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Honoring Experience through Oral History: Reflections on Teaching a High School Walmart Employee

May 9, 2017 Incite Institute at Columbia University
Image courtesy of Wikimedia

Image courtesy of Wikimedia

In this final post in our four-part series, Heather Michael talks about her experiences teaching high school students who were navigating their lives in school, while working for Walmart. She discusses Adam Reich’s recent OHMA Workshop Series lecture, “The Summer for Respect: Student Activists, Walmart Workers, and the Future of the American Labor Movement,” honing in on the parallels between the insight Reich gained through his project and the value of using oral history as a way to validate experiences.   

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In Workshop Reflections Tags heather michael, adam reich, sociology, oral history, teaching, high school, independence, expl, activism, normalization, listen, adolescents, research, social science, perspective
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