Teaching with Folk Sources

Sponsored by the Folklore and Education Section.

From hip hop narratives to veterans’ oral histories, and from teaching with sound to identifying bias in the archive, Local Learning has worked collaboratively with partners across the nation to use American Folklife Center collections of the Library of Congress to engage, inspire, and inform learners through their Teaching with Primary Sources (TPS) program. TPS is the Library of Congress’ premier educational program, focused on helping educators enhance students’ critical thinking, analysis skills, and content knowledge using the Library’s collections of millions of digitized primary sources. The Local Learning project team offers teaching tools and materials that engage the digitally available archival holdings of the American Folklife Center of the Library of Congress alongside local and regional collections, bringing them into conversation with each other to create a fuller, more complex narrative of American communities, history, and people.

Register at https://locallearningnetwork.org/teaching-with-folk-sources