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Iowa Folklife: Our People, Communities and Traditions
The Iowa Arts Council announces a revised and updated version of the folklife curriculum: Iowa Folklife: Our People, Communities and Traditions now online at http://fp.uni.edu/iowaonline/folklife. The site includes an online learning guide which includes downloadable lessons, audio, videos, links and support materials. Iowa Folklife: Our People, Communities and Traditions is also available in hard copy at all Iowa junior and senior high schools, senior citizens centers, Iowa college and university history and education departments, State Library and the State Historical Society of Iowa Library.
Culture,
history, art and music are created every day in the lives of Iowans - among
students, within their families and across their communities. The folklife
curriculum encourages students to actively examine Iowa’s folklife
by conducting interviews, documenting family and community traditions, learning
from senior citizens and learning from cultural practitioners in and out
of the classroom.
The Iowa Arts Council is grateful to the University of Northern Iowa and the Department of Cultural Affairs Heritage Fund for making this online resource possible,as well as to the original funding and creative partners, the Smithsonian Institution, the Iowa Sesquicentennial Commission, Pioneer Hi-Bred International, and the State Historical Society of Iowa.
The lessons and support materials may be copied for educational purposes only; materials may not be copied and resold for profit.
Also look for Iowa Folklife, Volume II: Cultural Express: Traditional
Arts on Tour in late 2008.
