Sentences with phrase «through oral history»

In the Rio Grande Valley of rural Texas, where half the students at Edcouch - Elsa High School are children of migrant farm laborers, kids are reclaiming their heritage through oral histories, compiling a local business directory, and producing a monthly civic - affairs newsletter in Spanish and English.
Students investigate the voices and representation of those who identify as mixed - heritage individuals through oral histories, archival primary sources, popular culture references, and contextualizing secondary sources.
Brittany was an isolated coastal region of France that has maintained their culture through oral histories and storytelling.

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In a 2016 paper Gauvreau said other oral histories could be further legitimized through archaeological digs.
Either way, consider this an oral history of lessons learned, passed on to you through this book.
Technical details pursued through books could not be similarly pursued in an oral presentation, but the minister may be surprised at the mental ability of his people to chase an idea through paradoxes, dilemmas, myths, history, and dramatic narratives if the movement of the chase corresponds to the way they think through the issues of daily life.
It was through these the oral traditions of the Madiga history were carried on from generation to generation.
Indeed, the best historical and conceptual work currently being carried out in South Africa, Palestine, and elsewhere on revolutionaries and revolutionary movements of the 1960s through 1980s is being retrieved via oral histories of old cadres.
WBFO has partnered with the oral history organization to host the visit, which continues through October 7.
Without using written languages, Australian tribes passed memories of life before, and during, post-glacial shoreline inundations through hundreds of generations as high - fidelity oral history.
Practitioners, trainers, coaches and others often assess these muscles through observation (watching a person walk or run), an oral history (such as asking, «what movement is most and least painful»), and muscle testing (simple biofeedback).
The four - part series, hosted by Harvard's Henry Louis Gates, Jr., examines the genalogy, oral history, family stories, and DNA analysis to trace the lineage through American history and back to Africa.
Perhaps most important was that while students were deeply engaged in the content and invested in creating the final product, they were also developing historical thinking skills, exploring Europe's history through a critical lens, applying their reading comprehension skills to difficult non-fiction and historical fiction, interpreting primary sources, writing in a number of genres, and developing their oral language abilities.
Giving students opportunities to record oral histories through projects like «The Great Thanksgiving Listen» exposes them to diverse perspectives and helps develop digital, planning, speaking, and listening skills.
Collecting oral histories, or documenting the experiences of people who have lived through a particular aspect of history, allows students to see themselves as storytellers and historians.
«I think they're appropriate from the earliest levels all the way up through college,» says William Scott, a former middle school teacher who taught oral histories in his Los Angeles and San Francisco classrooms.
I was reminded of the «yet sensibility» as I read through one of my student's oral history projects last year in which she interviewed a Rosie the Riveter from World War II.
Lawrence - Lightfoot's experience with oral history and family narratives through her book, Balm in Gilead: Journey of a Heale, became one of the topics in the documentary.
During this time, he conducted research on the history of Michigan's vibrant nonprofit and philanthropic infrastructure through archiving and examining a large number of historical documents in addition to a collection of oral history interviews.
Long - Term Relationships draws on archival records and oral histories to trace the first three decades of nationally - representative longitudinal data through a history of its first three datasets: Project Talent, the National Longitudinal Survey of 1972, and High School and Beyond.
Make history resonate with your students and bring textbooks to life through examining Museum artifacts, primary sources, and oral histories.
As a solution, she suggests that teachers and students should consider themselves researchers who expose the flaws of existing curricular materials and generate their own materials through archival research, oral histories, cultural exchanges, and visits to multicultural communities and institutions.
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American Libraries presented Dave Isay, founder of StoryCorps, a nonprofit oral history project that honors and celebrates the lives of everyday people through listening.
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The show examines personal and political representations of LGBTQ lives through manuscripts, printed materials and oral history recordings, tracing social and legislative changes in Britain from the 1895 trial of Oscar Wilde to the controversial «Alan Turing law» posthumous pardoning of historical homosexual «offences» this year.
Fernández will engage in weekly performative lectures on the various subjects that build this archive, expanding her artistic investigations of these stories from objects to oral histories and thereby developing an emerging sphere of its expression through language and performance.
Through the use of photographic archives, oral history, and contemporary photographs, Houston Cofield retraces both the imagined and real landscapes around Sardis Lake.
«Connecting Through Story: Lives Lived Apart» is the result of an oral history and photography project connecting Pennsylvanians with and without intellectual disabilities.
