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Brockie, Clarena Mary. "Ah'ani'nin Oral History." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/283732.
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In earlier times An'ani'nin lived together and in the winter months retold oral histories and stories, especially those which they wanted to impress upon the people as important to remember. Children were taught lessons through oral history. The youth also participated in ceremonies, learned the songs, lived as the Ah'ani'nin taught them and were told the importance of the way of the life of the An'ani'nin. This is how they kept a record of their ceremonies, cutlure, their kinship relations, their economy and governance. By practice and re-telling the history their culture was maintained. Stories were told as women worked, and in the evening when men were off hunting or at social or religious gatherings. In this thesis, I have collected stories about the Ah'ani'nin, stories of legends, history, the trickster stories and discussed how these stories in the past helped the Ah'ani'nin and how they can help the people today.
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Delgado, Godinez Esperanza. "Mexicanidad an oral history /." Online full text .pdf document, available to Fuller patrons only, 2003. http://www.tren.com.
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Chen, Xin S. M. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. "Lin Tongqi : an oral history." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/90230.
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Thesis: S.M. in Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 2014.Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
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In this thesis, I explore the life of Professor Lin Tongqi, a well-known scholar of American Chinese studies, by using an oral history methodology. This oral history is named "Suffering and Thinking," and my goal is to illustrate how a thoughtful soul developed. His life is a trajectory in which Western and Eastern cultures are integrated, a life that is full of confusions and reliefs, challenges and responses, twists and turns, and unexpected insights and transcendences. This oral history also illustrates in a microcosm the fate of intellectuals who lived during the approximately 100-hundred-year tumult and transformation that resulted in modern-day China. Looking back is one way to consider the future. A conversation with Lin Tongqi on Ancient Chinese thoughts follows, which touches on several factors: the dynamics of understanding the Chinese culture, comparative methods of culture study, the relationships between eternal issues and contemporary issues, as well as a brief discussion on the issues facing contemporary China, and the future of Chinese society.
by Xin Chen.
S.M. in Management
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GISH, SHIRLEY. "AN ORAL HISTORY OF SELECTED TWENTIETH-CENTURY TEACHERS OF ORAL INTERPRETATION OF LITERATURE." Diss., The University of Arizona, 1987. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/184060.
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The oral transmission of history dates back to the Greeks as does the history of the subject of oral interpretation of literature. In the twentieth century the deliberate collection of oral histories has become popular as an adjunct to written documents. With the assumption that oral history can add to written documents in any field, this dissertation tests the tool of oral history as a means of contributing to the history of the field of oral interpretation of literature. The research consists of four formally collected oral histories with prominent, retired, and long-time teachers of oral interpretation of literature in universities. Interviewed were Dr. Alethea Mattingly, professor of speech on the faculty of the University of Arizona until 1974; Dr. Isabel Crouch, Professor at New Mexico State University until 1986; Dr. Charlotte Lee, Professor at Northwestern University until 1974; Dr. Wallace A. Bacon, Professor and head of the department of interpretation at Northwestern University until 1979. The review of literature was drawn from the history of oral interpretation of literature, the history of the use of oral history, and the current material on oral history methodology as well as discussion on the uses and products of oral history work in other fields. A description of the arrangements made for and used in the actual interviews is included with observations on the transcription and the transactional nature of the interviews. An evaluation of the range and kinds of information derived from examination of these collected oral history transcripts is made in the final chapter for findings and conclusions. Information of corroboration and new information from the interviews did add to written histories in oral interpretation. Conclusions point to facts and ideas a historian might find of use, particularly future biographical studies. Suggestion is made that students with interviewing skills be encouraged to continue collection of oral histories to add to the storehouse of data for primary resource material. Oral history also proves to be a fine source for the rich portrayal of a human personality. As well as collecting data, oral history proves to be a unique and irreplaceable document.
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Blake, L. J. "An oral history of British food activism." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 2018. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/21655/.
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This thesis is based on seventeen oral history life story interviews with key members of a variety of food activist movements in Britain. A collaborative project with the British Library, the recorded interviews subsequently comprised a public archive on food activism in the oral history collections. The food activist movements cover a wide range of issues, from fair trade, animal welfare and anti-GM, to organic agriculture, community urban farms, nutrition, public health and waste. Through the oral history method, a number of themes relating to food activism are explored. These include, the relationship between food, politics and identity; the dynamics of motivation and emotions, such as optimism and positivity, in activism; the role of image, both personal and organisational, in furthering the cause; and the tensions between alternative and mainstream approaches to food systems change. The thesis contributes to literatures in food geographies, food activism and policy, social movements and oral history life story.
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Munz, Stevie M. "The Farmer's Wife: An Oral History Project." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1469038905.
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Kalin, Judith D. (Judith Diane) Carleton University Dissertation Psychology. "The C.R. Myer's Oral History Collection; investigation of the utility of Myers' Oral History Collection to the development of the history of psychology in Canada." Ottawa, 1996.
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Bramley, Anne Frances. "Women and colonialism : archival history and oral memory." Thesis, University of Bristol, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1983/49aa5d75-3f4c-4485-822d-f91ceb0e6387.
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Representations of Britain's colonial history have predominantly been 'official' ones, which tend to focus on well-documented administrative accounts and imply that one 'true' account of the past exists. More recently, white women's accounts have been incorporated, highlighting their participation in Britain's imperial adventure, particularly during and after the World Wars. East Africa provides the context in which this range of narratives will be explored: Its 'racial' hierarchies; its different designation of land as colonies, protectorates and territories; and its active white settler population in Kenya, which of necessity sought a place for its women, all contribute to its interesting past. This thesis first explores the range of historical representations surrounding Britain's colonial relationship with East Africa, and subsequently focuses on the portrayal of white women. This enables an exploration of the ways these women negotiated their positions in both private spheres, as was more commonly expected; but also in public ways that challenged discourses of femininity at the time. Their challenge became increasingly prevalent as greater numbers of women sought independence, the Empire being one place that enabled white women who went there to realise their 'modern' ambitions to 'civilise' and 'develop' the colonial world. These ambitions however, existed in tension with the oppressive nature of colonialism. If traditional historical accounts have stuck to the 'grand narratives' of colonial history, then turning to white women's oral histories reveals more complex historical narratives. These personal stories emphasise the divisions the women lived within and maintained, as well as demonstrating how myth has come to exist through their memories, now sustaining a colonial image of East Africa. Furthermore, these narratives provide challenging examples of how we can interpret the legacies of 'colonialism' in contemporary, 'postcolonial' realities. The contradictions they reveal hold powerful implications for the way that colonial history is represented in Britain today.
