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Audio Recording Tammie Sarver and Stefi Schäfer interview conducted by Nicole Musgrave, 2024-02-02

Tammie Sarver and Stefi Schäfer interview conducted by Nicole Musgrave, 2024-02-02
Audio recording of interview with Tammie Sarver and Stefi Schäfer conducted by Nicole Musgrave, part 1.

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Tammie Sarver and Stefi Schäfer interview conducted by Nicole Musgrave, 2024-02-02
Audio recording of interview with Tammie Sarver and Stefi Schäfer conducted by Nicole Musgrave, part 2.

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Title

  • Tammie Sarver and Stefi Schäfer interview conducted by Nicole Musgrave, 2024-02-02

Summary

  • Stefi Schäfer is a co-teacher in the early childhood classroom at Blue Mountain School in Floyd, Virginia. She has worked at the school for 13 years. She earned an associate degree in early childhood development in 1999. Prior to her studies she did in-home care, and prior to that she came to the US from Germany as an au pair. Tammie Sarver has been the director of Blue Mountain School since December 2020. Tammie started at Blue Mountain School in the early childhood classroom, then she became an elementary school teacher. Later, she moved to upper elementary/middle school, which is where she was at the start of the pandemic. Tammie has worked in child care since graduating from college with a degree in English. In their interview, Stefi and Tammie discuss their professional trajectories in child care; how the school decided to close at the start of the pandemic; the school's collective decision-making process; safety protocols implemented when the school reopened; the implementation of outdoor classrooms and outdoor napping; how the school supported children's emotional wellbeing; the impact of the pandemic on children; changes the school has made to better support children and teachers; pandemic-related policies and innovations that are still in place.

Names

  • Sarver, Tammie, interviewee
  • Schäfer, Stefi, interviewee
  • Musgrave, Nicole, 1987- interviewer

Created / Published

  • 2024-02-02.

Headings

  • -  Sarver, Tammie--Interviews
  • -  Schäfer, Stefi--Interviews
  • -  Child care services--Virginia
  • -  Child care workers--Appalachian Region--Interviews
  • -  Child care services--Appalachian Region
  • -  COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020-2023--Educational aspects
  • -  COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020-2023--Moral and ethical aspects
  • -  Work environment
  • -  COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020-2023--Psychological aspects
  • -  COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020-2023--Social aspects
  • -  COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020-2023--Influence

Genre

  • Digital photographs--Color--2020-2030
  • Sound recordings
  • Personal narratives
  • Oral histories
  • Interviews

Notes

  • -  Recorded at the Blue Mountan School, Floyd, Virginia, February 2, 2024.
  • -  It Takes a Village: Rural Central Appalachian Childcare Providers' COVID-19 Experiences: COVID-19 American History Project (AFC 2023/017), American Folklife Center, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

Medium

  • 2 sound recordings (1:42:59, 7:34, WAV) : digital
  • 39 photographs : digital, color, TIF
  • 1 manuscript (PDF) : digital

Source Collection

  • It Takes a Village: Rural Central Appalachian Childcare Providers' COVID-19 Experiences: COVID-19 American History Project AFC 2023/017

Repository

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Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2024655292

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  • image
  • pdf

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It Takes a Village: Rural Central Appalachian Childcare Providers' COVID-19 Experiences: COVID-19 American History Project, 2023-2024 (AFC 2023/017), American Folklife Center, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

Pandemic Stories from New Orleans-Area Service and Hospitality Workers: COVID-19 American History Project, 2023-2024 (AFC 2023/016), American Folklife Center, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

Reflections on the COVID-19 Pandemic from Last Responders: COVID-19 American History Project, (AFC 2023/018), American Folklife Center, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

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Chicago citation style:

Sarver, Tammie, Interviewee, Stefi Schäfer, and Nicole Musgrave. Tammie Sarver and Stefi Schäfer interview conducted by Nicole Musgrave, -02-02. -02-02, 2024. Pdf. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2024655292/.

APA citation style:

Sarver, T., Schäfer, S. & Musgrave, N. (2024) Tammie Sarver and Stefi Schäfer interview conducted by Nicole Musgrave, -02-02. -02-02. [Pdf] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2024655292/.

MLA citation style:

Sarver, Tammie, Interviewee, Stefi Schäfer, and Nicole Musgrave. Tammie Sarver and Stefi Schäfer interview conducted by Nicole Musgrave, -02-02. -02-02, 2024. Pdf. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/2024655292/>.