This has included finding the founding members of the Guerrilla Girls through the secret network, flying to meet them, photographing them, recording their oral histories and archiving their story, researching their alias, assembling the alias» works, and creating artworks from the combination of all these elements to spin a red thread that runs through ancient time to now, and into the future.
Ruznic's paintings feel fresh, as if the viewer glanced in the mud and they suddenly materialized, but their content has existed for centuries — oral history passed down through time in dyed pictograms on ceremonially burned fabrics.
At the University of Houston, art history students are encouraged to develop fully their skills in the critical analysis of art and visual culture, and to communicate their insights effectively through writing and oral discourse.
I also appreciate the contributions of Richard Cándida Smith and his team at the Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley, for guiding me through our early interview with David White, and for imparting model interview practices.
A personal story told through the eyes of director and writer Amanda Strong, as she connects the oral and written history of her family as well as the history of the Michif (Métis), Cree and Anishinaabe people and their cultural ties to the buffalo.
Sabba S. Elahi weaves through records of time — family photographs, oral histories, and the fractures of personal and institutional memory.
In addition to these programs, visitors are provided the opportunity to preserve and share their personal stories of the AIDS crisis through a partnership with StoryCorps, an organization dedicated to recording and preserving oral histories across America.
Throughout the exhibition's run, visitors will be encouraged to preserve and share their personal recollections of the AIDS crisis and of friends and loved ones lost to the epidemic through a partnership with StoryCorps, an organization dedicated to recording and preserving oral histories across America.
I worked as media officer at the Human Rights Media Centre in Cape Town though my studies and through the work was exposed to the importance of oral history, particularly to highlight the grassroots voices often discounted by the grand narrative of history.
From introducing a new mezcal he has been creating in recent months to revisiting the infamous Salon Aleman bar he ran in Berlin through an intimate series of «tequila oral histories,» to reactivating an expedition company he formed years ago in order to search for the lost treasure of Mexican Revolutionary Pancho Villa, the exhibition will take viewers into the worlds that Sarabia has brought into being through his practice.
Lydia continues to manage production for artist Brandan «Bmike» Odums, including his first solo exhibition «Ephemeral Eternal» at Studio Be and, in collaboration with Welcome Table New Orleans, the Algiers Oral History and Public Art Intensive through which 24 high school youth are creating a freestanding mural based on interviews they conduct with elders on the evolution of race relations.
He is featured in the artist oral history project at the Smithsonian's Archives of American Art and his book for UC Press, After Silence: A History of AIDS Through Its Images is due out in Novembehistory project at the Smithsonian's Archives of American Art and his book for UC Press, After Silence: A History of AIDS Through Its Images is due out in NovembeHistory of AIDS Through Its Images is due out in November 2017.
[2] What she is referring to is the space whereby we rely on the action of one another in order to have a narrative of ourselves, whether through portraiture, written word or oral histories.
Her work seeks to capture and celebrate the lives of local people through both photography and oral history, focusing on what makes and bonds communities.
Through correspondence, papers, drawings and sculptures, drawn from our own archive and other collections (as well as oral history accounts) this exhibition explores these artists» various connections with Moore.
Through newly discovered photographs, archival footage, new oral histories, musical recordings, and related objects, «City of Hope» explores The Poor People's Campaign, a racially and ethnically diverse, national movement initiated by King and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference in 1968.
Yee I - Lann and Ise are Artists - in - Residence who have a material based approach through the use of photography, drawing, printing and food in their work and use research methods of oral history and storytelling in their gathering of material.
Katherine's work often focuses on documenting communities through photography and oral history, exploring what community means to different people.
«An immersive and enthralling journey through the Sonoran Desert on the U.S. - Mexico border, EL MAR LA MAR weaves together harrowing oral histories of intense, mythic experiences in the desert with hand - processed 16 mm images -LSB-...]
The Foundation works in conjunction with NCRA to support court reporting students, both through the NCRA student membership oral history transcription program and various scholarships awarded annually to aspiring students and new professional court reporters.
¥ Exceptional knowledge of art concepts and theories ¥ Strong familiarity with various artists and artistic methods ¥ In - depth knowledge of art history especially the 18th through 20th centuries ¥ Excellent ability to perform multiple tasks efficiently ¥ Very good written and oral communications abilities ¥ Astute observational skills
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