The Past Next to Us. Oral History and Local Communities: A History of Proximity Cover Image

TRECUTUL DE LÂNGĂ NOI. ISTORIA ORALĂ SI COMUNITĂŢILE LOCALE: O ISTORIE DE PROXIMITATE
The Past Next to Us. Oral History and Local Communities: A History of Proximity

Author(s): Doru Radosav
Subject(s): History
Published by: Argonaut
Keywords: oral history, local community, teaching history

Summary/Abstract: In 2010, Oral History Institute of Cluj-Napoca began a training program for teachers in the pre-university education in Romania, entitled The Past next to us. Oral history in local communities. Thus, oral history became a proximate genre situated in the proximity of the past. Through oral history from the local community, the history of the family and of the individual occur a gradual and concentric reduction of the “great history of the world”, to the history of the individual, family and community.

  • Issue Year: 2013
  • Issue No: XIII
  • Page Range: 7-10
  • Page Count: 4
  • Language: Romanian