Teaching for Equity: The Role of Folklore in a Time of Crisis and Opportunity
Journal of Folklore and Education
About This Volume
This issue speaks directly to the national crisis of equity, representation, and access in our zip codes and our cultural and educational institutions. Folklore includes the traditions, arts, and stories that make cultural communities unique and strengthen social bonds within our communities. The tools of folklore—such as observation, identifying important traditions and rituals, and deep listening to diverse narratives through interviews and ethnographic fieldwork—create opportunities for addressing significant social justice questions because the study of folklore and folklife centers students’ linguistic, cultural, social, and racial pluralities. The terms “inclusion,” “diversity,” “equity,” and “access” are often used to critique privilege and hierarchy to address long-term effects of infrastructural and lived inequity. Yet as buzzwords these terms sometimes mask inaction and perpetuation of the status quo. This special issue of JFE asks how folklore and paying close attention to culture in our learning spaces can equip educators with tools and resources to engage more fully diverse students and audiences
Articles
Folk Culture: A Vessel for Equity in Education
We Are All Essential: Is the Heart the Last Frontier?
A Note on the Pedagogy of Equity
Documenting Power, Beauty, and Responsibility in Action
Revitalizing Folk Art within the Community
Shifting Paradigms Toward Equity: Infusing Folklore and Critical Multicultural Knowledge into a Teacher Education Class
Ago/Ame: Co-Teaching Community Cultural Knowledge with a Local Expert
Let's stand together, rep my tribe forever: Teaching Toward Equity through Collective Songwriting at the Yakama Nation Tribal School
A Focus on Folklife: Fostering Cultural Equity at HistoryMiami Museum
Untold Stories, Unsung Heroes: Using Visual Narratives to Resist Historical Exclusion, Exoticization, and Gentrification in Boston Chinatown
Denying Black Girlhood: Racialized Listening Practices in the Elementary Classroom
The Ohio Field School: A Collaborative Model for University-Community Research
The Stories We Tell: Disrupting the Myth of Neutrality in Math through Counternarratives
Journal of Folklore and Education 2020 Reviews
Key Themes in This Issue
Identity, Community, NarrativeThe Journal of Folklore and Education (ISSN 2573-2072) is a peer-reviewed, open-access journal published annually by Local Learning: The National Network for Folk Arts in Education. JFE publishes work that uses ethnographic approaches to tap the knowledge and life skills of students, their families, community members, and educators in K-12, college, museum, and community education.