A historian

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A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human race; as well as the study of all history in time.

Interview, where questions are asked to elicit information. The interviewer is usually a professional or paid researcher, sometimes trained, who poses questions to the interviewee, in an alternating series of usually brief questions and answers. They can be contrasted with focus groups in which an interviewer questions a group of people and observes the resulting conversation between interviewees, or surveys which are more anonymous and limit respondents to a range of predetermined answer choices. In addition, there are special considerations when interviewing children. In phenomenological or ethnographic research, interviews are used to uncover the meanings of central themes in the life world of the subjects from their own point of view. Marguerite Martyn ( 1948)

Oral history is the systematic collection of living people’s testimony about their own experiences. Oral history is not folklore, gossip, hearsay, or rumor. Oral historians attempt to verify their findings, analyze them, and place them in an accurate historical context. Oral historians are also concerned with storage of their findings for use by later scholars. (From Moyer.)

 

 

Things to consider before an interview.

Prepare the topic to be discussed, here an interviewee should select a topic which he or she want to use in data collection for example the topic may deals with the importance of oral source in history development.

Prepare questions for the interviewer, here an historian should prepare questions which will help him or her to gether data or information according to the topic he or she choose

Think about what kind of people you are going to interview them considering the type of your interview and method are you going to use.

Choose your research assistance who is familiar with the environment which you are going to do your interview and make eraly agreements about payment in order to avoid mistakes during interviews.

Make sure that you contacting with local authority,get permission from local leader of that place and informing them that you are doing an interview in their area this will assure you more security during interviews session.

Make sure you make contact with your interviewee before getting there and plan a day for doing such activity without interfear his or her daily activities.

Make sure you dress appropriately, in dressing code you should avoid football clothes or political party uniforms this will help you to collect data without biased from the intervwee.

Make sure that you are already prepareand test the equipment to be used in interview such equipment is like a tape recorder if you will be allowed to record the information, active microphone, and notebook and batteries.

Make sure you carry identity card or a letter which recognize you where do you come from and what are you dealing with, this will make easy for the informant to believe you and be open to give you a better information.

Make sure you switch of phones or make them silence in oder to avoid interactions during interview.

Make sure you prepare your self well mentally that will help you to make sure you pay attention and interest in hearing about the information which an informant give you, this will make interest also to an informant to be free in informing you.

Avoid using difficult vocabulary questions in asking question this is to avoid misunderstanding during interviews.

Do not let you opinions during the interview just listen to the informant and then judge the information letter on but not in front of the informant.

Make sure you use eye contact and do not hurry in asking questions to the informant wait until he or she finish to answer question and give him or her few minites and ask another question.

 

 

 

 

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