Museum Resources in the Journal of Folklore and Education

by | May 14, 2025

Over the years, the Journal of Folklore and Education has published resources useful for museum educators, from our special issue dedicated to museum education in 2016 to ongoing articles ranging from teaching with primary sources to community-based museum outreach....

To Dance Irish

by | Jun 11, 2024

This resource was published to 1) Provide more information about Irish Dance, 2) Place this art form within the context of ethnicity, 3) Discover the complexity and cultural meaning behind this art form, and 4) Suggest ways of incorporating Irish dance into social...

Rangoli: Traditions of the Threshold

by | Aug 12, 2021

Threshold traditions offer a concrete form for exploring how rites of passage help practitioners make a transition between two states, such as secular to sacred, outside to inside, child to adult, and so on.

At Home In the World

by | Aug 12, 2021

If membership and identity remain such vexing issues in our country, what can educators do to help students not only cope with the problem but also take action to resolve it? Written by Jim Carnes, editor of Teaching Tolerance, a national education project of the...

Poetry Dialogues

by | Aug 12, 2021

“I was in the sixth grade when I started writing poetry. I had never realized how special poetry was to me. I started writing not just as an assignment, but almost as a way to let myself be free from everything around me. As I grow older, my poetry seems to evolved...