Qualitative Research in Oral History - YMO130

• Anglický název: Qualitative Research in Oral History
• Zajišťuje: Program Orální historie - soudobé dějiny (24-KOHSD)
• Fakulta: Fakulta humanitních studií
• Platnost: od 2022
• Semestr: letní
• E-Kredity: 3
• Způsob provedení zkoušky: letní s.:
• Rozsah, examinace: letní s.:0/2, KZ [HS]
• Počet míst: neurčen / neurčen (neurčen)
• Minimální obsazenost: neomezen
• 4EU+: ne
• Virtuální mobilita / počet míst pro virtuální mobilitu: ne
• Stav předmětu: nevyučován
• Jazyk výuky: angličtina
• Způsob výuky: kombinovaný
• Způsob výuky: kombinovaný
• Garant: Mgr. Jiří Hlaváček, Ph.D.

Anotace

čeština

Poslední úprava: Mgr. Jana Wohlmuth Markupová, Ph.D. (04.01.2013)

This course deals with the potential employment of qualitative research in the study of oral history. An introduction to a variety of research methods, the course focuses on data processing and analysis, and also academic presentation.

Sylabus

Poslední úprava: Mgr. Jiří Hlaváček, Ph.D. (09.03.2021)

Lecture topics:

• 1. Qualitative research and its specifics
• 2. Design of Qualitative Research
• 3. Biographical and narrative research
  
• 4. Memory in interdisciplinary perspective
• 5. Collective Memory and Identity: key concepts
• 6. Fieldwork and interview
• 7. Ethical aspects of qualitative research
• 8. Analysis and interpretation of the interviews
• 9. Grounded theory
• 10. Discourse Analysis
• 11. Methodology of diploma thesis
• 12. Final test (key terms from qualitative research)

Course form:

Recommended Reading based on individual consultations with the teacher. The lectures take place only with a minimum number of five students.


Basic recommended literature:

• CORBIN, J. - STRAUSS, A.: Basics of qualitative research: Techniques and procedures for developing grounded theory. Thousand Oaks : Sage, 4th ed., 2015.
• DENZIN, N. K .: Interpretive Biography. Newbury Park, London, New Delhi: Sage, 1989
• DENZIN, N. K. - LINCOLN, Y. S. (ed.): Strategies of qualitative inquiry. Thousand Oaks: Sage, 4th ed., 2013
  
• FLICK, U. - KARDOFF, E. - STEINKE, I .: Qualitative Forschung: ein Handbuch. Reinbek bei Hamburg: Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag, 2010.
  
• KVALE, S .: Interviews: An Introduction to Qualitative Research Interviewing. Sage Publications, 1996.
  
• MASON, J .: Qualitative Researching. Thousand Oaks: Sage, 2002.
  
• RADSTONE, S. (ed.) Memory and Methodology. Oxford: Berg, 2000.
• RITCHIE, D.: Doing Oral History. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 3rd ed., 2014.
• SILVERMAN, D .: Interpreting Qualitative Data. London: Sage, 5th ed., 2015.

Final exam: Essay (10 pages) on one of the following topics:

• Individual and collective memory in oral history interview
• Truth and method of its verification in narrative sources
• The issue of shared authority in oral history
• The role of interdisciplinarity in the interpretation of narrative sources
• Fieldwork and ethics in oral history research
• New media and oral history interviews: possibilities and limitations of archiving in digital age
• Oral history fieldwork in time of crisis (pandemic covid-19, civil war, natural disasters, migration crisis etc.) 

Note: The course is designed only for students of Oral History - Contemporary History study program in English language.