Performing the Personal in a State of Transition

Decorated Mortarboards

By Sheila Bock

Summary

This essay explores the ways in which individuals use a reflexive and playful genre of creative expression to fashion (quite literally) their personal engagement with the ideas of self, community, education, and the unknown future.
Citation:
Bock, Sheila. 2014. Performing the Personal in a State of Transition: Decorated Mortarboards. Journal of Folklore and Education. 1:34-38.