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Unit II
Fieldwork Basics
Resources
Find helpful fieldwork
resources below.
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.
Making Connections Lesson on How to Conduct and
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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