Through the schoolhouse door : folklore, community, curriculum / Paddy Bowman and Lynne Hamer, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bowman, Paddy, 1947-

Hamer, Lynne M.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Folklore and education--United States.

Folklore and education.

Folklore--Study and teaching--United States.

Folklore.

Community and school--United States.

Community and school.

Folklore--Study and teaching.

United States.

Physical Description:

xiii, 250 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Logan, Utah : Utah State University Press, 2011.

Summary:

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 that 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."

Through the Schoolhouse Door offers a collection of experiences from exemplary school programs and the analysis of an expert group of folklorists and educators, who are dedicated not only to getting students out the door and into their communities to learn about the folk culture all around them but also to honoring the culture that teachers and students bring to the classroom. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 "I Didn't Know What I Didn't Know": Reciprocal Pedagogy / Paddy Bowman Bowman, Paddy 19

2 A Tale of Discovery: Folklorists and Educators Collaborate to Create and Implement the Louisiana Voices Educator's Guide / Maida Owens Owens, Maida, Eileen Engel Engel, Eileen 47

3 Here at Home: Learning Local-Culture Pedagogy through Cultural Tours / Anne Pryor Pryor, Anne, Debbie Kmetz Kmetz, Debbie, Ruth Olson Olson, Ruth, Steven A. Ackerman Ackerman, Steven A. 68

4 Art at the Threshold: Folk Artists in an Urban Classroom / Amanda Dargan Dargan, Amanda 99

5 From "Show-Me" Traditions to "The Show-Me Standards": Teaching Folk Arts in Missouri Classrooms / Lisa L. Higgins Higgins, Lisa L., Susan Eleuterio Eleuterio, Susan 120

6 Every Student Rich in Culture: Nebraska Folklife Trunks / Gwendolyn K. Meister Meister, Gwendolyn K., Patricia C. Kurtenbach Kurtenbach, Patricia C. 139

7 Folkvine.org: Exploring Arts-Based Research and Habits of Mind / Kristin G Congdon Congdon, Kristin G, Karen Branen Branen, Karen 151

8 "When Lunch Was Just Lunch and Not So Complicated": (Re)Presenting Student Culture through an Alternative Tale / Lisa Rathje Rathje, Lisa 168

9 Turning the University Inside Out: The Padua Alliance for Education and Empowerment / Lynne Hamer Hamer, Lynne 192.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780874218596

0874218594

9780874218602

0874218608

OCLC:

748576704