Testimony as Oral History

Lessons from South Africa

Datos Bibliográficos

ID9733862
AutoresAlan Wieder (The College of Education at the University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC 29208, His research interests include race and education and he has been working on an oral history project in South Africa for the last five years, autor de correspondencia)
Año2004
Volumen33
Número6
Páginas23-28
Fecha de publicación2004-08-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaEducational Researcher (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0013-189X • E-ISSN: 1935-102X
EditorialAmerican Educational Research Association (AERA) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.3102/0013189x033006023
OpenAlexW1999327079
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas6
Referencias citadas15

he hearings of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) and subsequent oral history projects elevated testimony as part of the South African transformation process. In this article, I argue that testimony as oral history is important as a public forum for people who have been historically invisible. In addition, two themes of testimony as oral history enhance our understanding of method and meaning in this type of research: (a) analyzing insider/outsider oral history not as binary but rather as a changing, living process, and (b) defining the divide between rapport and trust with the former as a research tool and the latter as a

Commission · Comparative historical research · Epistemology · Insider · Meaning (existential · Media studies · Oral history · Political science · Public history · Social science · Sociology · Anthropology · History · Law · Oral History, Memory, Narrative Analysis · Philosophy · Qualitative Research Methods and Ethics · South African History and Culture