Inside the classroom (and out) : how we learn through folklore /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Denton, TX :
University of North Texas Press,
©2005.
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| Series: | Publications of the Texas Folklore Society ;
62 |
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| Online Access: | http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=165628 |
Table of Contents:
- 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.