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Oral History Lessons Outline, Laura Tanenbaum
Oral History Lessons Outline, Laura Tanenbaum
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This lesson plan was developed to integrate oral history practice into an introductory composition class at LaGuardia Community College, in collaboration with the Oral History Seminar of LaGuardia's Center for Teaching and Learning in the Spring of 2024.
Wampanoag Culture Keepers Oral History Archive, Majel Peters
Wampanoag Culture Keepers Oral History Archive, Majel Peters
Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects
The Wampanoag Culture Keepers Society (WCKS) is a group of Wampanoag Elders with five core members representing three Wampanoag tribes. The Society was founded in early 2023 with a goal of documenting and providing access to traditional Wampanoag knowledge held by its members as a means of ensuring its sustained preservation and practice for generations to come. Rooted in community archival practice, The Wampanoag Culture Keepers Oral History Archive project is offered and functions in support of the Elders’ work. While recognizing the shortcomings of digital archival tools in relation to traditional knowledge sharing practices, this project seeks to render …
Intergenerational Practices Oral History Project, Christine Marks
Intergenerational Practices Oral History Project, Christine Marks
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In this multi-lesson segment, we developed an oral history project on intergenerational practices. We began the semester by framing writing as a conversation to emphasize the dialogical nature of all writing. To prepare students for the practice of deep listening, we discussed an excerpt from Danielle Ofri’s What Patients Say, What Doctors Hear, which highlights the role of the listener as co-creator of meaning. We also discussed the chapter “practice” from Alexis Pauline Gumbs’ Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals, Yiyun Li’s short personal essay “Orange Crush,” and Lily LaMotte and Ann Xu’s graphic novel Measuring Up to …