13 questions in historical research oral history
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A QUESTION FOR
YOU
CURIOSITY
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Are you Ready
for a new
Research
Methodology? 8 April 2015 2
13 QUESTIONS IN HISTORICAL
RESEARCH
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Question 1
What is historical research?
Historical research is a process of critical
inquiry into past events, in order to produce
an accurate description and interpretation of
those events (Wiersma, 1986)
It involves systematic objective data
collection and its analysis.
!!!There is No History but Histories. Histories
change in response to the dominant values
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Question 2
Why do we do historical research?
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Question 3
What are features of historical
research?
With new information
With new theories & values
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Question 4How did historical research develop?
Greeks 5th C. BC
Herodotus -Father of History –
Thucydides –military history- cause and
effect
Romans
3rd BC Cato the Elder in Latin biographies
1rd C. BC Strabo combined history &
geography
Livy alternative history8 April 2015 8
Middle Ages
Christianity, Cannons, annals, narration.
Renaissance
History of states & nations
Enlightenment
Voltaire: Social history, global history, agesDavid Hume: History of culture, scientists Thomas Carlyle: History of French Revolution with un-neutral dramatic tone.
IslamLife of prophet, science of hadithBiruni: world history, history of pre-IslamIbn Khaldun: Philosophy and methodology of history
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Question 5
What are current trends in historical
research?
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Question 6What are approaches in historical research?
• Cultural approach
• Gender / feminist
• Marxist / socialist
• Postcolonial …
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Question 7What are steps in doing historical
research?
Narrate
Synthesize,
explain
Organization of data
Evaluation of data
Locating data
Extensive Literature review
Identifying research questions8 April 2015 12
Question 8What are sources in historical research?
• Primary Sources: First hand access to the
events
– Documents: personal records, letters, diaries,
newspaper articles, pamphlets, essays, memos,
reports, handbooks, wills …
– Oral data: interviews, songs …
– Relics: sculpture, remains, art pieces, furniture,
clothes, archeological fragments
• Secondary Sources - one level removed
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Question 9
How do we evaluate the data ?
Process of criticismExternal criticism:
validity of the document.
Is it authentic or fake?
Internal criticism:
Can we trust the data.
Bias? Competency?
Inaccuracy
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Question 10
What is oral history?Oral history is a field of study and a method of gathering, preserving and interpreting the voices and memories of people, communities, and participants in past events. Both process and a product.
Interviews are the method of choice in oral history.
!!! life histories covers usually longer time, oral history are episodic.
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Oral History
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Question 11Why I should choose oral history?
• Democratic & all-inclusive
• Narrating is therapeutic & self discovering
• Doable with few resources
• Sometimes only possibility resource– People tend to remember significant events.
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Question 12What makes historical research difficult?
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Question 13What are historical research in psychotherapy?
Archives of
Psychotherapist
s
Biographies
Development of
Methods
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Globalization of
psychotherapy
Archives of
Psychotherapi
sts
Biographies
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This presentation is prepared by
Fatma Tuba Aydin
For further info visit
http://www.psikoterapi.info.tr/en/
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