Embracing the Choque

Embracing the Choque

  Un choque. Choque pi ta pom ta ria. Choque pom. Pi ta. Pi pi pi ta. Ta ria. Choque pom. Ta ria ria pi ta ria ria pi ta ria ria pi ta choque pom. Pom pom. The onomatopoeia of the castañuelas speaks out. They are the disruptive force in the colonially induced quiet of...

Using Primary Sources to Foster Difficult Dialogues 

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...

Folklife Education

I work at the Folk Arts-Cultural Treasures Charter School (FACTS) in Philadelphia. New teachers coming to teach at our school are unlikely to have had any courses in folklife education in their preservice training, so we kick off new staff orientation with a day that...

Stumbling into Folklore

Featuring student work and reflections from Camryn Johnson, Haley Priest, Kennedy Johnson, Paxton Ballard, Madelyn LeDoux, Sierra Fox, and Anna Grace Franques Undergraduates in our Introduction to Public Speaking course share special objects and tell stories from...

Folklife Education

Standing on the threshold of the schoolhouse door surrounded by the flow of traffic moving between the community and the classroom, I notice a pile of what appear to be discards cast to the side outside the doorway. Much of the pile is community knowledge  and...