Remembering Social Change: Education, Collaboration, Transformation

Session Submission Type: Panel

Abstract

These four papers revolve around educational environments and the value of oral history in capturing and conveying histories of social change. In the oral histories examined here--from Algeria, Pakistan, Cyprus and Latin America--voices hushed by colonialism or by gender, ethnic and religious oppression retain the power to speak. Within educational institutions, narrators, students and teachers use oral history to capture and understand hidden histories of resistance

Sub Unit

• OHA Annual Meeting

Individual Presentations

• Remembering Education: Well-streaming Resistance - Khadidja Arfi, University of Florida

• Oral Histories in Cypriot Classrooms: Memory, Reconciliation and Divided Communities - John W Higgins, University of San Francisco

• Radicalizing the Classroom: Latin American Testimonios and Popular Education Using Oral History to Develop Critical Thinking for Social Change - Arturo Zepeda, California State University, Los Angeles

Chair

• Donald A. Ritchie, Historian