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Arukask, Madis – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2021
This article focuses on the concept of "letter" in oral folklore. The main research material is examples from the older folk songs of Seto, where a letter, a book and other items referring to literacy are mentioned. Texts under consideration are poetical and the meaning conveyed in them is not always very clear. The term…
Descriptors: Oral Tradition, Folk Culture, Mythology, Singing
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Hechter, Richard P. – Physics Education, 2020
'It is the belt!' This is how middle school teachers in a science teaching professional development program rationalized why they believe Orion is the most recognizable of all constellations in the night sky. It was from this foundation that we chose Orion to be the focus of a four-phase ethnoastronomy-based project reported here. Ethnoastronomy,…
Descriptors: Middle School Teachers, Science Teachers, Science Instruction, Faculty Development