Journal of Folklore and Education 2023 Reviews

by | Sep 17, 2023

Wait Five Minutes: Weatherlore in the Twenty-First Century. Shelley Ingram and Willow G. Mullins, eds. (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2023, 324 pp.) Kara Rogers Thomas is Professor of Sociology and Director of Folklore and Folklife Studies at Frostburg...

Digging for Gold

by | Sep 17, 2023

Getting to the earliest sources of traditional Cajun and Creole songs is a veritable mutual obsession for Ann Savoy and me. We are friends and bandmates in the Magnolia Sisters, the premier all-women’s Cajun band from South Louisiana.  A song collector, musician,...

Using Primary Sources to Foster Difficult Dialogues 

by | Sep 16, 2023

With candidates screaming at political opponents on the television and state legislatures across the country introducing or passing laws on how teachers speak about race and racism (Schwartz 2021), students in K–12 Social Studies classrooms need effective models of...

All About Us

by | Sep 16, 2023

Note About This Unit: Our other units are particularly geared toward middle and high school courses. This unit reminds us that younger grade levels can also discover, interpret, and represent new learning through primary sources. Starting with themselves, students...

Thinking Geographically with Museum Collections

by | Sep 16, 2023

Thinking Geographically with Museum Collections is a lesson activity by Michelle Kelly that encourages students to think about migration and its effects on individuals, communities, and places while also reflecting on their family stories of migration. Using primary...