages…
Descriptors: History Instruction, Elementary School Students, Action Research, Cultural Awareness
Zounek, Jirí; Šimáne, Michal; Knotová, Dana – Paedagogica Historica: International Journal of the History of Education, 2018
This study focuses on the everyday operation of primary schools in Czechoslovakia during the so-called Prague Spring and the subsequent communist political clampdown after the invasion by the Warsaw Pact forces. The authors focus primarily on the experiences of teachers, how events in this complex period affected their professional lives, and how…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Social Change, Social Systems, Educational History
Connors, Sean P. – Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 2017
Building on scholarship that emphasizes a relationship between critical literacy and place-conscious pedagogy, this article describes a community inquiry project that asked undergraduates in an introductory literacy studies course to use oral histories that they collected from people in the Arkansas Ozark region to engage in placemaking and…
Descriptors: Critical Literacy, Place Based Education, Oral History, Interviews
Burgo, Clara – International Journal of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, 2016
Oral history is presented in this article as an interpretative exercise for historical events in a Spanish course for heritage language learners at the university level. Through the interview of a Latino immigrant family, students re-examined the history of their own families and increased their linguistic self-esteem. They were guided to become…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Heritage Education, Spanish, Self Esteem
Bertram, Christiane; Wagner, Wolfgang; Trautwein, Ulrich – American Educational Research Journal, 2017
The present study examined the effectiveness of the oral history approach with respect to students' historical competence. A total of 35 ninth-grade classes (N = 900) in Germany were randomly assigned to one of four conditions--live, video, text, or a (nontreated) control group--in a pretest, posttest, and follow-up design. Comparing the three…
Descriptors: Randomized Controlled Trials, Oral History, Interviews, Intervention
Dutt-Doner, Karen M.; Allen, Susan; Campanaro, Kathryn – Social Studies, 2016
Oral histories are a powerful pedagogical tool in developing historical understanding and important learning skills simultaneously. Teachers use firsthand accounts of historical time periods and/or events to help develop students' sense of history. In addition to gaining historical understanding, students are able to bring history alive by…
Descriptors: Social Studies, Teaching Methods, Oral History, Student Attitudes
Lambrev, Veselina – Alberta Journal of Educational Research, 2015
This article draws on data from a two-year qualitative study exploring the factors contributing to Roma students' disparate outcomes in Bulgaria. I utilize ethnographic observations, oral history, and in-depth interviews with twenty Roma parents to gain understanding of Roma children's "cultural capital" and relation to formal schools.…
Descriptors: Cultural Differences, Minority Groups, Minority Group Students, Foreign Countries
Hayes, Cleveland; Juarez, Brenda; Escoffrey-Runnels, Veronica – Democracy & Education, 2014
Applying culturally relevant and social justice-oriented notions of teaching and learning and a critical race theory (CRT) analysis of teacher preparation in the United States, this study examines the oral life histories of two Black male teachers recognized for their successful teaching of Black students. These histories provide us with a venue…
Descriptors: African American Teachers, African American Students, Teaching Methods, Teacher Attitudes
Teagarden, James; Zabel, Robert H.; Kaff, Marilyn – Intervention in School and Clinic, 2013
The authors present an interview with Dr. Norris Haring, University of Washington, USA, professor emeritus and founding director of the Experimental Education Center on Human Development and Disability. They report on the profound impact Dr. Haring has had on the field of educating children with disabilities. Dr. Haring was the founding president…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Teacher Attitudes, Disabilities, Editing
Patterson, Jean A.; Mickelson, Kathryn A.; Hester, Michael L.; Wyrick, John – Urban Education, 2011
The authors use womanist caring (Beauboeuf-Lafontant, 2002) as a framework for analyzing data from an oral history project of Douglass School, an all-Black school that existed in the small town of Parsons, Kansas, from 1908-1958. In-depth interviews were conducted with 55 former students who attended the school during the 1920s through when it…
Descriptors: Caring, African American Students, Oral History, Educational Objectives
Garcia, Sara Olivia – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Storytelling has been a part of inter-generational teaching and learning in all cultures. This is especially true as related to Indigenous Peoples whose stories reflect on the unique relationships between place, human and non-human entities, and virtues that emphasize respect, courage, generosity, humility, and integrity. For thousands of years,…
Descriptors: American Indian Culture, Story Telling, Indigenous Populations, American Indians
Baptist, Willie; Rehmann, Jan – Teachers College Press, 2011
In this book, the authors present a new kind of interdisciplinary pedagogy that brings together antipoverty grassroots activism and relevant social theories about poverty. Closely linked to the Poverty Initiative at Union Theological Seminary, this unique book combines the oral history of a renowned antipoverty organizer with accessible…
Descriptors: Poverty, Economically Disadvantaged, Instruction, Activism
Bedrossian, Mindy J. – Science Teacher, 2010
The 20th century saw some of the most important technological and scientific discoveries in the history of humankind. The space shuttle, the internet, and other modern advances changed society forever, and yet many students cannot imagine what life was like before these technologies existed. In the project described here, students take a firsthand…
Descriptors: Science History, Innovation, Science Instruction, Interviews
Johnson, Edric C. – Social Studies, 2007
Social studies teacher educators highlight the importance of oral stories and histories in the social studies classroom, leading social studies learners to seek multiple perspectives and encourage historical thinking in the classroom. However, preservice teachers are given few opportunities to internalize this idea. In this article, the author…
Descriptors: Teacher Educators, Preservice Teachers, Oral History, Social Studies