Teaching with Folk Sources - the Journal of Folklore and Education
Vermont Folklife is featured in the 10th Volume of the Journal of Folklore and Education!
The volume focuses on Teaching With Folk Sources, a partnership with our colleagues Local Learning that Vermont Folklife staff have been involved with over the past two years. Funded by the Library of Congress Teaching with Primary Sources (TPS) program, Teaching With Folk Sources focuses on making materials in ethnographic and oral history archives accessible to classroom teachers.
The special issues of the Journal of Folklore in Education presents projects created in the first two years of the Teaching with Folk Sources project by Vermont Folklife, HistoryMiami Museum and its South Florida Folklife Center, the Oklahoma Oral History Research Program of the Oklahoma State University Library and the OSU Writing Project. In the third year of the project, Local Learning and VT Folklife will continue to work with Oklahoma State University and new partners at the Folk and Traditional Arts Program of Washington State Parks.
Below is a description of the latest volume of the Journal of Folklore and Education, courtesy of the Journal.
We are happy to announce publication of the 2023 Journal of Folklore and Education “Teaching with Folk Sources.”
This 10th Volume of the Journal of Folklore and Education offers two issues packed with resources and content. Expanding mainstream notions that primary sources are historical documents housed in hard-to-access archives, this volume showcases archival items that expand our vision of community, self, the past, the future, art, pedagogical opportunities—and, yes, history.
Issue 2 features work by our consortium project Teaching with Folk Sources, funded by the Library of Congress Teaching with Primary Sources (TPS) program: https://jfepublications.org/journal/vol-10-2/ (But I also recommend Issue 1 for some excellent articles that came from our network from our Call for Submissions!)
Read more about our project from our Guest Editor and Co-director Sasha Antohin: https://jfepublications.org/article/teaching-with-folk-sources-project-introduction/
Explore the User Guide the instructional model, key concepts, and multiple types of literacy (visual, aural, textual, cultural) that structure the five units of the curriculum guide. A scaffolded activity from the Occupational Folklife Project (click on Classroom Connections) demonstrates the power of folk sources to create multiple formats for context-building and perspective taking. about https://jfepublications.org/article/user-guide-to-teaching-with-folk-sources/
And then dig in to the 5 units:
Teaching with Folk Sources
Learning through Listening
Learning through Observation and Museum Collections
Community and Identity (a special unit targeting the younger students written by a Kindergarten educator partner)
Challenging History (with a timely article by Shanedra Nowel and Robin Fisher: Using Primary Sources to Foster Difficult Dialogues).
I hope this new resource proves useful!
