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Oral history as a dialogue with the Polish-Jewish past of a local community from the perspective of social pedagogy
Abstract
The article is a part of the author’s broader project researching multicultural education in Poland. It presents oral history as a form of social activity which can help partly reconstruct the memory of the Polish-Jewish past and reinforce the re-building of the formerly multicultural identity of local communities. Oral history is analysed here within the theoretical and methodological framework of social pedagogy. The paper also presents the efforts aiming at introducing oral history into the educational activities of the Grodzka Gate – NN Theatre Centre in Lublin, a local cultural institution which focuses on the history and heritage of the city’s local community by restoring and re-reading its Polish-Jewish past.
Abstract
The article is a part of the author’s broader project researching multicultural education in Poland. It presents oral history as a form of social activity which can help partly reconstruct the memory of the Polish-Jewish past and reinforce the re-building of the formerly multicultural identity of local communities. Oral history is analysed here within the theoretical and methodological framework of social pedagogy. The paper also presents the efforts aiming at introducing oral history into the educational activities of the Grodzka Gate – NN Theatre Centre in Lublin, a local cultural institution which focuses on the history and heritage of the city’s local community by restoring and re-reading its Polish-Jewish past.
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- List of editors and contributors vii
- Foreword ix
- From the editors xi
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Section 1. Fieldwork challenges
- Trust in the empathic interview 3
- Oral historian: Neither moralizer nor informer 15
- Memorable belongings 27
- Oral history & e-research: Collecting memories of the 1960´s and 1970´s youth culture 35
- Oral history and political elites: Interviewing (and transcribing) lobbyists 47
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Section 2. Doing gender
- Doing gender within oral history 63
- The dialogues in-between: A phenomenological perspective on women's oral history interviews 77
- The problems of articulating beingness in women's oral histories 87
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Section 3. Behind and beyond the stories
- Conversations with survivors of the siege of Leningrad: Between myth and history 101
- Women soldiers and women prisoners: Oral testimonies of Ruta Czaplińska and Elżbieta Zawacka 115
- 'The stranger within my Gate': Irish emigrant narratives of exile, tradition and modernity in post-war Britain 129
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Section 4. Public space challenges
- Painting in sound: Aural history and audio art 147
- Oral history as a dialogue with the Polish-Jewish past of a local community from the perspective of social pedagogy 169
- Sharing oral history with the wider public: Experiences of the Refugee Communities History Project 179
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Section 5. Story - oral history - historiography
- The ethics of oral history: Expectations, responsibilities, and dissociations 195
- Life story interviews and the "Truth of Memory": Some aspects of oral history from a historico-philosophical perspective 205
- Index 217
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- List of editors and contributors vii
- Foreword ix
- From the editors xi
-
Section 1. Fieldwork challenges
- Trust in the empathic interview 3
- Oral historian: Neither moralizer nor informer 15
- Memorable belongings 27
- Oral history & e-research: Collecting memories of the 1960´s and 1970´s youth culture 35
- Oral history and political elites: Interviewing (and transcribing) lobbyists 47
-
Section 2. Doing gender
- Doing gender within oral history 63
- The dialogues in-between: A phenomenological perspective on women's oral history interviews 77
- The problems of articulating beingness in women's oral histories 87
-
Section 3. Behind and beyond the stories
- Conversations with survivors of the siege of Leningrad: Between myth and history 101
- Women soldiers and women prisoners: Oral testimonies of Ruta Czaplińska and Elżbieta Zawacka 115
- 'The stranger within my Gate': Irish emigrant narratives of exile, tradition and modernity in post-war Britain 129
-
Section 4. Public space challenges
- Painting in sound: Aural history and audio art 147
- Oral history as a dialogue with the Polish-Jewish past of a local community from the perspective of social pedagogy 169
- Sharing oral history with the wider public: Experiences of the Refugee Communities History Project 179
-
Section 5. Story - oral history - historiography
- The ethics of oral history: Expectations, responsibilities, and dissociations 195
- Life story interviews and the "Truth of Memory": Some aspects of oral history from a historico-philosophical perspective 205
- Index 217