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Swedin, Eric G. "The Swett Homestead: An Oral History 1909-1970." DigitalCommons@USU, 1991. https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd/7206.
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Making extensive use of oral interviews with the surviving children, this thesis is an biography of Oscar and Emma Swett and their children, who lived on a homestead in Greendale, Utah, (near Flaming Gorge Reservoir) from 1909 to 1970. The family is representative of a group of families who moved to Greendale and engaged in small-scale cattle ranching. The introduction of new technology changed their lifestyles and homestead economics, while simultaneously Greendale evolved from a rural agricultural environment to become part of a National Recreation Area.
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Xu, Apple Yaping. "The oral testimony and the embodied witness: orality, intersubjectivity, and Chinese oral history documentary film." HKBU Institutional Repository, 2013. https://repository.hkbu.edu.hk/etd_oa/24.
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In order to explore the embodiment of oral history in documentary film this study sets out its analysis in two sections. The first section concentrates on understanding the issue of intersubjectivity in Walter Ong’s idea of ‘orality’, namely, orality as characterized by an interactive relation between speaker and listener, based on the sensual-perceptual experience of sound phenomenon and the expressive act of the spoken word. Additionally, in this first section, intersubjectivity in cinematic experience is also investigated in relation to early German film theorists’ romantic conceptions of filmic ‘gesture’. Employing a ‘performance-centered’ approach, the second section of the dissertation analyzes how the oral testimony and the embodied witness collaboratively produce historical knowledge on the scene of interviewing and beyond. This section will also consist of three case studies covering three broad areas of historical identity: 1. Women induced into sexual slavery by Japanese troops (the so-called ‘comfort women’); 2. Villagers affected by the Great Leap Forward Famine, and 3. Intellectuals affected by political persecutions during the era of Mao.
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Bandini, Tobia. "Hip hop and the Afroamerican community: an oral history." Bachelor's thesis, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, 2015. http://amslaurea.unibo.it/9228/.
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Un'analisi cronologica della situazione politica e sociale della comunità Afroamericana negli Stati Uniti e di come questa abbia influenzato la nascita e lo sviluppo dell'hip hop come manifestazione culturale
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Anderson, Carolyn A. "The voices of older lesbian women an oral history /." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2001. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp04/nq64850.pdf.
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Gamlin, Gordon S. (Gordon Sebastian). "Michael Ondaatje's representation of history and the oral narrative." Thesis, McGill University, 1991. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=56797.
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This study examines the function of oral narratives in Michael Ondaatje's representation of history. Ondaatje employs a variety of thematic, structural and stylistic oral narrative strategies in this inquiry. In the course of this work he faces the challenge of translating the open oral quality of the "tale" to the page. Ondaatje's longer prose works counter the printed text's tendency towards stasis through oral narrative and paralinguistic devices. Gradually, the aesthetics of public storytelling inform the process of historiographic revision. Within the oral model, ostensibly verifiable historical facts are no longer subjected to the laws of linear causality; therefore, any central single voice must relinquish its conventional claim to authority. Instead, several "speakers" tell of a shared history. Whereas conventional historiography often focuses on the effect of major historic forces, Ondaatje's oral model reveals how those on the periphery shape and define a given incident. Ultimately, the various participatory agents create the central event in the telling. The study concludes that Ondaatje employs oral narrative strategies to revise monolithic notions of history and to offer an open representation which draws attention to complexities ignored by conventional accounts.
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Franklin, Ieuan. "Folkways and airwaves : oral history, community and vernacular radio." Thesis, Bournemouth University, 2009. http://eprints.bournemouth.ac.uk/15995/.
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This thesis investigates a variety of uses of actuality (recorded speech), oral history and folklore (vernacular culture) in radio broadcasting in Britain and Newfoundland (Canada). The broadcasting of vernacular culture will be shown to foster intimate and interactive relationships between broadcasters and audiences. Using a theoretical framework that draws upon the work of communications theorists Harold Innis and Walter Ong, the thesis will explore the (secondary) orality of radio broadcasting, and will consider instances in which the normative unidirectional structure and 'passive' orality of radio has been (and can be) made reciprocal and active through the participation of listeners. The inclusion of 'lay voices' and 'vernacular input' in radio broadcasting will be charted as a measure of the democratization of radio, and in order to demonstrate radio's role in disseminating oral history, promoting dialogue, and building and binding communities. The thesis will predominantly focus on local and regional forms of radio: the BBC Regions in the post-war era; regional radio programming serving the Canadianprovince ofNewfoundland both pre- and post-Confederation (which took place in 1949); and the community radio sector in the UK during the last five years. A common theme of many of the case studies within the thesis will be the role of citizen participation in challenging, transgressing or eroding editorial control, institutional protocols and the linguistic hegemony of radio production. Conversely, close attention will be given to the ways in which editorial control in radio production has circumscribed the self-definition of participants and communities. These case studies will provide evidence with which to investigate the following research question - is the democratization of radio possible through the incorporation of citizen voices or messages within radio production or programming, or is it only possible through changing the medium itself through citizen participation in democratic structures of production, management and ownership?
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Allison, Christine. "Views of history and society in Yezidi oral tradition." Thesis, SOAS, University of London, 1996. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.362855.
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The Yezidis are a Kurdish-speaking religious minority living mainly in Northern Iraq. In the past their religion forbade literacy: thus their accounts of their history and their descriptions of their society ha ve been preserved orally. This thesis considers how the Yezidis use oral literature. or verbal art. to represent themselves and their past. It is based largely on fieldwork carried out in Northern Iraq. The theoretical perspective of this work combines elements of both literary and social studies by considering both text and social context. The genre of a tradition has major implications for its content; three genres considered in detail are lyrical song. prose narrative and extemporised lament. Yezidi discourse about the past stresses their distinctive identity and their endurance against adversity and persecution. This is reflected in the oral traditions. especially in the lyrical song. which is performed at festivals and is extremely popular; prose narratives of events predating the immediate past. on the other hand. are in decline. Most love songs and stories feature historical figures; the performance of lyrical love songs. many of which depict conflict between the wishes of the individual and the rules of a society where marriage is arranged. provides an outlet for the audience's own emotions. Laments are performed by women. Using traditional imagery. they are a vehicle for the expression of a variety of emotions by the performer. Their performance is a social duty and is likely to remain so. The texts included in this work comprise variants of two historical themes. Feriq Pa~a and DawLide Dawtid; variants of a theme of love, Derwe~e C E.,di. and examples of women's lament. both semi-professional and personal. Some of these were transcribed from material collected during fieldwork; all were translated for this thesis. An appendix lists performers and informants.
