Folklife Education

by | Sep 6, 2023

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

by | Aug 30, 2021

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

by | Aug 30, 2021

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...

Denying Black Girlhood

by | Sep 9, 2020

Racialized Listening Practices in the Elementary Classroom by Kennedi Alexis Johnson In April of 2017, I was in my third month of student teaching in a general music classroom. At this point in the semester, I taught all classes—three sections each of kindergarten...

Ago/Ame

by | Sep 8, 2020

  As the field of education offers more inclusive learning environments for students from different backgrounds—for example, cultural, socioeconomic, and neurological, to name a few—providing  alternative education models challenges the “one-size-fits-all”...