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Course: Biography and Oral History for P. S. Teachers

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Course title	Biography and Oral History for P. S. Teachers
Course code	KHI/BOHPS
Organizational form of instruction	Lecture + Seminary
Level of course	Master
Year of study	not specified
Semester	Winter
Number of ECTS credits	2
Language of instruction	Czech, English
Status of course	Compulsory-optional
Form of instruction	Face-to-face
Work placements	This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components	None
Course availability	The course is available to visiting students

Lecturer(s)
Farchado Dinia Kateřina, Doc. PaedDr. Ph.D.
Course content
1. Introduction to the biographical method, its character and importance, narrative in history, qualitative research methods and oral history; input of reading and seminar assignments 2. Seminar Reading - Analysis and Discussion: Franklin, Benjamin. Autobiography. Norton Critical Edition. Ed. by Joyce E. Chaplin. London and New York: W.W. Norton, 2012. https://books.google.com/books?id=NFhHAAAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=Franklin,+Benjamin.+Autobiography.&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiVpMLisZ7ZAhXS2aQKHdcEA0YQ6AEILzAB#v=onepage&q=Franklin%2C%20Benjamin.%20Autobiography . & f = false 3. Seminar Reading - Analysis and Discussion: ELIADE, Mircea. Autobigraphy. 1907-1986. Mac Linscott Ricketts. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1990. https://books.google.com/books?id=ntUnAgAAQBAJ&pg=PR4&dq=Autobiography.+1907%E2%80%931986&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi_zu2lsZ7ZAhXQCOwKHU6FC1MQ6AEIKzAA#v=onepage&q=Autobiography. % 201907% E2% 80% 931986 & f = false 4. Seminar Reading and Discussion: AMBROSIUS, Lloyd. E. (ed.). Writing Biography: Historians and Their Craft. Lincoln - London: University of Nebraska Press, 2004. Also available from www: https://books.google.com/books?id=N3x7HSOpIG0C&printsec=frontcover&dq=writing-biography-historians-their-craft.html cs & sa = X & ved = 0ahUKEwjExeGSsp7ZAhXS0aQKHYntA3sQ6AEIKDAA # v = onepage & q = writing-biography-historians-their-craft. 5. Analysis and discussion: MORÁVKOVÁ, Naděžda. Reader of Modern Historiography I. Plzeň: Koniáš, 2011. ISBN 987-80-86948-13-3. Arnold Joseph Toynbee 6. Analysis and discussion: MORÁVKOVÁ, Naděžda. Reader of Modern Historiography I. Pilsen: Koniáš, 2011. ISBN 987-80-86948-13-3Edward Hallet Carr 7. Analysis and discussion: MORÁVKOVÁ, Naděžda. Reader of Modern Historiography I. Plzeň: Koniáš, 2011. ISBN 987-80-86948-13-3. Hayden White. 8. Seminar on reading: JARDIN, André. Tocqueville. A Biography. Translated from French by Lydia Davis with Robert Hemenway. Baltimore - London: The John Hopkins University Press, 1998. 9. Seminar on reading: CAINE, Barbara. Biography and history. First published. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. vii, 152 pages. Theory and history. ISBN 978-1-4039-8726-6. 10. - 13. Presentation of students' seminar assignments with discussion.
Learning activities and teaching methods
Contact hours - 26 hours per semester Preparation for comprehensive test (10-40) - 26 hours per semester
prerequisite
Knowledge
to show an orientation in history at the level of standards for teaching history in high school
Skills
to communicate and to read in English at the level B2, to master the basics of oral history and qualitative research
Competences
N/A
N/A
N/A
learning outcomes
Knowledge
the main topics of contemporary biographical literature in the world, contemporary and historical methods of professional biography, knowledge of the possibilities and pitfalls of oral history in professional biography, possibilities and pitfalls of narrative practices in life stories
Skills
orientation in current relevant biographical literature, analysis and expert interpretation of contemporary and historical biographical text. He is capable of basic qualitative research in the field of biography, he is able to use the basic level of narrative techniques in the creation of professional biography.
Competences
N/A
N/A
N/A
teaching methods
Knowledge
Seminar classes
Textual studies
Self-study of literature
Discussion
Skills
Seminar classes
Discussion
Self-study of literature
Textual studies
Competences
Seminar classes
Self-study of literature
Textual studies
Discussion
assessment methods
Knowledge
Individual presentation at a seminar
Portfolio
Project
Skills
Skills demonstration during practicum
Project
Portfolio
Competences
Skills demonstration during practicum
Project
Portfolio
Recommended literature