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Hanson, Christine Joan. "Clinical competency in oral surgery : history, challenges and solutions." Thesis, University of Dundee, 2015. https://discovery.dundee.ac.uk/en/studentTheses/71eba1df-fc6e-4418-ba06-3c3d829d1448.
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This multifaceted study documents validates, and verifies the changes in oral surgery teaching in Dundee University Dental School, which have changed with time to accommodate the demands of an ever increasingly complex discipline. Availability of instructive teaching material in hard copy and as video and text on the internet combined with close clinical supervision and detailed assessment with feedback allows students to attain competency in exodontia with falling patient numbers. It has been demonstrated that the undergraduate training in the oral surgery clinics still attains competency or BDS standard of ‘safe beginner’ for simple extractions and minor oral surgery, despite fewer procedures being carried out. The criteria used for undergraduate assessment and marking of exodontia have been validated in house and nationally. These are appropriate, objective and reliable. Using Thiel cadavers is a valid and reliable method of teaching undergraduate students the technique of extraction with forceps prior to their clinical exposure. Further employment of the cadavers for continuing practice and the introduction of new skills has been mooted. The use of the ‘Blackboard’ was investigated and found not to be well used; the effort to produce the work was not well directed since it was not taken advantage of by the whole year nor very frequently by those who do use it. Alternative methods of engaging the student to investigate and research the discipline have been suggested. Encouragement of the students to interact more when the exodontia clinic time is available for this opportunity has been introduced and suggestions to increase this activity to enhance the teaching of core topics have been made. From apprehension to enjoyment our student assure us that they find this discipline worthwhile whilst acknowledging that it will not be a practice builder and that they are equipped to deal with simple oral surgery procedures.
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du, Boulay Alethea Blanche. "The role of oral history in interpreting a place." Thesis, Curtin University, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/1163.
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To understand the role of oral history in interpreting a place, oral history methodology was used to explore place from a cultural point of view and interpretation through the constructivist approach. Kalamunda, Western Australia, was used as the subject place for this research and a series of oral history interviews were conducted with members of the community. The research supports previous studies and asserts that oral history methodology has a key position in the interpretation of place.
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Rüdeberg, Oscar. "Att skapa oral history : En undersökning av samtidsdokumentation i tre statliga kulturarvsarkiv." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för ABM, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-253665.
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This study aims to examine how heritage archives in Sweden create oral history by the conduction of interviews. Though previous research have shown that this is a task suitable for archives, there have been a lack of knowledge of how this is actually beeing done. Also, oral history have not earlier been studied in relation to the archives larger objectives. The heritage institutions that have been examined are Sjöhistoriska museet, Visarkivet and Dialekt- och folkminnesarkivet I Uppsala. They are all part of public authoritys and use oral history to create more pluralistic and diverse archive collections. The theory being used to analyze these heritage institution is derived from Terry Cooks article “ Evidence, memory, identity, and community: four shifting archival paradigms”. The main method used to understand the creation of oral history in swedish archives have been to interview chiefs and personnel working whith the collections. Important documents, web pages and laws that govern the work have also been analyzed. A result of this study is that the heritage institutions, dispite that they are governed by public authoritys, are relatively free to decide what to collect and how. Two main perspectives guide the archives. The first is the notion that something is in need of beeing documented before it´s to late. The second can be described as a strategy to fill in collection gaps. This is a two years master’s thesis in Archive, Library and Museum studies.
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Roberts, Erica. "Developing gerontological nursing in British Columbia : an oral history study." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/5116.
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The population of older adults has grown rapidly in recent years and is expected to
continue to grow into the middle of this century. The aging of the population means that
nurses need to have specialized gerontological knowledge in order to properly care for older
adults. In spite of the current need for specialists in this field, gerontological nursing is not a
popular choice and nurses often lack adequate preparation to care for older adults. The
complex reasons behind these issues are rooted in the history of the development of this
specialty.
This study takes a historical look at the development of gerontological nursing in
British Columbia through the stories of seven nurse educators who were leaders and
innovators in their field. The findings of the study tell a story of the nurses’ work to change
unacceptable nursing practice, improve standards of care and professional status of
gerontological nursing and advocate for older adults. In doing so, these nurses challenged
cultural values about aging and care of older adults and worked toward giving gerontological
nurses a voice in policy and decision-making. The findings from this study can be used to
guide today’s gerontological nurses as they continue to develop this specialized field of
nursing knowledge.
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Hall, Joe. "An oral history of England international rugby union players, 1945-1995." Thesis, De Montfort University, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/2086/16283.
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This thesis is the first oral history study of English rugby union. Through personally conducted interviews, it focuses on the experiences of men who played rugby union for England in the post-war, amateur era, and considers what they can tell us about both the sport and the society of which it was a part. The period it covers begins with the end of the Second World War, in 1945, and ends when rugby union ceased to be an amateur sport, in 1995. These fifty years were a time of both change and continuity, and it is a primary concern of this thesis to consider the extent of each in both rugby union and in wider society. Through looking at, in particular, English rugby union’s links with education, its relationship with work in a period in which its players were amateur, and its place on the spectrum of class, this study demonstrates, above all, the durability of rugby union’s social core, even in the midst of outward change to the sport. In doing so, it makes an important contribution to the historiography of both British sport and post-war Britain more generally, arguing for consideration of social continuity among a field largely dominated by notions of change. It also constitutes a unique study of a particular group of middle-class men, and demonstrates that sport – and oral history – can add much to our understanding of post-war social history.
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Ramey, Peter A. "Studies in oral tradition history and prospects for the future /." Diss., Columbia, Mo. : University of Missouri-Columbia, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10355/5003.
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Thesis (M.A.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 2007.The entire dissertation/thesis text is included in the research.pdf file; the official abstract appears in the short.pdf file (which also appears in the research.pdf); a non-technical general description, or public abstract, appears in the public.pdf file. Title from title screen of research.pdf file (viewed on November 1, 2007) Includes bibliographical references.
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Tang, Lynn. "An oral history of women cleaning workers in Hong Kong." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2006. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B37224761.
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Tang, Lynn, and 鄧琳. "An oral history of women cleaning workers in Hong Kong." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2006. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B37224761.
