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Oral History Resources
How to Make History: Using Oral History in Community Studies and Service Learning Projects
This guide is based on ten years of experience with the Miami Dade County Public Schools' Intergenerational Service-Learning unit. It provides information on starting a community studies or oral history service-learning program and includes descriptions of model community studies service-learning programs and a selection of sample forms
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Hunger for Memory: Oral History Recovery in Community Service-Learning
This essay explores the value of the oral history narrative through its recovery in a service-learning course. Interrogating questions of genre, subjectivity, ethics, and composition, this paper affirms the place of oral history recovery in the composition classroom and proposes innovative strategies to remake a basic assignment into an interdisciplinary event.
http://www.servicelearning.org/library/
lib_cat/index.php?library_id=7851
Intergenerational Oral History Program: A Service Learning Model: Facilitator's Manual
This manual focuses on developing an oral history service-learning project involving youth and senior citizens. Aimed at the K-12 level, the manual is a step-by-step guide including preparation, taking action, reflection, celebration, and evaluation.
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lib_cat/index.php?library_id=4616
Keeping the Struggle Alive: Studying Desgregation in Our Town: A Guide to Doing Oral History
Case study of a New Jersey public middle school learning project examining desegregation of local schools. The program was designed by, for, and with adolescent students. It also includes information on how teachers can perform social action projects that involve youth in race and integration issues. The oral history project included historical research and interviews. Includes a curriculum guide for teaching oral history that can be adapted for any classroom.
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lib_cat/index.php?library_id=4536
Oral History: Let Their Voices Be Heard
A guide to integrating oral history and service-learning. Includes ways of integrating this kind of project with educational standards.
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lib_cat/index.php?library_id=4629
Service Learning: Service Through Oral History Projects
Service learning allows students to learn more about their classroom instruction through involvement with their local community. It is both a service given to the community, as well as a practical way for students to reflect on what they have been studying in class. The author of this article explains a service learning project which will be very amendable to, and meaningful for, middle and high school classes in the social science areas. It focuses on an ongoing project involving the author's own classes in sociology, and includes information on how this project can be duplicated, with a focus on several potential and fruitful topics that students can explore.
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lib_cat/index.php?library_id=6802
