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Monday, October 11, 1976
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A new branch of the social sciences, the study of family histories, may be dawning. It isn't yet considered a science, but histories are beginning to use family histories as a research tool, and teachers are starting to use them as a tool for instruction.
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An increasing number of history teachers are assigning their students to do family history projects. Two such teachers at the University of Kansas are Mark Rose and Rita Napier, both assistant professors of history.
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Concern with the history of families, however, is a relatively new phenomenon just now gaining interest, Napier said recently.
"FAMILY HISTORY hasn't been an important topic very long," she said. "It has not been something that historians have focusing on for more than a few years."
"But in the last 10 or 15 years, there's been a tremendous growth in interest in them."
The University of Minnesota has a program in which family histories are compiled. The program, called the Anonymous Families History Project, requests that history teachers throughout the university compile family history papers that their students have written. As the name indicates, each paper is kept anonymous.
NAPIER SAID that she had been assigning family history papers to her students in the three years she has taught at UNC, and is fullful tools for both students and instructors.
"Historians have discoverd that it's interesting to do and fun to do, and more important than that, they've discovered that it's significant in trying to understand how our culture has grown kinds of exciting new things since we've begun to do research into family history."
For the student, Napier said, writing a family history paper presents a means to see himself in today's society in relation to the past.
"The THING that makes it exciting in class." Napier said, "is that it gives students a springboard into the past. It allows students to take personal experience and things that are important to them, and to move from that to an understanding of how other people lived in terms of what must have been important to them."
Rose said that his purpose in assigning family histories was to make the events of American history less of an abstraction and more personal.
HE SAID THAT by understanding what effect history has had on people as individuals, it was easier to understand history itself. Writing a family history paper is a three-way learning experience for students, he said.
"They see what impact their families
have had on American history," Rose said. "They see what impact American developments have had on themselves and on their families. And they understand their family as an internal structure a little bit better."
Assigning family history projects has worked well in class, he said, and his purpose has been accomplished to a surprising degree.
JOYNNE GAMBA, Osage City senior who wrote a family history paper for one of Rose's classes last year, agreed that the project was useful.
"The thing I was amazed about was that all that stuff I'd heard in class really did apply to my family." Gamba siad. "You hear a lot about World War II, but it doesn't really become vivid until you hear your dad's war stories."
Gamba said the project also was valuable because, through writing the paper, she found out about her family's past she might otherwise never have known.
"ONE THING I liked about it," she said, "was that my family has never talked much about its family history before. It's just something that doesn't get brought up very much, and I didn't know a lot of the things I found out."
Rose said it was important to know about one's family history because it was important to know about oneself. He said most of the stories he read about their family's past as they should.
"I myself know very little about my family," he said. "We don't know exactly where they came from. We don't know exactly how they reared their own children. And as a result, we know very little about ourselves."
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HE SAID THIS result was consistent with the American value scheme, in which people perceived themselves as atoms, each free to make his own choice. Americans don't see themselves as tied to past generations, he said.
"Students at KU are the products of American historical development and of their own family's historical development." Rose said. "They cannot escape that."
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FIRST, which stands for For Information and Referral Services Toll free, is a phone service that provides information about career guidance, vocational and technical training offered at various opportunities. The line has been in service since March 1 and is jointly sponsored by the continuing education divisions at the University of Kansas, Kansas State University and the University of Mid-America in consortium of several mid-west schools.
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Jane Curry, assistant professor of political science at Vassar College, will lecture on "All the News That's Not Fit to Print: Polish Journalists as Seen Through the Minutes of the Polish Journalists' Association."
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"THE LINE WAS started to provide information to advance the careers and education of adults who don't have access to this information anywhere else." Elizabeth Babcock, coordinator of FIRST, said Friday. "Some people, such as in those
The lecture is being sponsored by the political science department, the Slavic and Soviet area studies department and the School of Journalism.
The lecture is at 8 tonight in the Council Room of the Kansas Union. Curry spent a year in London, microfilming records from the archives and interviewing dozens of Polish journalists.
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Babcock said FIRST wasn't a placement service. Because counseling over the phone is against the law, she said, FIRST can only tell people where to get training and education, and what the requirements are for a certain career.
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There are three basic types of information given over the phone, Babcock said. One type is formal education opportunities information about courses in all types of schools as well in home study programs, information about such things as language or information and information on career requirements and training are also given, she said.
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Babcock said the idea for the FIRST line came from Robert Senecal, associate dean of continuing education, after he reviewed the results of several state-wide assessments of the vocational guidance needs of people throughout the state. She Kansans had no assessment revealed that Kansans had no convenient source for guidance.
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About 100 initial calls are received every month, she said. This doesn't count the follow-up phone contact she has with people to trace the different steps of their journey. The program that Babcock estimated that FIRST had received a total of 2,000 phone calls.
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Babcock said the number of calls FIRST received didn't indicate the total number of people served by the line. Many of the people who received the calls who get information for their students.
One of the counselors is Dennis Butler of Shawnee Mission South High School in Indianapolis, where he helped by FIRST, he said, was a student who had dyslexia, a reading disability, and wanted to go into a radio and television program. He said he'd get writing instruction in Great Britain.
"I think it's fantastic," Butler said. "I don't know what we'd do without it. We can call FIRST for any information we need which isn't in an occupational handbook."
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