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Unit II
Fieldwork Basics
Resources
Find helpful
fieldwork resources below. Resources marked with an asterisk
(*) are available from the CARTS Catalog,
800/333-5982, ordering available online.
- Dunaway, David
and Willa Baum. Oral History: An Interdisciplinary Anthology. Alta
Mira Publications, 1996.
- Foxfire.
The Georgia-based institute has dozens of publications by students
and teachers. Contact the Foxfire Fund, Inc., P.O. Box 541, Mountain
City, GA 30562, 706/746-5828.
- "H-Oral
Hist,"
a joint project of Oral History Association, National Endowment
for the Humanities, and H-Net.
- Howard, Diane W. Folkwriting: Lessons about Place, Heritage and Tradition. Curriculum workbook is geared toward Georgia standards and its core curriculum for language arts and social studies. The workbook has lessons for all grade levels, each with an interview component. Softcover copy with three-hole punch and CD also available from Laurie Sommers, South Georgia Folklife Project, 1500 N. Patterson, Valdosta, GA 31698, 229-293-3610, or lsommers@valdosta.edu. Also available online at: www.valdosta.edu/folkwriting.
INTECH Lesson on Conducting an Interview
- Jackson,
Bruce. Fieldwork. University of Illinois Press, 1987.
A classic text on folklore and oral history fieldwork.
- Library of Congress. Folklife
and Fieldwork: A Layman's Introduction to Field Techniques. American Folklife
Center, Library of Congress, 1990, 2002. A basic, accessible guide
to developing collection projects with sample forms. Order from the Center, Library
of Congress, Washington, DC 20540, 202/707-5510, (email folklife@loc.gov) single copies free,
postage on bulk orders, or free on the Internet.
- Matthews-DeNatale,
Gail and Don Patterson. Learning from Your Community: Folklore
and Video in the Schools. South Carolina Arts Commission,
Folk Arts Program, 1991. This guide for grades 4-8 provides a
sequence of classroom lessons that help students make videos
about local culture and connect their life experiences and "history."
It is based upon a folklorist's and a videographer's work with
South Carolina students on the effects of Hurricane Hugo. Offers
good tips about student collection and video projects, $12.
- Montana
Heritage Project website offers examples of student products,
the interviewing process, and lots of community documentation
ideas.
Oral History Association
Oral History of Rhode Island Women During World War II
- Roadside Theater. You and
Your Community's Story. nd. A booklet on the importance of oral traditions, how to facilitate a story circle, what types of stories might be collected, how to do interviews and transcriptions, and how to share the collected material. Roadside Theater, 91 Madison Ave., Whitesburg, KY 41858, 606/633-0108, or email roadside@appalshop.org,
$3 + $1 shipping.
- Rogovin Paula. Classroom Interviews:
A World of Learning. Heinemann Press, 1998. Expert help on finding people, inquiry-based
curriculum, and making choices about how to use interviewing, $20.*
- Simons,
Elizabeth. Student Worlds, Student Words: Teaching Writing
Through Folklore. Heinemann, 1990. A teacher and folklorist,
Simons offers background and detailed lesson plans for writing
and folklore studies, including games and play, family folklore.
Invaluable resource for all disciplines and grade levels.
If you can afford only one book, this is it, $23.*
- Smithsonian
Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage.
Discovering Our Delta: A Learning Guide for Community Research, 2000.
An educational kit with a student guide, a teacher guide, and a 26-minute video that follows
five students from the Mississippi Delta as they conduct research on their communities, $30. Both guides are available free online
- Sunstein, Bonnie and Elizabeth Chiseri-Strater. FieldWorking: Reading
and Writing Research. Prentice Hall, 1997, 2002. This teacher resource
provides excellent exercises to aid students' fieldwork, observation,
and writing skills. Good extension of Elizabeth Simons' Student
Worlds, Student Words, $25.*
-
Talking History. Talking History is now a production, distribution, and
instructional center for all forms of "aural" history! Besides a weekly radio
program, academic and media specialists affiliated with the center now offer radio production
and oral history courses and workshops.
- Taylor,
David. Documenting Maritime Folklife: An Introductory Guide.
American Folklife Center, Library of Congress, 1993. Detailed
fieldwork guide for maritime regions available from the Center,
Library of Congress, Washington, DC 20540, 202/707-5510 (email folklife@loc.gov), $10, or
free online.
- Toelken,
Barre. The Dynamics of Folklore. Utah State University
Press, 1996. A good general college text useful for teachers
and older students.
Unit II Outline
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