ED 540 - Folklore in the Classroom

3 Credit(s)

Regarded as one of the highest interest and strongest of interdisciplinary subjects, folklore has tremendous potential in today’s classroom regardless of grade level or content area. After having defined folklore and its four major divisions—oral narrative, belief systems, material culture, and popular culture—attention will be given to the adaptation of folkloric material to each teacher’s area of concentration. The end result will be another curricular tool that can be used to instruct, enrich, further expand, and instill curiosity in the given academic discipline and grade level. Ethnographic field research, folk resources, interview and field methods, and assessing folk from “fake” material will be thoroughly explored.