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Record Nr.

UNINA9910781432803321

Titolo

Through the schoolhouse door [[electronic resource] ] : folklore, community, curriculum / / Paddy Bowman and Lynne Hamer, editors

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Logan, Utah, : Utah State University Press, c2011

ISBN

1-283-37235-5

9786613372352

0-87421-860-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (266 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

BowmanPaddy <1947->

HamerLynne M

Disciplina

398.07

Soggetti

Folklore and education - United States

Folklore - Study and teaching - United States

Community and school - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Foreword; Introduction; 1. "I Didn't Know What I Didn't Know": Reciprocal Pedagogy; 2. A Tale of DiscoveryFolklorists and Educators Collaborate toCreate and Implement the LouisianaVoices Educator's Guide; 3. Here at HomeLearning Local-Culture Pedagogy through CulturalTours; 4. Art at the ThresholdFolk Artists in an Urban Classroom; 5. From "Show-Me" Traditionsto "The Show-Me Standards"Teaching Folk Arts in Missouri Classrooms; 6. Every Student Rich in CultureNebraska Folklife Trunks; 7. Folkvine.org: Exploring Arts-Based Research and Habits of Mind

8. "When Lunch Was Just Lunch andNot So Complicated"(Re)Presenting Student Culture through anAlternative Tale9. Turning the University Inside Out:The Padua Alliance for Education andEmpowerment; Conclusion: Learned Lessons, Foreseeable Futures; Works Cited; Appendix

Sommario/riassunto

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