{"product_id":"through-the-schoolhouse-door","title":"Through the Schoolhouse Door","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe creative traditions and expressive culture of students' families,  neighborhoods, towns, religious communities, and peer groups provide  opportunities to extend classrooms, sustain learning beyond school  buildings, and better connect students and schools with their  communities. Folklorists and educators have long worked together to  expand curricula through engagement with local knowledge and informal  cultural arts-folk arts in education is a familiar rubric for these  programs-but the unrealized potential here, for both the folklore  scholar and the teacher, is large. The value folklorists \"place on the  local, the vernacular, and the aesthetics of daily life does not  reverberate\" throughout public education, even though, in the words of  Paddy Bowman and Lynne Hamer, \"connecting young people to family and  community members and helping them to develop self-identity are vital to  civic well-being and to school success.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThrough the Schoolhouse Door\u003c\/i\u003e offers a collection of  experiences from exemplary school programs and the analysis of an expert  group of folklorists and educators who are dedicated not only to  getting students out the door and into their communities to learn about  the folk culture all around them but also to honoring the culture  teachers and students bring to the classroom.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Paddy Bowman","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54281575465252,"sku":"9780874218596","price":23.95,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0880\/7635\/3828\/files\/CoreSourceHub_6858a51d-6a39-4976-93c2-5193f944969f.jpg?v=1780557889","url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.co.uk\/products\/through-the-schoolhouse-door","provider":"IndiePubs UK","version":"1.0","type":"link"}