Inside the classroom (and out) : how we learn through folklore / edited by Kenneth L. Untiedt. [print]

Includes bibliographies and index.

I. The Early Years -- -- Folklore in a literate society / Mody C. Boatright -- Folklore 101 / Cynthia Savage -- The Faultless Starch library / Ellisene Davis -- Day care oral traditions and school yard games / Tierney Untiedt -- You can tell a scout from Texas / Rebecca Matthews -- It all depends on the teacher : Classroom resources in Texas country schools / Lou Rodenberger -- Folklore in schools : Connections between folklore and education / Barbara Morgan-Fleming -- -- II. High School Years -- -- Knowledge about folk medicine among students in Alice High School / Elizabeth Galindo -- School yearbooks : Time capsules of Texas folklore / Jean Granberry Schnitz -- Two-bits, four-bits, or High school cheerleading as a lay folk ritual / Ernest B. Speck -- Seeing red over Varsity blues / Ty Cashion -- -- III. A Tribute to Paul Patterson -- -- 'Jes Sir, "Meester Patternson" : The legendry of a master / Ernestine P. Sewell -- Paul Patterson / Elmer Kelton -- Paul Patterson, master teacher / Evelyn Stroder -- A Pecos pilgrim's progress : The prose narratives of Paul Patterson / Lawrence Clayton -- -- IV. College Years -- -- Small-town Texas wisdom / J.G. "Paw-Paw" Pinkerton -- Aggie incredibles / Palmer Henry Olsen -- Peas in the family / Charles Chupp -- College rodeo cowgirls : From queen to contestant to coach / Sylvia Mahoney -- Ghosts, goblins, virgins, and other supernatural creatures : Ghost stories at Texas Tech University and South Plains College / Mike Felker -- -- V. Language and Study -- -- Popular English usage in Texas, or How you're s'posed to talk / Robert Duncan -- Talking fancy / James Ward Lee -- Folk use of mnemonics / Jerry Crouser -- Some aspects of language in selected cowboy poetry / Mary Jane Hurst -- Some past directions of narrative-folklore study / James T. Bratcher.

Examines folklore and its many roles in education. Several articles explore teaching in rural school houses in the early twentieth century, while others provide insight into more serious academic scholarship in the field of folklore itself.

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