Oral history in researching socialist education in the Czech
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Oral history in researching socialist education in the Czech Republic

ZOUNEK, Jiří, Michal ŠIMÁNĚ and Dana KNOTOVÁ

Basic information

Original name

Oral history in researching socialist education in the Czech Republic

Authors

ZOUNEK, Jiří (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution), Michal ŠIMÁNĚ (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution) and Dana KNOTOVÁ (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution)

Edition

Oral history in Central-Eastern Europe: Current research areas, challenges and specificity, University of Lodz, 17-18 September, 2015, Lodz, Poland, 2015

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Prezentace na konferencích

Field of Study

50300 5.3 Education

Country of publisher

Poland

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

RIV identification code

RIV/00216224:14210/15:00081055

Organization unit

Faculty of Arts

Keywords in English

oral history; life story; archival resources; normalization; socialist education

Abstract

V originále

The paper focuses on one of the new methodological areas, namely the use of oral history in researching socialist education in the Czech Republic. The authors will present the potential uses of oral history and will discuss links to other methods and approaches (life story, visual history). Methodological issues are among the key topics of the research project called Everyday life of basic schools in the normalization period as seen by teachers. Applying oral history of research in history of contemporary education (no. 14-05926S, supported by the Czech Science Foundation) being undertaken by the authors of this paper. The authors of this paper also work with archival resources. The paper will, for this reason, put special emphasis on availability of resources relevant to socialist education – in which the archives abound, a fact of key importance for research in this topic. The authors have established by research that archival resources covering the recent period have not been processed yet and are, in consequence, not available in practice. Oral history then provides one of the few opportunities to explore socialist schooling. This is why it is not only necessary to develop the method as such (considering specifics of education research) but also to employ knowledge obtained through qualitative education research. The authors will present some methodological inspirations and document them using examples from their original research.

Links

GA14-05926S, research and development project

Name: Každodenní život základní školy v období normalizace pohledem učitelů. Využití orální historie při studiu soudobých dějin školství

Investor: Czech Science Foundation

Citovat

ZOUNEK, Jiří, Michal ŠIMÁNĚ and Dana KNOTOVÁ. Oral history in researching socialist education in the Czech Republic. In Oral history in Central-Eastern Europe: Current research areas, challenges and specificity, University of Lodz, 17-18 September, 2015, Lodz, Poland. 2015.

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ZOUNEK, Jiří, Michal ŠIMÁNĚ and Dana KNOTOVÁ. Oral history in researching socialist education in the Czech Republic. In \textit{Oral history in Central-Eastern Europe: Current research areas, challenges and specificity, University of Lodz, 17-18 September, 2015, Lodz, Poland}. 2015.

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