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Peer reviewedSitton, Thad – Journal of Negro Education, 1981
Oral (or "public") Black history projects can create forms of historiography that effectively bridge the gap between textbook generalities and the living traditions of community social life. (Author/GC)
Descriptors: Black Community, Black History, Case Studies, Historiography
Peer reviewedMehaffy, George L.; Sitton, Thad – Social Studies, 1977
Presents a transcript of an interview with the director of an oral history project and with one high school student involved in the project. Focuses on how the project was conceived, negotiated, and produced within the constraints of a public school. (Author/AV)
Descriptors: Interviews, Oral History, Program Development, School Community Relationship
Sitton, Thad – Illinois Schools Journal, 1977
This paper suggests some of the more important implications of classroom oral history projects based on the example of Foxfire. (Author)
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Class Activities, Historiography, Oral History
Peer reviewedSitton, Thad – Social Studies, 1981
Offers a rationale for oral history projects and details procedures for documenting oral histories. The oral history project involves students in field work in their own communities and develops interpersonal and academic skills. Procedures include locating a suitable memoirist, conducting the initial interview, tape analysis and follow-up…
Descriptors: Educational Objectives, Elementary Secondary Education, Oral History, Skill Development
Peer reviewedMehaffy, George; Sitton, Thad – Social Education, 1977
Oral history can be done without sophisticated technology, involves students actively in history, and generates enthusiasm and tangible products. Eleven projects are suggested, ranging from classroom to interdisciplinary community research. A bibliography cites 19 books about oral history programs for social studies classes. (AV)
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Elementary Secondary Education, Learning Activities, Local History
Download full textSitton, Thad; Goodwin, Debbie – 1981
This publication contains 44 suggestions for projects which actively involve elementary and secondary students in an individual quest for a personal heritage within the topical frameworks of community, ethnic, and family history. The projects are intended to awaken students to the realization that history is all around them. The projects utilize…
Descriptors: Community Study, Elementary Secondary Education, Ethnic Studies, History Instruction
Sitton, Thad – Teacher, 1979
Described is the evolution of "Foxfire," a student-run magazine dedicated to the collection and preservation of the oral history, folklore and folklife (or traditional culture) of the students' own locality--Appalachian Georgia, wherein they collected a wide variety of materials from the living repositories of the old mountain culture.…
Descriptors: Cultural Pluralism, Elementary Secondary Education, Field Interviews, Folk Culture
Sitton, Thad; Rowold, Milam C. – 1987
This book explores the country schoolhouses of Texas' rural past. Sources include interviews with dozens of former country schoolteachers and students and first-person narratives collected from written works. Chapters cover the following topics: (1) history of public education and country schools in Texas; (2) distance travelled by teachers and…
Descriptors: Community Schools, Consolidated Schools, Educational History, Elementary Secondary Education
