Weaving the strands: An oral history interview workshop for secondary teachers of history, modern studies and social sciences

Schools in the Highlands and Islands have the wonderful resources of their communities at hand. This workshop will look at how we can enable intergenerational communication – how we can get children speaking to older generations and gathering their stories, and how to weave them into a narrative of place, helping them to understand the lived experience of their communities, past, present and future.

This session will introduce you to the dos and don’ts of conducting oral history interviews. We will look at the three stages: preparation pre interview, the interview itself, and post interview tasks. We will work through the following topics

• Why oral history? What is it?
• Planning for an oral history interview
• The practice and ethics of informed consent
• Interviewing techniques
• Creating interview questions
• Recording tools and tips
• Preservation – working with community vs. institutional archives
• Access – how to share your story with others through creative projects

To register for this event, please email donna.heddle@uhi.ac.uk 

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