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Farley, Lisa A. "Community education in Indiana from 1965-1987 : an oral history." Virtual Press, 2005. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1325990.
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From 1965 through the 1980's, community education was endorsed and promoted in Indiana by the C.S. Mott Foundation of Flint, Michigan. The Mott Foundation issued nearly $2 million in grant money to the Institute for Community Education Development (ICED) at Ball State University to encourage local communities in Indiana and a four-state region to develop community education programs and processes. This money was granted to Ball State University and the ICED for several purposes: 1) to promote the concept of Community Education, 2) to provide and manage seed money incentive grants made to local public school corporations who adopted the concept, 3) to provide training and academic programs to local program leaders, and 4) to support the development of Community Education in the state through consultant services and other appropriate forms of assistance. After twenty-two years of activity and investment, the Mott Foundation-focused development of community education in Indiana through the Institute for Community Education Development (ICED) was phased out.This research was conducted using an Oral History methodology in which a thorough literature review was completed, ICED yearly reports and other literature provided background and triangulation, and eight interviewees were interviewed and audio-recorded for a total of twenty-one interviews. Recordings were each transcribed and stored by the principle investigator. Participants were interviewed a total of one to three times each, dependent upon the information obtained during each interview.This study provides a written historical report of some of the developments of community education in the State of Indiana that were due, in part, to the ICED consultants. This study also describes the community education development strategies in Indiana by the ICED staff. Additionally, this study reports some of the strengths and weaknesses of the strategies utilized by ICED professionals in Indiana's development of community education as reported by the interviewees. Those interested in educational development may utilize this study to gain insights from some of the lessons found in Indiana's Community Education development experience from 1965 through 1987.Department of Educational Studies
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Barreno, Jessica. "Borders and Belonging: Using Oral History to Renegotiate Salvadoran Transnationalism." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2016. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/1310.
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This thesis elucidates new perspectives on transnational migration. The analysis draws from three oral histories that recount border-crossings and their unique impact on Salvadoran immigrant self-realization. The oral histories presented refine the study of transnational migration by providing valuable qualitative information that supplements and nuances empirical fact.
The first subject, whose story takes place in the 1970s just before the outbreak of the Salvadoran civil war, constructs identity through an embrace of assimilationist practices. The second narrative, occurring just after the civil war, is of a woman who navigates hegemonic Anglo structures by appropriating a space of her own. The third subject, a man who immigrates in the wake of post-9/11 heightened security concerns, desires permanent settlement; however, his undocumented status prevents him from fully integrating into American mainstream society. Additionally, an analytical focus on transnationalism reveals an important relationship with gendered identities. Through close analysis, these narratives reveal how Salvadoran immigrants have renegotiated what it means to belong in the United States. Overall this thesis contributes to a relatively young and undeveloped line of research on Salvadoran migration, particularly through its focus on gender.
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Suman, Sonia Davi. "Oral-visual contradiction : seeing and hearing in Shakespeare's history plays." Thesis, University of Leicester, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/2381/28626.
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Scholarship in the latter half of the twentieth century did much to rehabilitate Shakespeare’s early histories into the canon. Discarded on the grounds of collaborative authorship or lack of unity, the Henry VI trilogy has perhaps suffered the most. This dissertation brings together sensory and historiographical theories in order to demonstrate that the first tetralogy exposes the limitations of historical narrative. Historical ‘truth’ is easily distorted: initially through the individual’s failure to interpret sensory information and then through the writer who records those events. These fundamental questions about the credibility of knowledge and truth remain a central concern throughout the second tetralogy, King John and Henry VIII. The questionable truth-telling powers of sight and sound independent from one another are a recurring motif in Shakespeare’s histories; skewed perception or selective hearing can have disastrous consequences. Motives are frequently ambiguous and the plays abound in trial scenes that are never satisfactorily resolved. Often the audience are invited to accept a ‘truth’ that contradicts the evidence of the play either in its text, its performance or in comparison to contemporary history plays. Henry VIII, with its titular claim that ‘All is True’ alongside glaring historical omissions, is an example of the early modern obsession with paradox. Cranmer’s highly selective presentation of a glorious untroubled future, though clearly not true, is a satisfying and restorative narrative. A similar contradiction reveals itself in my case study of preaching at St Mary Spital. At this event, preachers and City Fathers collude in a highly selective presentation of London as a charitable and exemplary city, though this may well have been contradicted by other visual evidence on the occasion. Both plays and sermons thus presented the paradox of a fictive narrative that could be openly contradicted, but that simultaneously provided consolation.
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Kruse, Michael. "This Land Is Our Land| A Public Lands Oral History." Thesis, Prescott College, 2017. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10247764.
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There are over 650 million acres of federal public lands in the United States that allow access to nature. Public lands are utilized for a variety of different activities, ranging from preservation to resource extraction. Regardless of proximity, public lands belong to everyone in the United Sates. From January to August 2016, I opportunistically and purposively collected sixteen interviews in Arizona, a state with 38.5% federal public lands, and sixteen in Texas (1.5% federal public lands), to document attitudes, opinions, and ideas about public lands in the United States. Conducting such interviews provides insight into the many different perspectives that people from different areas and backgrounds have about public land, and also acts as a medium for outreach and education. Although the data collected is not representative, it exemplifies different opinions that exist in regards to public land. Opinions such as these can affect management policy and inform how people advocate for public lands now and in the future. I attempted to capture candid responses from the interviewees utilizing an open-ended interview guide to elicit the interviewee’s emotions, reactions, attitudes, and opinions towards public lands. All interviewees appreciated access to nature through public lands regardless of their experience with or knowledge about them. Most interviewees were familiar with national parks, but not all knew about national forests, national wildlife refuges, wilderness areas, or the national system of public lands. Several themes emerged, including issues of access, extractive industries such as grazing and mining, and discussions of federal versus state management.
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Payne, Briana. "Oral History of Bonton and Ideal Neighborhoods in Dallas, Texas." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2015. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc848166/.
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The Bonton and Ideal neighborhoods in Dallas Texas, developed in the early 1900s, experienced physical and social decay throughout the 1980s. Neighborhood organizations and resident activism were vital to the rebirth of the community in the 1990s. Current revitalization efforts taking place there have been a source of contention as the neighborhood continues to overcome inequalities created by decades of racialized city planning initiatives. This thesis focuses on how the structuring structure of whiteness has historically affected, and continues to affect, the neighborhoods of Ideal and Bonton, as well as acts to identify how black residents have navigated their landscape and increased their collective capital through neighborhood activism.
