Oral
History
All About Intergenerational
Interviews
A variety of topics about intergenerational interviews from experts,
including topics, such as storytelling, hints for interviews,
rediscovering our stories, as well as a resource list.
Basket
Full of Memories
An anthology of interviews promotes intergenerational communication and understanding
Illinoisans across the state conducted interviews of another generation
- a parent, grandparent, great grandparents, son, daughter, grandchild,
and so forth, as a way of learning about history and sharing family
memories.
Career Stories
An anthology of career experiences told by older adults and careers
expectations written by youngsters.
Celebrate America!
Citizenship was the topic of
Intergenerational
Interviews conducted by young and old.
Family
History
Excerpts from the award winning book,
"History
Comes Home: Family Stories Across the Curriculum"
invites students to reflect their sense of self and family through
intergenerational activities, such as oral history interviews,
family stories, community histories, memoirs and family ethnographies.
Using the workshop format, the authors show how these activities
can be easily integrated into math, art, technology, language
arts, science, geography, and history.
Interviewing
Older Adults
A tried and true instrument used for interviewing older adults
which includes an outline for giving an oral and/or written report.
Students get so enthused with these interviews that they beg for
extra minutes when reporting to class.
Interviewing
Students
A tried and true instrument used for conducting oral history interviews with elementary, secondary
and college students.
Mini
Interview
A shortened form for a beginning interview
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