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Download or read book A Teacher's Guide to Folklife Resources for K-12 Classrooms written by Peter Bartis and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Designed to aid teachers in the classroom, this guide provides a list of materials recently prepared for the kindergarten through grade 12 classroom by folklorists and other cultural studies specialists in closely related fields and includes a selected list of agencies with established commitments to folklife programming. After a definition of folklife and a description of the American Folklife Center, a listing of 98 resources for folklife in education provide brief summaries, addresses, and ordering information. In addition, other resource items such as documentary videos and sound recordings are available through a list of 10 catalogs. A selected list of agencies with folklife programs includes: (1) six national programs; (2) five regional programs; and (3) 99 state and community-based programs. (CK)