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Download full textSiler, Carl R. – 1996
This digest addresses the uses of oral history projects in the secondary U.S. history classroom. The document advocates that oral history is a stimulating classroom process designed to increase student involvement in a United States history class and improve student understanding of a relatively recent historical period. Oral history also involves…
Descriptors: Cultural Education, Family History, Folk Culture, Inquiry
PDF pending restorationSiler, Carl R. – 1994
"Muncie Remembers That Day in Dallas" is an oral history project report of a study conducted by two academic U.S. history classes of 21 students at Muncie Southside High School (Indiana) during the 1993-94 school year. The occasion of the 30th anniversary of the assassination of President Kennedy, along with the movie "JFK,"…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Discovery Learning, Interviews, Local History