AMBROSIUS, Lloyd. E. (ed.). Writing Biography: Historians and Their Craft. Lincoln ? London: University of Nebraska Press, 2004.. ATKINSON, Robert. The Life Story Interview. Sage University Papers Series on Qualitative Research Methods, Vol. 44. Thousand Oaks: Sage, 1998. 98 s.. CAINE, Barbara. Biography and history. First published. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. vii, 152 stran. Theory and history. ISBN 978-1-4039-8726-6.. DENZIN, Norman. Interpretative Biography. Newbury Park ? London ? New Delhi: Sage, 1989.. DENZIN, Norman K. ? LINCOLN, Yvonna S. The Sage Handbook of Qualitative Research. Thousand Oaks: Sage, 2005.. ELIADE, Mircea. Autobigraphy. 1907?1986. Translated from the Romanian Mac Linscott Ricketts. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1990.. FLICK, Uwe. Triangulation in Qualitative Research. In: FLICK, Uwe (ed.). A Companion to Qualitative Research. Thousand Oaks: Sage, 2004, s. 178?183.. Franklin, Benjamin. Autobiography. Norton Critical Edition. Ed. by Joyce E. Chaplin. London and New York: W.W. Norton, 2012.. Fritzová Marie. Konstruování životního příběhu jako adekvátní nástroj vědeckého nahlížení. AntropoWebzin.. Západočeská univerzita v Plzni, 2011. GIELE, Janet Zollinger ? ELDER, Glen H. (edd.). Methods of life course research: qualitative and quantitative approaches. Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications, 1988. 344 s.. GOODSON, Ivor ? SIKES, Patricia. J. Life history research in educational settings: learning from lives. Buckingham: Open University Press, 2001. 126 s. Doing qualitative research in educational settings.. GOODSON, Ivor F. Developing narrative theory: life histories and personal representation. London: Routledge, 2013. 146 s.. HURTAGO, Albert L. Herbert Eugene Bolton. Historian of the American Borderlands. Berkeley ? Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2012.. CHAMBERLAYNE, Prue ? BORNAT, Joanna ? WENGRAF, Tom (edd.). The turn to biographical methods in social science: comparative issues and examples. London: Routledge, 2000. 346 s.. JARDIN, André. Tocqueville. A Biography. Translated from the French by Lydia Davis with Robert Hemenway. Baltimore ? London: The John Hopkins University Press, 1998.. KLEIN, Christian ( ed.). Handbuch Biographie: Methoden, Traditionen, Theorien. Stuttgart: J. B. Metzler, 2009. 485 s.. LORIGA, Sabina. The Role of Individual in History: Biografical and Historical Writing in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Century. RENDERS, Hans ? DE HAAN, Binne. Theoretical discussions of biography: approaches from history, microhistory, and life writing. Lewiston: The Edwin Mellen Press, 2013, s. 75?94.. MORÁVKOVÁ, Naděžda. Birth of Modern Pilsen, Czech National Party struggle for the emancipation of the Czech nationalist majority in Pilsen in the second half of the 19th century and early 20th century on the example of the genus Kroft, West Bohemian Historical Review, roč. 6, čís. 2, 2016, ISSN 1804-5480, s.185?212.. MORÁVKOVÁ, Naděžda. Pitfalls of oral history methods in the biographies of historians of the twentieth-century. In: XVI th International Oral History Conference, 7 - 11 July, Prague. Conference Papers. [CD-ROM] Prague: COHA, 2010. 8 s.. MORÁVKOVÁ, Naděžda. Plzeň patriont JUDr. Richard Krofta (1873-1958). On the life on a prominent person i the socio-political life of Plzeň in the first half of the 20th century, MEMO. Časopis pro orální historii/Oral History Journal, roč. 7/2017, č. 2. ISSN 1804-753X (Print); 1804-7548(Online), s. 87-98.. REID, John G. Viola Florence Barnes. 1885?1979. A Historian?s Biography. Toronto ? Buffalo ? London: University of Toronto Press, 2005.. RENDERS, Hans ? DE HAAN, Binne. Theoretical discussions of biography: approaches from history, microhistory, and life writing. Lewiston: The Edwin Mellen Press, 2013. 433 s. Z toho hlavně: LEVI, Giovanni. The Uses of Biography. In: RENDERS, Hans ? DE HAAN, Binne. Theoretical discussions of biography: approaches from history, microhistory, and life writing. Lewiston: The Edwin Mellen Press, 2013, s. 61?75.. RITCHIE, A. Donald. Doing Oral History. New York, 1995. ROBERTS, Brian. Biographical research. Buckingham: Open University Press, 2002. 212 s.. THOMPSON, Paul. The Voice of the Past: Oral History. New York, 1978. TOSH, John. The pursuit of history: aims, methods and new directions in the study of history. Sixth edition. London: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2015. xii, 301 stran. ISBN 978-1-138-80808-9.. VANSINA, Jan. Oral Tradition: A Study in Historical Metodology. Middlesex, 1965. WORDEN, Blair (ed.). Hugh Trevor-Roper. The Historian. London ? New York: I. B. Tauris & Co. Ltd., 2016..

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University of West Bohemia in Pilsen, date of update: 23.04.2025 23:52. Data created for academic year 2025/2026