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Bogan, Margaret B. – Online Submission, 2011
This paper is in part, a reflective analysis of 15 years living with the state-recognized Florida Creek Indians of the Central Florida Muskogee Creek Tribe and the Pasco Band of Creek Indians, formally of Lacoochee, FL and currently in Brooksville, FL, respectively. It addresses the power structures within tribal organizations. Selected Creek…
Descriptors: Oral Tradition, American Indian Education, Acculturation, Ecology
Rosenberg, Jan – 1996
This paper discusses the concept of character formation as it can be positively impacted by folk arts in education. A long-standing tradition in U.S. education is for the teacher to take a leading role in molding the character of young people, as outlined through the years by such scholars as Thomas Jefferson, Horace Mann, and Rachel Davis DuBois.…
Descriptors: Art Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Ethical Instruction, Ethnography
Bucuvalas, Tina – 1988
Folklore and folk arts encompass the body of traditional knowledge learned and artifacts produced outside of formal institutions as a result of participation in folk groups. A great portion of daily life and culture is folk. Folklore and folk arts acquire distinctly local characteristics through the influences of geography, history, or talented…
Descriptors: Cultural Context, Cultural Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Folk Culture