Cultural Frameworks for Transformative Documenting and Learning
“Storytelling is pedagogy. To inherit culture in the digital age is to honor tradition while embracing innovation, to archive the past while imagining futures, and to make learning a process of shared transformation.”
— Los Herederos, Guest Editors
From teaching with AI to museum curation animated with augmented reality, and from the analog zine to a digital documentation student project, this issue offers educators case studies, activities, and creative entry points to engage the art of documentation in our learning spaces.
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As the flagship journal for Folklore and Education, JFE annually publishes outstanding content from authors who know the value of teaching local knowledge, art, stories, and culture.
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2027 Call for Submissions
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Submissions portal now closed for JFE 2026, Teaching with Monsters: From Whimsy to Shadow, with Guest Editors Camille Maria Acosta and Sheila Bock