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Whitworth, Colin. "BLESS OUR HEARTS: TOWARDS A MODEL FOR QUEER ORAL HISTORY." OpenSIUC, 2020. https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/dissertations/1792.
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This dissertation offers an outlined proposal and a model for practicing queer oral history—a nuancing of oral history praxis. Queer oral history is rooted in performance studies’ call to consider everyday texts alongside Dwight Conquergood’s (1985) articulations of ethical and dialogic performance of the other. I propose that queer oral history exists as an alternative praxis to traditional oral history; in order for this distinction to emerge, a practitioner must accept two charges. The first is a commitment to destabilizing oral history through the inclusion of other diverse methodological practices. Further, the researcher must welcome the ethical imperative to reflexively question subjectivity through their own role in constructing an oral history. Queer oral history demands of its practitioners a different set of goals that grow from traditional oral history, but also carefully complicate the practice of oral history as a methodology in order to address the in-between role of the subject-researcher. This placement within the gaps—the in-between—renders queer oral history theoretically queer, opening up possibilities beyond simply an oral history about queer themes. Because of its focus on commitments as a way to lead practice, queer oral history could prove useful for other person-based qualitative research methods. In order to propose queer oral history, this document traces one specific performance—Bless Our Hearts: An Oral History of the Queer South—from intellectual inception through scripting, staging, performance, and reperformance. Offering theoretical precepts, a completed script, and deep discussions of choices in scripting and embodiment, this dissertation offers a model that shows one queer oral history—about the intersections of queer and Southern identities—as it moves from interview process to complete performance project.
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Read, Kimberly. "Continuing the Career: An Oral History of an Emeritus Professor." Scholar Commons, 2016. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/6571.
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The purpose of this study was to describe and explain the perspectives of a professor emeritus regarding his life experiences in the discipline of chemistry and in a career dedicated to research, service and teaching. Another purpose, interwoven within the perspective of this one individual, was to explore the potential influence a professor emeritus can have on his institution, and the impact the institution, its changing culture, and its shifting priorities may have on a member of the professoriate dedicated to this chosen career path. The research guiding questions for this study were: (a) What elements of this professor emeritus’ example constitute his perspective on his life as a professor? (b) What elements in his social context contributed to this perspective? And (c) What elements in his life have detracted from this perspective? The literature reviewed for this study focused on organization theory and identity theory as a lens for understanding the perspectives of a professor emeritus. Further, the specific environment of higher education was examined including the professoriate, shared governance and changes in higher education over the last couple of decades. These topics were also explored as they converge in the life of an emeritus professor. The experiences of an emeritus professor were gathered through topical interviews in both unstructured and semi-structured formats, continuing dialog between the researcher and the participant, a researcher reflective journal, and the life artifacts and site documents related to the participant. The presentation of data for this study includes a short narrative of the history and mission of the University of South Florida as well as that of the Department of Chemistry within the College of Arts and Sciences, which is the tenure home of the participant. The data also includes biographical information on the participant, Dr. Dean Martin, and presents data that relate to Dr. Martin’s perspective regarding his career through the lens of self-identity via the theoretical concepts of social and salient identity. The data illustrate the elements that Dr. Martin believes contributed to and detracted from his perspective as an emeritus professor. The data also looks at Dr. Martin’s viewpoint on the various components of the University of South Florida’s landscape. Its environment and how it has changed … or not changed through its history. Finally, this inquiry explores the idea that can we garner ideas from Dr. Martin’s experiences that will direct current and future members of the professoriate towards an engaged and mutually beneficial path. The study presents a discussion of the intersection of personal identity and organizational affiliation. The major findings include three components that are significant in the life of this professor emeritus: a commitment to his continuing career as evidence through ongoing writing, mentoring and philanthropy; the importance of having the opportunity to have an impact in the current and future discipline of chemistry and academia, and the ever present fear of becoming obsolete.
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Brown, Connie J. "Mapping A Generation: Oral History Research in Sulphur Springs, FL." Scholar Commons, 2004. http://purl.fcla.edu/fcla/etd/SFE0000295.
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McNabb, Cheri Andrea. "Oral history: An approach to teaching limited english proficient children." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 1992. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/1054.
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Van, Luyn Ariella. "The artful life story : the oral history interview as fiction." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2012. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/60921/1/Ariella_Van_Luyn_Thesis.pdf.
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This practice-led PhD project consists of two parts. The first is an exegesis documenting how a fiction writer can enter a dialogue with the oral history project in Australia. I identify two philosophical mandates of the oral history project in Australia that have shaped my creative practice: an emphasis on the analysis of the interviewee’s subjective experience as a means of understanding the past, and the desire to engage a wide audience in order to promote empathy towards the subject. The discussion around fiction in the oral history project is in its infancy. In order to deepen the debate, I draw on the more mature discussion in ethnographic fiction. I rely on literary theorists Steven Greenblatt, Dorrit Cohn and Gerard Genette to develop a clear understanding of the distinct narrative qualities of fiction, in order to explore how fiction can re-present and explore an interviewee’s subjective experience, and engage a wide readership. I document my own methodology for producing a work of fiction that is enriched by oral history methodology and theory, and responds to the mandates of the project. I demonstrate the means by which fiction and the oral history project can enter a dialogue in the truest sense of the word: a two-way conversation that enriches and augments practice in both fields.
The second part of the PhD is a novel, set in Brisbane and based on oral history interviews and archival material I gathered over the course of the project. The novel centres on Brisbane artist Evelyn, who has been given an impossible task: a derelict old house is about to be demolished, and she must capture its history in a sculpture that will be built on the site. Evelyn struggles to come up with ideas and create the sculpture, realising that she has no way to discover who inhabited the house. What follows is a series of stories, each set in a different era in Brisbane’s history, which take the reader backwards through the house’s history. Hidden Objects is a novel about the impossibility of grasping the past and the powerful pull of storytelling.
The novel is an experiment in a hybrid form and is accompanied by an appendix that identifies the historically accurate sources informing the fiction. The decisions about the aesthetics of the novel were a direct result of my engagement with the mandates of the oral history project in Australia. The novel was shortlisted in the 2012 Queensland Literary Awards, unpublished manuscript category.
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Neufeldt, Bradley. "Cultural confusions, oral/literary narrative negotiations in Tracks and Ravensong." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp04/mq22548.pdf.
