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Keeping students engaged and learning through the “human hook”

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Maya Jasanoff, X. D. and Nancy Yang Professor of Arts and Sciences and Coolidge Professor of History, uses narratives to engage students and deepen their understanding of course content.

Learning Lab (Bok Center)

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The Derek Bok Center for Teaching & Learning’s Learning Lab routinely partners with faculty to develop assignments that foster students’ science communication and presentation skills.

Center for Writing and Communicating Ideas

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Instructors can point students to resources for improving presentation skills available across the University including the Graduate School of Arts and Science’s Center for Writing and Communicating Ideas.resources.

Oral Histories: Getting started (Radcliffe)

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Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study’s Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America offers guidance for getting started conducting oral histories and research tips.

The Smithsonian Folklife and Oral History Interviewing Guide

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The Smithsonian’s Center for Folklife & Cultural Heritage supplies an interviewing guide specific to oral history.

Principles and Best Practices for Oral History

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The Oral History Association provides principles and best practices for oral histories.

Research: Using Personal Narratives as a Pedagogical Tool: Empowering Students through Stories.

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The use of first- and second-hand storytelling within higher education was found to improve engagement, promote critical thinking, and assist internalization of technical and theoretical concepts in a relatable manner. Additional research suggests that...

Research: The Power of Story To Personalize, Enrich, and Humanize Communication Education: My Own Story about Having Fun Spinning Tales, and Illustrating Key Points in the Classroom.

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Research: Enhancing Student Engagement with Their Studies: A Digital Storytelling Approach

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One person’s story as entry to complex historical issues

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Gabriela Soto Laveaga, Professor of the History of Science, illustrates how combining nineteenth century documents with oral histories can help unpack complex current issues and disrupt certain assumptions on topics such as undocumented border crossings...