'Sharing Our Voices'--Taking a Learning Disability History Project Online during a Pandemic

Autor/inn/en	Reeve, Jacquelyn; Farmer, Emily; Bayley, William
Titel	'Sharing Our Voices'--Taking a Learning Disability History Project Online during a Pandemic
Quelle	In: British Journal of Learning Disabilities, 50 (2022) 2, S.287-297 (11 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Reeve, Jacquelyn)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1354-4187
DOI	10.1111/bld.12472
Schlagwörter	Learning Disabilities; Educational History; COVID-19; Pandemics; Oral History; Foreign Countries; Information Technology; United Kingdom (England) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Learning handicap; Lernbehinderung; History of education; Bildungsgeschichte; Oral tradition; Mündliche Überlieferung; Ausland; Informationstechnologie
Abstract	This paper reviews the challenges faced by a team at the Grace Eyre Foundation in running a coproduced oral history project during the pandemic. It examines the benefits and challenges of working online, comparing this to face-to-face approaches. For over 100 years, the Grace Eyre Foundation has provided support to people with learning disabilities and/or autism across Sussex. Its founder, Grace Eyre Woodhead, was a pioneer--from around 1896 until her death in 1936, she advocated supporting people with learning disabilities in the community rather than in large, isolated institutions. With Heritage Lottery funding awarded in 2019, 'Sharing Our Voices' set out to: (1) create a digital, oral history collection of people who had lived in Shared Lives arrangements since the 1950s; (2) create a digital archive of the life and work of Grace Eyre Woodhead; and (3) devise a play inspired by the experience of exploring these histories, to be performed as part of the Brighton Fringe Festival 2021. This article: (1) Describes how the Project Team adapted to continue the project during the 2020-2021 lockdowns; (2) Discusses the opportunities, and limitations, of training people using online technologies; (3) Demonstrates the opportunities, and limitations, of conducting oral history interviews online; and Concludes that while online technologies are useful, enabling oral history work to continue under restrictions, there are limits to what can be achieved. We set out some of our learning here but it is hard to see how working online could ever fully replace the benefits of meeting face to face. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01