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    The document discusses life histories, biographical research, local and oral history, and interacting with history through historical shrines and museums. It defines life history and biographical research as qualitative methods that involve interviewing people about significant events in their lives and reconstructing life histories. Local history aims to understand how people's lives connect to their community's past and future, while oral history records interviews with those who have personal experiences of historical events. Historical sites and museums serve as portals to the past and preserve cultural identity and historic continuity.

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    The document discusses life histories, biographical research, local and oral history, and interacting with history through historical shrines and museums. It defines life history and biographical research as qualitative methods that involve interviewing people about significant events in their lives and reconstructing life histories. Local history aims to understand how people's lives connect to their community's past and future, while oral history records interviews with those who have personal experiences of historical events. Historical sites and museums serve as portals to the past and preserve cultural identity and historic continuity.

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    The document discusses life histories, biographical research, local and oral history, and interacting with history through historical shrines and museums. It defines life history and biographical research as qualitative methods that involve interviewing people about significant events in their lives and reconstructing life histories. Local history aims to understand how people's lives connect to their community's past and future, while oral history records interviews with those who have personal experiences of historical events. Historical sites and museums serve as portals to the past and preserve cultural identity and historic continuity.

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    READINGS IN PHILIPPINE HISTORY

    DOING LIFE HISTORIES & BIOGRAPHICAL RESEARCH


     What is life History?

    - Life history interviewing is a qualitative method of data collection


    where people are asked to document their life over a period of time.
    It is a personal account of their life, in their own words and using
    their own personal time lines. Accordingly, they tend to be selective,
    contingent upon remembered events that are amenable to being told,
    be they fact or fiction.
     What is Biographical Research?

    - Is a qualitative research approach aligned to the social interpretive


    paradigm of research. The biographical research is concerned with
    the reconstruction of life histories and the constitution of meaning
    based on biographical narratives and documents. The material for
    analysis consists of interview protocols (memorandums), video
    recordings, photographs, and a diversity of sources. These documents
    are evaluated and interpreted according to specific rules and criteria. 
     Why life histories and biographical research is important?

     It encourages dialogue by building connection between people and


    it affirms their role as co-determining subjects of their
    own life and lived stories. Life history has been given many
    meanings in several scientific fields. It can refer to a variety of
    methods used for conducting qualitative narrative interviews.
    DOING LOCAL & ORAL HISTORY
     What is Local History?

    - Local history attempts to reconstruct the history of a place to


    understand how the way people lived connects to the community’s
    present and future.
     What is Oral History?

    - Oral history is a method of conducting historical research through


    recorded interviews between a narrator with personal experience of
    historically significant events and a well-informed interviewer, with
    the goal of adding to the historical record.
     Why Local and Oral History is important?

    - 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 archive as an historical resource.
    INTERACTING WITH HISTORY THROUGH
    HISTORICAL SHRINES AND MUSEUMS
     Historical shrines and museum serve as portals to the past. 0ut one
    must also take note that visiting a museum entails preparation.

     Upon arriving in the historical shrine or museum, one thing that


    you can do is to look for the historical marker. This markers put
    up by the National Historical Commission of the Philippines
    (NHCP or formerly National Historical Institute or NHI) provide a
    certain details on what makes
     Why is it important to preserve our museums and historical
    shrines?

    - The reason for preserving them, aside from their architectural


    value, is that they embody our values, our cultural identity and
    historic continuity. Protecting our patrimony helps remind people of
    their historical roots and identity and can serve to bind the nation
    together.

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