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John E. Ford Elementary School's Traditional Culture Infusion project records, 1991-1993.
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Legislation in 1979 (79-322, SB 1208) transferred the Florida Folk Arts component of the Stephen Foster Memorial to the Florida Department of State. Operating as the Bureau of Florida Folklife Programs from ca. 1985 until 1995, the Bureau coordinated the annual Florida Folk Festival and directed such programs as Folk Arts Apprenticeships, Folk Arts in Education, Folk Heritage awards, annual research surveys, and numerous other projects and programs. From 1995 through June 30, 2021, the renamed and reorganized Florida Folklife Program continued the majority of these operations from within the Division of Historical Resources, Bureau of Historic Preservation in Tallahassee. During the 1995 reorganization, the State Archives of Florida acquired the Florida Folklife Collection from the Bureau of Florida Folklife Programs’ previously maintained Florida Folklife Archives. Legislation in 2021 (2021-71, L. O. F., HB 909) transferred the Florida Folklife Program and its operations from the Division of Historical Resources to the newly renamed Division of Arts and Culture, previously the Division of Cultural Resources, effective July 1, 2021. The program is charged to "identify, research, interpret, and present Florida folk arts, artists, performers, folklore, traditions, customs, and cultural heritage and make folk cultural resources and folklife projects available throughout the state."
The John E. Ford Elementary School's Traditional Culture Infusion Project was a program developed from the basis of Duval County's Folk Arts in Education program. The Duval County Folk Arts in Education Program was funded in 1984 through a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, and was continued through 1991. The John E. Ford Elementary School's project began in August of 1991, and refined the curriculum developed in the Duval County Folklife in Education Program by expanding the materials to all grade levels in the school. The project infused cultural recourses into the school's language arts, social studies, art, and science curricula through two-week units on traditional culture and supplemental resources. The three-phase project ran from 1991-1993, with the goal of providing students an opportunity to appreciate their own culture and to respect others.
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This series consists of the 1991-1992 annual report for the John E. Ford Elementary School's Traditional Culture Infusion Project and the teacher's guide for the program. The annual report covers all aspects of the project, including the project's history, activities, the demonstrators list, media coverage, student evaluations summary, teacher evaluations summary, and suggested revisions for 1992-1993.
Also included is the teacher guide for the project, which includes the program introduction, approaches to multicultural education, models for coordinating the program, infusing folklife in multicultural education, goals for the program (separated by grade level from kindergarten through fifth grade), coordinating sessions with tradition-bearers, reading book correlations for grades two through five, and bibliographies.
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For records associated with the Duval County Folk Arts in Education program, which served as the basis for the John E. Ford Elementary School's program, see S1618, Duval County Folk Arts in Education project files. For associated photographs, see S1577, photographs and slides of folk arts, artisans, and performers.
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Florida Folklife Program
Education Curricula Florida Education Florida Folklife. Folklore and education Florida
Duval County (Fla.)
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