Through the schoolhouse door: folklore, community, curriculum

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 folklor.

Forward: How to begin to know what you didn't know / Bonnie Stone Sunstein -- " I didn't know what I didn't know: reciprocal pedagogy / Paddy Bowman -- A tale of discovery: folklorists and educators collaborate to create and implement the Louisiana voices educator's guide / Maida Owens with Eileen Engel -- Here at home: learning local-culture pedagogy through cultural tours / Anne Pryor [and others] -- Art at the threshold: folk artists in an urban classroom / Amanda Dargan -- From "show-me" traditions to "the show-me standards": teaching folk arts in Missouri classrooms / Lisa L. Higgins and Susan Eleuterio -- Every student rich in culture: Nebraska folklife trunks / Gwendolyn K. Meister with Patricia C. Kurtenbach -- Folkvine.org: Exploring arts-based research and habits of mind / Kristin G. Congdon with Karen Branen -- "When lunch was just lunch and not so complicated": (re)presenting student culture through an alternative tale / Lisa Rathje -- Turning the university inside out: the Padua Alliance for education and empowerment / Lynne Hamer -- Conclusion: Learned lessons, foreseeable futures / Paddy Bowman and Lynne Hamer.