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    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
Through the Schoolhouse Door: Folklore, Community, Currriculum

Through the Schoolhouse Door: Folklore, Community, Currriculum

Bowman, Paddy
Hamer, Lynne

Paperback

Mythology & FolkloreGeneral EducationTeaching Instruction

ISBN10: 0874218594
ISBN13: 9780874218596
Publisher: Utah State University Press
Published: Oct 16 2011
Pages: 264
Weight: 1.00
Height: 0.70 Width: 6.10 Depth: 8.90
Language: English

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 public education, even though, in the words of Paddy Bowman and Lynne Hamer, connecting young people to family and community members and helping them to develop self-identity are vital to civic well-being and to school success.

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