Local Learning @ 2011 AFS, Bloomington
Keeping the Peace: Educating for Social JusticeGreat sessions at the 18th AFS Education Workshop connected personal, community, and global social justice issues and endeavors. Thanks to all our dynamic presenters and participants. Click this program link for session descriptions and resources for the webography and bibliography handouts. The AFS Children's Section awarded the 2011 Aesop Prize to Trickster: Native American Tales, A Graphic Collection. Edited by Matt Dembicki. Golden, CO: Fulcrum Books, 2010. Click here to find this year's Accolade winners as well as winners for previous years.
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Welcome to Local LearningWe prepare young people, their teachers, and their families to discover, research, and draw on traditional culture and local knowledge to enrich education and create stronger communities. Local Learning advocates for the full inclusion of folk and traditional arts and artists in the nation's education. Through the Schoolhouse Door: Folklore, Community, Curriculum Paddy Bowman and Lynne Hamer, eds., 2011, order now from Utah State University Press.
Local Learning Lesson Universal yet unique to each community, family, and individual, folk arts and folklore provide inherently interdisciplinary opportunities to investigate local learning in deeply meaningful ways that connect generations, regions of the nation and the world, and diverse ways of knowing. Use the Seasonal Round as an introduction to folk arts and folklore for any age group. |
About Local LearningLocal Learning began as the National Task Force for Folk Arts in Education during a 1993 national roundtable at the National Endowment for the Arts. Today, we are a loose network of hundreds of people interested in engaging young people with their own traditional culture and with the local culture and folklore of their families, regions, and the larger world. |
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