Učitelé v totalitním režimu – život a práce učitelů v Československu v letech 1969-1989
| Title in English | Teachers in a totalitarian regime - the life and work of teachers in Czechoslovakia in the years 1969-1989 |
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| Year of publication | 2014 |
| Type | Appeared in Conference without Proceedings |
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| Description | Historical-pedagogical research in socialist education has been virtually non-existent. Moreover, the amount and quality of official sources are limited. The use of oral history can help obtain unique information on everyday life in basic schools of the normalization period as well as on the teachers and their private and professional lives. Witnesses of normalization are growing older and passing away and their unique experience and histories are becoming lost forever. More than twenty years after the Velvet Revolution it is high time to start collecting and studying life stories of teachers systematically through scholarly research. Oral history is not only a method for collecting new data on modern history but also a methodological challenge for educational history in the Czech Republic, an educational discipline whose methodology has recently lacked systematic innovation. Developing oral history at the theoretical level for the purposes of research in educational history as well as its subsequent application will be a significant methodological innovation on which further research – perhaps beyond history of education and covering also the history of educational sciences in the communist era – will be able to build. Oral history can also be applied in research of the transformation of schools in the 1990s or in research of implementation of various reforms or new technologies in various types of schools in recent past. |
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