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Hermer, Carol A. "Performing our pasts : representing history, representing self /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/6426.
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Ribeiro, Claudia Caroline Robles [UNESP]. "Mulheres silenciadas: vivências de viuvez nos anos de chumbo (1970-1980)." Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/124372.
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A presente pesquisa tem como objetivo compreender práticas e representações culturais a respeito da viuvez feminina e como a viuvez compulsória institucionalizada no período da Ditadura Brasileira nos anos de 1970 a 1980 rompe com os padrões instituídos socialmente. Partindo da construção da educação feminina e os modelos pré-estipulados para os padrões exigidos as chamadas moças de família, analisamos como os papeis sociais femininos influenciaram na construção de representações estereotipadas de viuvez feminina. Trata-se de retomar o estado civil dado como naturalizado, bem como os valores atribuídos que reforçam estereótipos, que obscurecem a participação das viúvas enquanto atores sociais, relegando-as aos resmungos e representações incômodas, o que as manteve invisíveis como objetos de pesquisa. A partir da perspectiva da História Cultural, a pesquisa baseia-se na análise empírica de uma realidade, através de relatos orais de mulheres no Estado de São Paulo (oficialmente casadas ou não), que possuem vivências díspares diante da perda dos maridos/companheiros por intervenção dos órgãos de repressão. Busca ainda analisar informações que não foram devidamente analisadas pela historiografia tomando como premissa inicial a ressignificação da viuvez, dos relatos orais e análise de fontes múltiplas para considerar as distintas vivências de viúvas que, revendo papéis tradicionais, construíram novas identidades transformando-se em sujeitos de poder e protagonistas na História. A partir das distintas experiências, procuramos destacar as alterações nos rituais da morte e a influência que esses tiveram na manutenção da memória de seus maridos/companheiros. Partimos da construção de uma identidade feminina estereotipada dos manuais de boas maneiras e da educação familiar desde a infância, passando pela juventude e focando na vida adulta para compreendermos como essas mulheres...
This research aims to understand cultural practices and representations of the female widowhood and widowhood as institutionalized compulsory in the period of the Brazilian dictatorship in the years 1970 to 1980 breaks with the standards established socially. From the construction of female education and pre-stipulated models for the standards required socalled family girls, we analyze how women's social roles influenced the construction of stereotypical representations of female widowhood. This is to resume the marital status given as national as well as the assigned values that reinforce stereotypes that obscure the participation of widows as social actors, relegating them to the grumbling and uncomfortable representations, what remained invisible as research subjects. From the perspective of Cultural History, the research is based on empirical analysis of a reality through oral histories of women in the State of São Paulo (officially married or not) who have disparate experiences at the loss of their husbands / partners by intervention of the enforcement agencies. Search also analyze information that were not properly analyzed by the historiography taking as initial premise the redefinition of widowhood, oral reports and analysis from multiple sources to consider the different experiences of widows who, reviewing traditional roles, built new identities turning into subjects power and protagonists in history. From the different experiences we seek to changes in the rituals of death and the influence these have in maintaining the memory of their husbands / partners. We start with the construction of a woman from childhood through youth and focusing on adulthood to understand how these women conceived his life from the marriage and how death was breaking project plans and a family life. As official militant leftist organizations or not, these women experienced situations that limits their daily fractured and changed their IDs so...
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Duquette, Derek. "Queering Significance: What Preservationists Can Learn From How LGBTQ+Philadelphians Ascribe Significance to History Sites." Master's thesis, Temple University Libraries, 2018. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/491642.
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This thesis explores the ways in which LGBTQ+ individuals in Philadelphia ascribe significance to various places based on oral history interviews and additional primary source material collected initially for the National Park Service Northeast Regional Office’s LGBTQ+ Heritage Initiative. By examining stories from LGBTQ+ individuals of places that matter most to them in Philadelphia, this thesis argues that historic preservationists can expand their definition of significance to include personal testimony and broaden their practices to better engage the communities whose histories they seek to preserve.
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Silva, Kamillo Karol Ribeiro e. ""Nos caminhos da memÃria, nas Ãguas do Jaguaribe": memÃria das enchentes em Jaguaruana-Ce (1960, 1974, 1985)." Universidade Federal do CearÃ, 2006. http://www.teses.ufc.br/tde_busca/arquivo.php?codArquivo=387.
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FundaÃÃo de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado do CearÃEste trabalho refere-se a experiÃncia da memÃria de homens e mulheres moradores da cidade de Jaguaruana â CE sobre as enchentes ocorridas nos anos de 1960, 1974 e 1985. Trabalhando com fonte orais, jornais e documentos oficiais, procura-se ver como as cheias do Rio Jaguaribe marcaram as lembranÃas do entrevistados e a forma como estas foram contadas. Percebendo tambÃm a materialidade do ato enunciativo atravÃs da performance, busca-se um entendimento das vÃrias nuances e dos vÃrios temas apontados pelas memÃrias. O trabalho està divido em trÃs capÃtulos. O primeiro capÃtulo trÃs narrativas sobre o momento da saÃda e retorno para casa durante a enchente. No segundo capÃtulo, discute-se outros temas que figuravam nas entrevistas como as histÃrias sobre o trabalho, as doenÃas e as polÃticas pÃblicas em tempos de enchente. O terceiro capÃtulo, centra-se na necessidade de ouvir as histÃrias sobre a construÃÃo da Vila do Padre.
This work refers the experience of the men and womenâs memory residents of the city of Jaguaruana - CE on the inundations happened in the years of 1960, 1974 and 1985. Working with oral source,newspapers and official documents,tries to see her as the full of Rio Jaguaribe they marked the interviewees' memories and the form as these they were counted. Also noticing the material form of the act enunciated the performance, an understanding of the several nuances is looked for and of the several pointed themes for the memoirs. The work is I divide in three chapters. The first chapter back narratives on the moment of the exit and return home during the inundation. In the second chapter, other themes that represented in the interviews as the histories on the work, the diseases and the public politics in times of inundation is discussed. The third chapter is centered in the need of hearing the histories about the construction of the Priest's Villa.
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Jagpal, Sarjeet Singh. "An oral history of the Sikhs in British Columbia, 1920-1947." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 1991. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/31522.
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This thesis recognizes the value of using a variety of perspectives to study the history of an ethnic minority group. The history of some groups is lacking in insider perspectives. I have attempted to add balance to the existing accounts by using an oral history approach to describe the experiences of the Sikhs living in British Columbia from 1920-1947.
