Oral history in the class

Oral history does not currently have a fixed place in the history curriculum of secondary education or at Dutch teacher training colleges. This is a missed opportunity in our view, because it is a method that can mean a lot to (history) education. With this site, we would like to contribute to making oral history accessible in the classroom.

We focus on students at teacher training colleges and teachers in secondary and higher education. The site offers examples of oral history interviews conducted by students, downloadable teaching materials for using oral history in the classroom, and resources for starting your own oral history project with students.

Oral history education is ideally suited for the subject history, the learning area people and society, and citizenship education.