Teachers study cultural groups of the state and folklife resources such as publications, exhibits, and traveling trunks and conduct fieldwork with festival artists. This institute is part of the NEH-funded Local Learning project of City Lore and the National Network for Folk Arts in Education. Linking Communities and Schools Through Community-Based Research, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, directed by Donna Onebane. Educators mine Louisiana's rich traditional culture as a source for community-based research. Nationally recognized faculty, folklorists, and Louisiana folk artists will demonstrate the myriad ways folklife can be used in education.
Teachers conduct fieldwork and create an accompanying portfolio.
Participants will remain in electronic collaboration. The 3 rd annual Mississippi Whole Schools Institute for uses place as text to prepare participants to use any community as curriculum when they return home. Tracks include theater, music, visual art, folk arts, the Mississippi Delta. Through Social Studies and the Humanities, Lincoln. The 4 th annual institute for teachers from around the state is sponsored by the Nebraska State Historical Society, Nebraska Wesleyan University, and Lincoln Public Schools.