by divinw | Aug 18, 2021
Before visiting a museum, we ask students to inventory their assumptions about what they expect, even if the institution is a familiar one—to think about where it is, how it sits on the landscape, its relationship to the natural and built environments. This exercise...
by divinw | Aug 18, 2021
Joanna Pecore Asian Arts & Culture Center, Towson University, Towson, Maryland Discovery Questions What can art objects from distant times and places express about the identity of the people and the cultures depicted in them? How would students represent group...
by divinw | Aug 18, 2021
Observing the traditions and traditional art forms around us, we learn why and how informal local learning underpins our lives and the knowledge and skills that we acquire in classrooms and formal academic settings. By interviewing family and community members to...
by divinw | Aug 12, 2021
The Kentucky Commission on Human Rights and a consortium of organizations developed Kentucky Remembers to train students to collect stories of human rights movement activists. The project demonstrated that through the folklore of our daily lives we can articulate what...
by divinw | Aug 12, 2021
Folklife is community life and values, artfully expressed in myriad interactions. It is universal, diverse, and enduring. It enriches the nation and makes us a commonwealth of cultures. The traditional knowledge and skills required to make a pie crust, plant a garden,...
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