Under Storytelling’s Spell? Oral History in a Neoliberal Age

Freund, Alexander

doi:10.1093/ohr/ohv002

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“…More than to simply promote students' historical thinking skills, the goal of the recently increasing use of the oral history approach in schools (e.g., Boyd et al, 2015;Goald & Gradowski, 2014) and in social life (e.g., Shopes, 2015) is to More Fun-Less Learned: Oral History in History Lessons motivate students by getting them to work like a historian (e.g., Lanman & Wendling, 2006a;Whitman, 2011), create an emotional involvement (Plato & Burley, 2009), or impress the students with the eyewitnesses' ''aura of authenticity'' (Sabrow, 2012, p. 27). Oral history use also tends to be connected with digital technologies and the new social phenomenon of storytelling (Freund, 2015).…”

Section: Experiencing History In the Present: Opportunities And Challmentioning

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Learning Historical Thinking With Oral History Interviews: A Cluster Randomized Controlled Intervention Study of Oral History Interviews in History Lessons

Bertram

Wagner

Trautwein

2017

American Educational Research Journal

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The present study examined the effectiveness of the oral history approach with respect to students' historical competence. A total of 35 ninth-grade classes (N = 900) in Germany were randomly assigned to one of four conditions-live, video, text, or a (nontreated) control group-in a pretest, posttest, and follow-up design. Comparing the three intervention groups with the control group, the intervention groups scored better on four of the five achievement tests. Comparing the live group with the video and text groups, students in the live condition were more convinced of their learning progress at both measurement points. However, they scored lower than the video/text group on two achievement measures and higher on one at the posttest.

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Section: Experiencing History In the Present: Opportunities And Challmentioning

confidence: 99%

Learning Historical Thinking With Oral History Interviews: A Cluster Randomized Controlled Intervention Study of Oral History Interviews in History Lessons

Bertram

Wagner

Trautwein

2017

American Educational Research Journal

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“…The rest of the team annotated the portraits, and all authors discussed and refined their interpretations. Cognizant of the sometimes atomizing effect of portraiture (Freund, 2015), we intentionally looked across the portraits and invite readers to do the same.…”

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Portraits of Protest in Florida: How Opt-Out Makes the Personal Political

Currin

Schroeder

McCardle

2021

Teachers College Record: The Voice of Scholarship in Education

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Background/Context Opting out of high-stakes standardized tests, a phenomenon so widespread in the United States as to be regarded as a movement, is nevertheless a misunderstood and often maligned force in educational politics. Purpose This article offers a counternarrative of opt-out activism—a more thorough and vivid account of what we view as an unfairly maligned movement with tremendous potential for improving and preserving our nation's schools. Participants In-depth portraits introduce three members of the Opt Out Florida Network: Cindy Hamilton, an unabashed leader whose children have graduated; Sandy Stenoff, her partner in protest whose children remain in the system; and Susan Bowles, who grapples with conflicting roles of pedagogue and protester. Research Design As a critical ethnography, this study uses a qualitative approach to expose and challenge the unjust treatment of the opt-out movement, guided by the following research questions: 1) How do opt-out activists understand and explain their journeys to activism? 2) What experiences, concerns, and commitments guide them in their daily fight against high-stakes standardized testing? Data Collection and Analysis Using transcript data from focus group and 1-on-1 follow-up phone interviews, the research team composed and analyzed narrative portraits, which offer models of resistance to neoliberal education reform. Conclusions Contrary to their portrayal as passive, anti-test, anti-accountability parents solely focused on their own children, the opt-out movement is an active community of highly informed individuals dedicated to effecting positive change in education. The nuance of narrative captures the messy realities of activism, illustrating how parents and teachers must work together, guided by a view of citizenship as shared fate, to fight for more equitable and educative schools.

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“…У 2015 р. О. Фрои нд випускає чи не наи критичнішу статтю в науковому напрямі. Учении вважає, що усна історія демократизує історію, робить ї ї більш інклюзивною, «руи нує бар'єр між вежею зі слонової кістки та громадою» (Freund, 2015). Попри це величезнии онлаи н та офлаи н, комерціи нии та некомерціи нии ринок усної оповіді узвичаї в розповідання історіи як загальноприи нятного методу в терапії , освіті, управлінні, бізнесі, рекламі, музиці, кіно.…”

Section: дискусійні аспекти міждисциплінарної взаємодії журналістики ...unclassified

“…Разом із тим розповідь стала багатомільярдною галуззю, що паразитує на «магічному ореолі» бажання людеи отримати «ефективне, потужне вирішення всіх видів індивідуальних, соціальних та економічних проблем» і охоплює державні та неурядові агенції , приватну економіку и усі рівні освіти. Першопричину автор вбачає в грубому гіперіндивідуалізмі, що «має тенденцію атомізувати суспільство, пропонуючи оповідача як головного героя», та одержимість суспільства емоціями, виживанням, травмами, спогадами, зростанням позитивного мислення та руху самодопомоги (Freund, 2015). Обережно, але не менш стурбовано долучається до дискусії С. Хаи .…”

Section: дискусійні аспекти міждисциплінарної взаємодії журналістики ...unclassified

Discussion aspects of interdisciplinary interaction of journalism and oral history

Hudoshnyk

Тemchenko

2022

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The article presents the context of modern scientific debates on the boundaries of interdisciplinarity. The subject of the study is the common procedure of the use of oral history practices in the mass media space. The oral history itself is changing rapidly under the pressure of digital platforms such as StoryCorps (USA), Listening Project (UK), The Story Project (Australia), and The Tale of a Town (Canada). Another key thing is the fact that the changes affected not only the technological process of archiving and dissemination of information but also the basic foundations of oral history, which is its methodology. The in-depth interview is replaced by the “rapid response collecting” method and historical storytelling. The purpose of the article is to outline the discussion field of the modern scientific discourse of the problem, to present the most significant interdisciplinary interaction using the example of world and Ukrainian media, namely: coverage of contradictory and ambiguous interpretations of historical facts; narrative; prolonged communication; multimedia and multiplatform. The research methods are traditional empirical methods of observation and description, as well as paradigmatic analysis of the functional features of oral history practices in journalism. Results of the research. Basic characterological directions proposed in the study allowed us to present the main points of discussion in various aspects: the use of oral historical materials, especially “hidden history” through the eyes of eyewitnesses, become an additional source of journalistic clarifications, investigations and expansion of the information agenda; addressing marginal themes of history, giving a voice to terrorist groups and participants in genocides poses extremely complex and ethically controversial questions to the audience; multimedia and multiplatform give new life to oral history information, while performance, theatre and participation are added to the usual practices of new media. The most expressive manifestation of changes in this interdisciplinary discourse is the practice of digital storytelling; its media use is illustrated by the BBC’s Capture Wales digital storytelling project. As part of the scientific discussion that has continued for the last few years, the issues of democratization of history, mass inclusion in digital archives, the creation of powerful social projects, and attempts to distance oral history as a separate discipline have been actualized. Moreover, it is recognized that, like any creative practice, interdisciplinarity remains a wide field for experimentation and creativity.

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Under Storytelling’s Spell? Oral History in a Neoliberal Age

Cited by 37 publications

References 34 publications

Learning Historical Thinking With Oral History Interviews: A Cluster Randomized Controlled Intervention Study of Oral History Interviews in History Lessons

Learning Historical Thinking With Oral History Interviews: A Cluster Randomized Controlled Intervention Study of Oral History Interviews in History Lessons

Portraits of Protest in Florida: How Opt-Out Makes the Personal Political

Discussion aspects of interdisciplinary interaction of journalism and oral history

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