Sunday 14 September 2014

Oral Histories


I sort of read (flicked through) this book after coming across it in Didsbury library. It got me thinking about how, or if, animation and drawing could be used in the process of collecting stories and in oral history interviews. Especially when there is a language difference.

The Oral History Reader
Edited by Robert Perks and Alistair Thomson, Routledge 2006
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Oral-History-Reader-Routledge-Readers/dp/0415343038

Postscript:
I have been using this process a lot in my teaching. Drawing, diagrams, explanations in pencil. I'll post examples below.