Nama : Alfian

NIM : 157835467 / P2TK

ACADEMIC SKILL
Lecturer: Ahmad Munir, Ph D

Write the assignment task

Discuss about the folklore in education: functions and approaches by society.

Analysis of the task

The study of folklore will observe, investigate, explore, define, redefine, and revisit the folklore in
education: functions and approaches by society.

The writer make analysis

Writer identifies four functions folklore in education are amuse, validate culture, educate and
maintain conformity

Response to the task

1. Going directly to library
2. Ask and discuss to friends
3. Analyse the task the folklore in education: functions and approaches

Temporary answer to the task

THE FUNCTIONS OF FOLKLORE IN EDUCATION
1. To instruct on how to act and live
2. To teach appropriate behavior
3. Transmit social value and knowledge
4. To increase knowledge and appreciation to a culture
5. To reinforce language learning and development.

THE APPROACHES FOLKLORE IN EDUCATION

1. To study folklore in school
2. To develop initially as part of a broader response to the misrepresentations of cultural
deprivation theory
3. To exemplify by Folk Art in Education (FAIE) and Folk Arts in Schools (FAIS) programs.
4. To analyzing folk genre
5. To involve students in analyzing politicians and other leaders rhetoric.

List of readings
REFERENCES
Bascom, William R. 1953. Folklore and anthropology. Journal of American Folklore 67:333-49.

Ben-Amos, D. 1972. Toward a Definition of Folklore in Context. In A. Paredes & R. Bauman (Eds.),

Toward new prespectives in folklore (pp.3-15). Austin: University of Texas Press for the American
Folklore society.

Botkin, B. 1938. The Folk and The Individual: Their creative reciprocity. The English Journal, 27, 21-35
Bowman, Paddy, & Hamer, Lynne M. 2011. Through the Schoolhouse Door : Folklore, Community,
Curriculum. Logan, Utah: Utah State University Press.