A Field Notebook For Oral History

Download or read book A Field Notebook for Oral History written by Stacy Erickson and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 1996-02 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents, in simple outline form, basic information about the oral history process. A step-by-step outline to procedures, techniques, problems and organizational methods which have proved most useful. Primarily directed towards those who have no experience with oral history. Covers: the interview (research, framing questions, indexing, etc.), technical issues (equipment, and preservation of the audio tape), planning a project (goal setting, project organization, funding), oral history in education, professional organizations, sample forms, and bibliography.

Download or read book Oral History Off the Record written by A. Sheftel and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-09-11 with total page 533 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Because oral history interviews are personal interactions between human beings, they rarely conform to a methodological ideal. These reflections from oral historians provide honest and rigorous analyses of actual oral history practice that address the complexities of a human-centered methodology.

Download or read book The Oral History Manual written by Barbara W. Sommer and published by Rowman Altamira. This book was released on 2009 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Guides readers through the process of doing oral history.

Download or read book A Guide to Oral History and the Law written by John A. Neuenschwander and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2014 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text covers legal release agreements; protecting sealed interviews and anonymous interviews from courtroom disclosure; defamation; copyright; the Internet; Institutional Review Boards (IRBs), oral history as evidence; the duty to report a crime; and teaching considerations.

Download or read book The SAGE Dictionary of Qualitative Inquiry written by Thomas A. Schwandt and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 2014-12-19 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this Fourth Edition of The SAGE Dictionary of Qualitative Inquiry Thomas A. Schwandt provides a guide to the terms and phrases that help shape the origins, purpose, logic, meaning, and methods of the practices known as qualitative inquiry. This edition features 20 additional terms as well as a restructured Reader’s Guide. Key references have been updated and select terms and phrases from previous editions have been reorganized and greatly expanded. Together, the dictionary entries provide a guide to the methodological and epistemological concepts and theoretical orientations of qualitative inquiry. This one-of-a-kind resource is ideal for readers who are navigating various perspectives on qualitative inquiry, working on a qualitative dissertation, or are launching their own investigations into the issues covered.

Download or read book Oral History, Community, and Displacement written by S. Field and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-02-14 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book uses oral history methodology to record stories of people who experienced the brunt of racist forced removals in the city of Cape Town, South Africa. Through life stories and community case studies, it traces the human impact of this disruptive, often violent feature of apartheid's social engineering.

Download or read book Oral History for the Qualitative Researcher written by Valerie J. Janesick and published by Guilford Press. This book was released on 2010-03-18 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Oral history is a particularly useful way to capture ordinary people's lived experiences. This innovative book introduces the full array of oral history research methods and invites students and qualitative researchers to try them out in their own work. Using choreography as an organizing metaphor, the author presents creative strategies for collecting, representing, analyzing, and interpreting oral history data. Instructive exercises and activities help readers develop specific skills, such as nonparticipant observation, interviewing, and writing, with a special section on creating found data poems from interview transcripts. Also covered are uses of journals, court transcripts, and other documents; Internet resources, such as social networking sites; and photography and video. Emphasizing a social justice perspective, the book includes excerpts of oral histories from 9/11 and Hurricane Katrina, among other detailed case examples.