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Fernández, Natalia – Multicultural Perspectives, 2016
When multicultural educators and archivists collaborate to design projects that engage students with multicultural history through archival research, students can learn in-depth research skills with primary source documents, creatively share their knowledge, and, on a broader level, engage with their local community history. The projects shared in…
Descriptors: Multicultural Education, Archives, Partnerships in Education, Instructional Design
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Stiff-Williams, Helen; Sturtz, John P. – Social Education, 2012
A typical U.S. high school student today might be able to recite some milestones of civil rights history--the Montgomery bus boycott of 1955-56; the Freedom Rides of 1961; and (some would add) the election of the first African American president in 2008. But how many students understand that these events, which historians call out as milestones,…
Descriptors: United States History, Civil Rights, Student Projects, Oral History
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Lawton, Pamela Harris – Art Education, 2010
Shortly after the author began teaching at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte (UNCC), Frances Hawthorne, one of the studio faculty, approached her to work on a community-based art project with students. Frances is a social justice artist who works collaboratively with marginalized groups such as the homeless and inmates at the…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Oral History, Local History, Story Telling
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Schwarzlose, Richard A. – Journalism Educator, 1979
Describes the assignment of an oral history project in a communications history course offered at Northwestern University, indicating the project's benefits to teacher, students, and community. (RL)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Higher Education, Journalism, Journalism Education
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Payne, Emily Miller; Lyman, Barbara G. – Reading Improvement, 1994
Describes a family and community oral history project suitable for use in adult basic education classes. Discusses developing interview questions, gathering family history, writing and editing the text, and illustrating the final product with photographs. (RS)
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Family History, Interviews, Local History
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Mehaffy, 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
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Maas, David E. – History Teacher, 1983
A team-teaching approach to a college-level world history course using a lecture-lab format was very popular with students. One professor taught historical methods, including oral history, quantification, local history, family history, and visual history, in his labs. A detailed course outline is provided. (RM)
Descriptors: Course Content, Course Descriptions, Higher Education, Laboratories
Sitton, 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
Mehaffy, George L.; And Others – 1979
The booklet is designed to help social studies teachers initiate oral history projects. Preceding the two major sections of the document, the authors specify that oral history is more than a person with a tape recorder; need not be transcribed to be useful; need not be a big project; and is not the final product of history. The next section…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Historiography, History Instruction, Local History
Siler, Carl R., Ed. – 1991
This oral history project was completed by a Munice, Indiana high school honors U.S. history class. The students interviewed Munice residents, who during World War II either served in the military or experienced the War from the homefront. Two interview instruments were designed, one for the military front and the other for the home front. The…
Descriptors: High School Students, High Schools, Interviews, Local History
Brant, Heather; And Others – 1993
This document presents an oral history project in which 34 residents of Munice, Indiana were interviewed about their experiences and memories of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941. The project was conducted by the members of an Honors United States History class at Munice Southside High School. The students designed the…
Descriptors: High School Students, High Schools, Interviews, Local History
Mahoney, James – Today's Education: Social Studies Edition, 1982
Describes an eighth grade class history project in which students researched, wrote, and published a history of their town based on interviews with residents. The project increased personal interest in history and improved the school's relationship with the community. Suggestions for project organization and interviewing techniques are included.…
Descriptors: Grade 8, Historiography, Interviews, Junior High Schools
Connecticut Univ., Storrs. World Education Project. – 1979
These six bulletins contain teaching suggestions for ethnic, global, and multicultural programs. "Doing Family and Local History in Ethnic Studies" lists Connecticut organizations concerned with family and local history, suggests six steps for implementing a family or local history project, provides a checklist for obtaining data, and includes a…
Descriptors: Bulletins, Cultural Awareness, Educational Media, Elementary Secondary Education
Lindquist, Katie – Hands On, 1988
Describes an oral history project in which ninth graders interviewed residents of an Atlanta neighborhood facing disruption by urban development and prepared transcriptions and scrapbooks for presentation to the local historical society. (SV)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Educational Innovation, Experiential Learning, Grade 9
Woods, Alida – Active Learner: A Foxfire Journal for Teachers, 2001
Curiosity about artifacts found on school grounds led to a year-long historical and archaeological research project for fifth-graders in Isaac Dickson Elementary School (Asheville, North Carolina). Student research and interviews focused on Stumptown, a Black community formerly located on the school site. The project demonstrated the 11 Foxfire…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Black Community, Black History, Campuses
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