I am an insider, a Sikh whose grandfather was one of the original pioneers who came in the first wave of immigration in the 1904-1908 time period. These people are no longer with us, but some of their wives and children are still available to share their history with future generations. I interviewed and recorded 24 individual histories. From these I have formed a composite picture of the Sikh community in British Columbia from 1920-1947.
Beginning with descriptions of social, political and cultural conditions in India and Canada at the time of arrival, we follow them through the important stages of their lives in their adopted land. They describe the journey over, settling in, adaptations, work, social life, the fight for rights, and the role of their temple and religion. We see the events and circumstances that eventually led to the Sikhs being able to call Canada their home. The many photographs, letters and documents give further insights into the lives of this distinctive group of Canadians.Education, Faculty of
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Ellis, Jason Benjamin. "Palaver tree online : technological support for classroom integration of Oral History." Diss., Georgia Institute of Technology, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/9189.
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O'Byrne, Catherine. "Women and the British North Sea oil industry : an oral history." Thesis, University of Aberdeen, 2010. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.531894.
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This thesis shows how, and to what extent, the British offshore industry affected the lives of women in North East of Scotland from the 1970s to the start of the new millennium. It presents new evidence, in the form of oral history life story interviews, which prove the long and sustained impact that women have had upon the industry, clarifying previous misunderstandings by scholars and politicians and revealing for the first time, a chronology of women’s history offshore. This thesis remedies the fact that the history of the British North Sea oil industry has almost exclusively been portrayed from the perspective of male employees and without recourse to gender analysis. My argument is that this has impeded not only discussion of women’s historical contributions, but also critical reflection upon men’s experiences of the industry. My approach to writing the history of the British North Sea oil industry promotes and facilitates the inclusion of women’s previously unrecorded experiences. It also reinterprets many of the perceived ‘facts’ of men’s experiences. By presenting new empirical evidence and applying a gendered analysis to it this thesis makes an original contribution to scholarship and opens up an exciting field for further research.
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Guillory, Eileen. "Facing the Storm: An Oral History of Elderly Survivors of Katrina." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2008. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/677.
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This paper is drawn from oral history interviews from elderly residents who survived the Hurricane Katrina disaster in 2005. The aged faced similar challenges as their younger counterparts in the evacuation, aftermath, and rebuilding phases of the storm; however, their responses are limited by a number of factors that make the impact on their lives more intense. The majority of storm casualties in New Orleans were elderly. Those elderly who did survive the flooding experienced life-threatening physical and emotional stress. Life-altering changes, such as relocation from familiar neighborhoods to nursing homes in unfamiliar cities or a dependent life with family members, have often meant a loss of independence, a loss of community, and a loss of their sense of history. As natural storytellers, many elderly New Orleanians have important accounts to relate and oral history offers a method to preserve their narratives.
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Moss, Clive. "'Reporting without fear, or favour' : HMI 2000-2010, and oral history." Thesis, Sheffield Hallam University, 2018. http://shura.shu.ac.uk/22418/.
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This thesis contends that the methodological approaches taken in exploring education inspections in the last twenty years are largely unhistorical and result in a particular view that contrasts current school inspections unfavourably with previous approaches, as a result of the particular methodoligical stances adopted, often analysing teachers’ experiences of inspections using Foucauldian and performativity theoretical frameworks. Even studies with a more-historical bent tend to present Her Majesty’s Inspectors (HMI) as belonging more to a less-destructive golden age of ‘professional relationships’. The evidence bases for the hypotheses tend to omit, to treat as incidental, or to dismiss as misguided the views of inspectors, particularly the experiences of HMIs. The literature suggests also that the office of HMI effectively ceased to exist by the year 2000. This research set out to locate previously unavailable evidence about the work of HMIs after 2000 and to consider what that evidence revealed about the nature of the role at that time, using the method of oral history. The research looked at the experiences of a small group of former HMIs, who were active in the period 2000- 2010, through semi-structured, recorded interviews, subsequently transcribed and analysed thematically, to see what the HMIs’ recollections reveal about the prevailing debates, and to contribute to the growing body of literature about the value of oral history as a distinctive branch of historical method. The study argues that, throughout the period, HMIs operated as independently minded individuals, who sought to transcend their particular circumstances, in order to sustain a sense of the purpose and values which they considered underpinned the office. It demonstrates also that oral history evidence is as valid and useful as any other historical source, notwithstanding some distinctive contigencies and limitations associated with it.
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Tipton, Elizabeth Shelton. "Growing Up Deaf in Appalachia: An Oral History of My Mother." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2019. https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/3662.
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This study focuses on the life experiences of a rural, Deaf Appalachian woman, Jane Ann Shelton, a second generation Deaf child born to Deaf parents from the communities of Devil’s Fork (Flag Pond, Tennessee) and Shelton Laurel (Madison County, North Carolina). Over two hours of videotaped interviews were interpreted and transcribed, followed by various other communications to describe the life of a rural, Deaf Appalachian woman without a formal high school degree. As an advocate and a political lobbyist in Tennessee during the 1980s and 90s, she was unparalleled by her peers (deaf or hearing) in her efforts to “enhance the lives of ALL Deaf Tennesseans.” From these interactions and my firsthand knowledge, I crafted stories of her life experiences for the purpose of performing them for both Deaf and hearing audiences. Further studies should be done on rural Deaf Appalachia as precious little oral history has been collected.
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Sulyanto, Rosalyn. "The Natural History of Oral Bacteria Acquisition in the Developing Infant." The Ohio State University, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1374150918.
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Ligon, Mary B. "Improving Life Satisfaction of Elders through Oral History: The Narrator's Perspective." VCU Scholars Compass, 2007. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/939.
