Event Title
Oral History As Service-Learning: Uniting People, Academics, and Methods in Teacher Education
Location
Library 3D
Session
Session 4
Start Date
12-4-2013 1:15 PM
End Date
12-4-2013 2:15 PM
Description
Oral history is employed as a pedagogical method for integrating language arts (writing) with social studies (history) and involves teacher candidates in an authentic service-learning experience. An assignment for teacher candidates in a senior-level interdisciplinary methods course is an oral history of persons who have first-hand experience (primary sources) of a notable historical era or event. Teacher candidates participate, as students, in the project that they can eventually use with their own students in elementary schools. For more than ten years, oral histories have been compiled and preserved in the university’s Louisiana Archives. Most stories feature women on the home front during World War, but in recent years candidates have interviewed war veterans, older generations of teachers, witnesses of the civil rights era, and others who are significant to candidates.
Oral History As Service-Learning: Uniting People, Academics, and Methods in Teacher Education
Library 3D
Oral history is employed as a pedagogical method for integrating language arts (writing) with social studies (history) and involves teacher candidates in an authentic service-learning experience. An assignment for teacher candidates in a senior-level interdisciplinary methods course is an oral history of persons who have first-hand experience (primary sources) of a notable historical era or event. Teacher candidates participate, as students, in the project that they can eventually use with their own students in elementary schools. For more than ten years, oral histories have been compiled and preserved in the university’s Louisiana Archives. Most stories feature women on the home front during World War, but in recent years candidates have interviewed war veterans, older generations of teachers, witnesses of the civil rights era, and others who are significant to candidates.