Through the Schoolhouse Door Folklore, Community, Currriculum

Name: Through the Schoolhouse Door Folklore, Community, Currriculum
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ISBN: 9780874218596

ISBN-10: 0874218594

ISBN-13: 9780874218596

Edition: 2011

Authors: Paddy Bowman, Lynne Hamer

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The creative traditions and expressive culture of students' families, neighborhoods, towns, religious communities, and peer groups provide opportunities to extend classrooms, sustain learning beyond school buildings, and better connect students and schools with their communities. Folklorists and educators have long worked together to expand curricula through engagement with local knowledge and informal cultural arts-folk arts in education is a familiar rubric for these programs-but the unrealized potential here, for both the folklore scholar and the teacher, is large. The value folklorists "place on the local, the vernacular, and the aesthetics of daily life does not reverberate" throughout…

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List price: $28.95
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: University Press of Colorado
Publication date: 10/16/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 264
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.60" tall
Weight: 0.990



Foreword: How to Begin to Know What You Didn't Know



Introduction: Through the Schoolhouse Door




"I Didn't Know What I Didn't Know": Reciprocal Pedagogy




A Tale of Discovery: Folklorists and Educators Collaborate to Create and Implement the Louisiana Voices Educator's Guide




Here at Home: Learning Local-Culture Pedagogy through Cultural Tours




Art at the Threshold: Folk Artists in an Urban Classroom




From "Show-Me" Traditions to "The Show-Me Standards": Teaching Folk Arts in Missouri Classrooms




Every Student Rich in Culture: Nebraska Folklife Trunks




Folkvine.org: Exploring Arts-Based Research and Habits of Mind




"When Lunch Was Just Lunch and Not So Complicated": (Re)Presenting Student Culture through an Alternative Tale




Turning the University Inside Out: The Padua Alliance for Education and Empowerment



Conclusion: Learned Lessons, Foreseeable Futures



Works Cited


Appendix: Selected Folk Arts in Education Resources