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Folklife in Practice

Folklife Curriculum Online Projects

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Folklife: K-12 Folklife Education Standards Integrate Language Arts, Social Studies, Arts and Science Through Student Traditions and Culture.

Welcome To The K-12 Folklife Education Standards

Integrate Language Arts, Social Studies, Arts and Science Through Student Traditions and Culture.

Pennsylvania Standards For Folklife Education the online resource that crosses over the "triviality barrier," and explains why studying folklore is important, not just entertainment.

"Triviality barrier" was coined by Brian Sutton-Smith in a 1970 article, "Psychology of Childlore" in Western Folklore. Nothing in culture is trivial - studying folklore involves understanding the meaning and significance of everyday commonplace things, words, etc.

Every project must answer:

  1. What is its significance?
  2. What is its relevance?
  3. What is the impact of having studied / produced it?

No one has to justify studying math, history, and science. Folklore gives insight into our humanity. those studies have enriched mankind for generations. Studying folklore not only allows intellectual pursuit it documents society and allows for benchmarks as civilization moves from one point to the next in its own crazy path. It rescues procedures - traditions of art and lifestyle that would otherwise be lost.

What the study of folklore can bring to a child or anyone:

1. new ways of communicating
2. cultures other than our own
3. our own culture / traditions
4. expression of feelings or ideas
5. learning problem solving techniques

The Folklife Standards are a contribution to education reform in at least three ways. First, they represent an attempt to reformulate education as a high-quality endeavor, one in which students are expected to achieve substantial learning, not merely to pass their time. Second, they are student centered, treating education as a process in which students must be fully present in all aspects of their identities, including the cultural, if they are to participate fully and in ways that are personally meaningful. Finally, folklife is interdisciplinary, incorporating oral and written language arts skills, social studies research in which even young children can engage, and all the arts disciplines.

Folklorists and educators together have determined that these standards define what students should be able to understand and demonstrate about their own participation in cultural processes by the time they graduate from twelfth grade. The associated transitional standards for grades four and eight represent the expected achievements for students at those levels.

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METHODOLOGY: When I started this project in 1976 I was living in St. Croix U.S.V.I. collectiing children's play parties, chants, songs and games while teaching in Ricardo Richards School.

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