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- Title: Timeless Projects: Remembering and Voice in the History of Education (Report)
- Author : History of Education Review
- Release Date : January 01, 2008
- Genre: Education,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 223 KB
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Introduction Developments in approach to oral history have transformed scholarship in the History of Education and have sharpened focus on the relationship between past and present. Over the past four decades there has been a substantial broadening to the diversity of professional approaches in the analysis and recognition of our history. When juxtaposed alongside documentary evidence, the potential of oral narratives seemed limited and problematic to those whose logic lay embedded within the traditional archival record. Of immediate concern was the presumed unreliability of memory in the seeding of an oral context and of its supposed inability to represent the past and tell the same truth. (2) The concern for person to person transfer of information without written record seemed openly contestable, yet in many instances these were the sole sources of information and to reject them would simply leave a blank pallet in the repertoire of history. In societies such as Australia, Canada and New Zealand, as Miranda Johnson points out, where Indigenous oral histories have gained legitimacy in native land and resource claims, for example, such concerns have become 'more than academic'. (3)