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Module 4 - Lesson 1 GECC 106 - DAMIAN, Belle Kimberly C.

Local history focuses on smaller events and communities, using written documents for support, while oral history involves undocumented stories passed down verbally. Knowing local and oral history is important for Filipinos and ethnic groups to understand societal changes. They complement each other as local history provides context and easier access, while oral history requires many participants for reliability and adds personal memories.

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Module 4 - Lesson 1 GECC 106 - DAMIAN, Belle Kimberly C.

Local history focuses on smaller events and communities, using written documents for support, while oral history involves undocumented stories passed down verbally. Knowing local and oral history is important for Filipinos and ethnic groups to understand societal changes. They complement each other as local history provides context and easier access, while oral history requires many participants for reliability and adds personal memories.

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DAMIAN, Belle Kimberly C.

BSEE – 1EA April 16, 2021 GECC 106

“Module 4 – Lesson 1”

1. How do local and oral history differ from other sub-discipline of history?
- Local history at times may very well passed down as oral history, however, local history, which
potentially could also fall under public history, is a part of studying micro history, or history of
more minor events in the grand scheme of history. That is to say, the history a particular city or
family, etc. Oral history is history that is passed down that is not written, or documented in a way
to ensure the story from changing overtime. Local history is supported by factual written
documents, in addition to oral history.

2. How important is our knowledge of local and oral history as Filipino Citizens, and as a member of a
particular ethnic group?
- It is very important because local history contains a wealth of details and stories that help reveal
how societal changes impacted the lives of ordinary people. While the oral helps us round out the
story of the past. They’re the passing on of knowledge, memory and experience by word of
mouth. They can take the form of anything from folklore, myths and stories passed from person
to person, to a formal interview about a particular event with someone that is recorded and kept
in an achieve as an historical resource.

3. In what ways do local and oral history complement and strengthen each other? Give concrete
situation.
- Local history, due to its nature, can be easily accessed. Local history within its context focuses
on local communities which incorporate cultural and social aspects. Memories are more readily
retrievable. Oral history often requires numerous participants in order to have more reliable
testimony. A number of participants are required. Despite conducting interviews shortly after
events, there is no guarantee of objectivity. George Trevalyan believed that the true test is
whether or not evidence is touched in good faith. In terms of oral history, Freud helps the view
that all human experience was stored within the recesses of the brain or mind. Freud also
believed that through drugs, hypnosis, meditation etc. all experiences could be recalled. The
pitfalls of oral sources that differ from documentation are for the clinician to find unique ways of
interpreting through this process and through providing other sources. Hence, local history is the
produced. Fundamentally, historical research or biographical research comes about when we
discover the present in a past that we say we have represented. For an individual to divulge all
history, one needs to possess the ability to inwardly reflect. Through strong client therapist
relationships, content is hopefully conveyed honestly.

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