Loretto Elementary students demonstrating folk traditions

Elementary schools

Games

Education

Demonstrations

String figures

Play

Hand-clapping games

Students

Twenty-seven color slides. Students demonstrating their own folklore: clapping and string games, and sharing family heirlooms. The Folk Arts in Education Project in Duval County was a joint venture between the Duval County School System and the Florida Folklife Program. It was started in 1984 by folklorist David Taylor with funding from the National Endowment for the Arts to add to existing social studies curriculum. The project consisted of field research to identify local traditions and folk artists, a series of five two-day seminars to acquaint teachers with the use of folklore and folk arts,and in-school programs conducted by a folklorist and traditionalist, which included visits by local folk artists. Taylor ran it until 1986. In 1988, Gregory Hansen re-initiated it with minor changes.

State Archives of Florida, Series S1577

1985-02-27

Florida Folklife Program

slides (photographs)

Still Image

S1577

v. 39

C86-4375 - S86-4401

Duval County Folk Arts in Education Project

Taylor, David, 1951-

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