User Guide to Teaching with Folk Sources

by | Sep 16, 2023

Teaching with Folk Sources offers an inquiry-based set of lessons and learning activities. We define some frequently used terms highlighted in green throughout this introduction. Ethnography: A study of culture and cultural processes that uses multiple ways to...

Teaching with Folk Sources Project Introduction

by | Sep 16, 2023

The genesis of Teaching with Folk Sources was galvanized by a desire to bridge a gap. Documents and materials of folklife centers and programs, specifically their oral history interviews, are typically underused in classroom learning. This was certainly true for...

Connecting Themes and Stories

by | Sep 16, 2023

Introduction The West Virginia Folklife Collection housed at West Virginia University Libraries holds over 2,500 items of documented fieldwork produced by the West Virginia Folklife Program, a project of the West Virginia Humanities Council. Digital and publicly...

Ethnographic Collections in the Classroom

by | Sep 16, 2023

Introduction: Archives and the Culturally Responsive Classroom Instructors of Language Arts, History, and Social Studies in the United States are tasked with helping their pupils compare perspectives across time and space. They must teach students how to locate and...

OurStoryBridge

by | Sep 16, 2023

For thousands of years tribal elders would sit down with the children and tell them stories. The stories were always the same, there was never a word out of place. It had to be that way, it had to be accurate.   Darren Parry, author of  “History and Perspective” and...