Through the Schoolhouse Door: Folklore, Community, Currriculum

Through the Schoolhouse Door: Folklore, Community, Currriculum

2011 | 264 | ISBN: 0874218594 | PDF | 2 Mb

The creative traditions and strong culture of students' families, neighborhoods, towns, exact communities, and peer groups provide opportunities to impart classrooms, sustain learning beyond school buildings, and less ill connect students and schools with their communities. Folklorists and educators own long worked together to expand curricula through contract with local knowledge and informal cultural arts-folk arts in education is a familiar rubric for these programs-on the contrary the unrealized potential here, for the pair the folklore scholar and the tutor, is large. The value folklorists "ground on the local, the vernacular, and the philosophy of the fine arts of daily life does not send back" throughout public education, even though, in the accents of Paddy Bowman and Lynne Hamer, "connecting young the vulgar to family and community members and helping them to grow self-identity are vital to civil well-being and to school fortunate hit."...