Through the schoolhouse door
Subtitle: folklore, community, curriculum
By: Paddy Bowman and Lynne Hamer, editors
Publisher: Utah State University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Logan, Utah
Language: eng
Number of pages: 250
ISBN-13: 9780874218596; 9780874218602
Subjects: Community and school; Folklore and education; Study and teaching; Folklore
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.