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Summary:

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.

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.

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Contributors:

Untiedt, Kenneth L., 1966- , editor

Texas Folklore Society , issuing body, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/isb

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Other Related Resources:

Print version: Inside the classroom (and out) (Denton, TX : University of North Texas Press, ©2005 — ISBN 1574412027; LCCN 2005017061; OCLC Number 60741983)

Related Series:

Publications of the Texas Folklore Society; no. 62

Subjects:

Folklore and education — United States

Folklore and education

United States

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on: Online resource; title from PDF title page (Portal to Texas History, viewed April 14, 2017).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 322 pages) : illustrations.

Digital Characteristics:

text file

Call Numbers:

GR1 .T4 no.62 2005eb

ISBNs:

1574412027 (cloth, alk. paper) [Invalid]
9781574412024 (cloth, alk. paper) [Invalid]

OCLC Numbers:

935264058
71248442 [Invalid]