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Oral history is a method of preserving historical information through in-depth interviews. Because the process requires narrators to use remote recall while sharing their life experiences, it can also be considered a reminiscence-related activity. Before this study, the positive effects on narrators of providing an oral history were noted in the research literature but had not been evaluated through quantitative methods. Based on theoretical constructs of Erikson and Butler, it was hypothesized that participation in oral history interviews would improve the life satisfaction of narrators. Life satisfaction was operationalized and measured using the Life Satisfaction Index Version A (LSIA). The purposes of this study were to evaluate the influence of an oral history intervention on the life satisfaction of community-dwelling elders and to identify participant characteristics associated with change in life satisfaction scores.Sixty community-dwelling, older adults who were free of cognitive impairment and mental illness were recruited from agencies serving the social and recreational needs of elders in Richmond, VA. Participants were randomly assigned to an intervention group or a control group. LSIA scores were collected pretest, posttest, and again at retest, ten weeks after the intervention. Mean LSIA scores from the control and treatment groups were compared for differences at posttest and retest using an analysis of covariance (ANCOVA). Regression analysis was used to identify participant characteristics associated with improved life satisfaction at posttest and retest. Oral history interviews were conducted by Virginia Commonwealth University students enrolled in a gerontology course. Participants discussed lifetime events with students on three occasions for approximately one hour per session using a researcher-developed interview guide. No statistically significant differences in LSIA scores were found between groups at posttest (p=0.74) or retest (p=0.051) although retest scores may indicate a trend toward improvement. Lower LSIA scores at pretest were associated with positive change in LSIA scores at retest (p=5.001). These results suggest that oral history may not improve life satisfaction immediately but there may be a trend toward improvement given time and that elders least satisfied with their lives at the onset are most likely to show positive change by retest.
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Martignoni, Martina. "Postcolonial organising : an oral history of the Eritrean community in Milan." Thesis, University of Leicester, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/2381/37730.
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This thesis explores the politics of self-organising of the Eritrean community in Milan and investigates the interconnections between postcoloniality, migration, difference and organising. Postcoloniality is seen as a crucial time-space for contemporary forms of organising. I employ a postcolonial approach not only to understand the historical environment in which my research is placed but also to imagine new forms of organising that involve migrants in Europe. I approach the problem of organising by engaging with literature on diversity management and multiculturalism. Moving from a critique of these practices I look for alternative forms of organising – specifically inside social movements – and ask what the effects of bringing postcolonial critique to bear organisational practices are and what does it mean to organise in a postcolonial way. Oral history, the methodology I use, shares with postcolonial studies the attempt of deconstructing a homogenous approach to history, giving value instead to subjectivity and to radical conflicts around heterogeneity. I examine the history of the Eritrean community in Milan from the vantage point of the lives of Eritrean migrants and second generations and I argue that two interrelated activities shaped their politics: practices of self-organisation in everyday life and the diasporic organization when dealing with politics concerning Eritrea. An analysis of this interrelation brings me to discuss what self-organising looks like in postcoloniality and what is the role of difference in it. While difference has often been connected to identities, I argue that the experience of the Eritreans in Milan suggests looking at difference as defined by practices. Difference comes to be a constituent divergence that rejects relativism and comparison. By thinking the relationship between postcoloniality and organization the thesis aims to contribute to the imagination of new forms of organising among differences.
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Lacasse, Germain. "Le bonimenteur et le cinéma oral, le cinéma muet entre tradition et modernité." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp04/nq26795.pdf.
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Johnston, Glenn T. "Teenager's doing history out-of-school: An intrinsic case study of situated learning in history." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2008. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc6090/.
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This intrinsic case study documents a community-based history expedition implemented as a project-based, voluntary, out-of-school history activity. The expedition's development was informed by the National Education Association's concept of the intensive study of history, its structure by the history seminary, and its spirit by Webb's account of seminar as history expedition. Specific study objectives included documentation of the planning, implementation, operation, and outcomes of the expedition, as well as the viability of the history expedition as a vehicle for engaging teenagers in the practice of history. Finally, the study examined whether a history expedition might serve as a curriculum of identity. Constructivist philosophy and situated learning theory grounded the analysis and interpretation of the study. Undertaken in North Central Texas, the study followed the experiences of six teenagers engaged as historians who were given one year to research and write a historical monograph. The monograph concerned the last horse cavalry regiment deployed overseas as a mounted combat unit by the U.S. Army during World War II. The study yielded qualitative data in the form of researcher observations, participant interviews, artifacts of participant writing, and participant speeches. In addition, the study includes evaluations of the historical monograph by subject matter experts. The data indicate that participants and audience describe the history expedition as a highly motivational experience which empowered participants to think critically, write historically, and create an original product valuable to the regiment's veterans, the veterans' families, the State of Texas, and military historians. The study supports the contention of the National Education Association that the intensive study of history can be beneficial both to expedition participants and to their community. The assertion that engaging teenagers as researchers within a discipline serves as a curriculum of identity was supported in the study as well. The study underscored the importance of oral history as a gateway for learning about modern history.
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Zanardi, Luciana Schreiner de Oliveira [UNESP]. "As margens e as águas do rio Corumbataí: uma perspectiva de antigos moradores." Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/11449/90189.
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zanardi_lso_me_rcla.pdf: 2123790 bytes, checksum: 019431e906a2d72d709bbc82c96ab42c (MD5)Esta pesquisa foi desenvolvida na cidade de Corumbataí (SP) que fica às margens de um rio, de mesmo nome, que na prática virou um canal a céu aberto, com todas as retificações possíveis. Ao perder o rio a cidade conta uma história que necessitamos ouvir para evitar que estas se repitam. Os objetivos são: 1) Registrar o cenário histórico do povoado de Corumbataí do início do século XX e a importância das águas do rio para a constituição deste povoado; 2) Relembrar as tramas e os modelos das práticas sociais, que historicamente foram surgindo, a partir da importância do rio na formação da cidade de Corumbataí. Para realizar esta investigação nos utilizamos dos depoimentos de antigos moradores da cidade elaborados conforme os procedimentos metodológicos de pesquisas em História Oral. Com base nestas narrativas foi construído um discurso comum polifônico criando uma nova maneira de contar a história da cidade de Corumbataí e de seu rio em que palavras e imagens engendram vidas identificadas por aqueles que as viveram compondo quadros de compreensão de problemáticas sociais e ambientais narradas nesta pesquisa.
This research was developed in city of Corumbataí (SP) that it is to the border of a river, of same name, that in the practical one turned a canal the opened sky, with all the possible rectifications. When losing the river, the city says a history that we need to hear to prevent that these if repeat. The goals are: 1) To register the historical scene of the town of Corumbataí of the beginning of century XX and the importance of waters of the river for the constitution of this town; 2) To remind the practical trams and models of the social ones, that historically had been appearing, from the importance of the river in the formation of the city of Corumbataí. To carry through this inquiry in we use them of the testimony of old inhabitants of the city elaborated as the methodological procedures of research in Oral History. With base in these narratives a polyphonic common speech was constructed creating a new way to say the history of the Corumbataí city and its river where words and images produce identified lives for that they had lived them composing told social and environmental problematic pictures of understanding of in this research.