Erna Parpard demonstrating German folk arts

Embroiderers

Needleworkers

Fieldwork

Embroidery

Knitting

Schools

Elementary schools

Teaching of folklore

Education

Demonstrations

Classrooms

German Americans

Children

Students

Seven color slides. Parpard grew up in Heidelburg, Germany, where she learned traditional German embroidery from her mother and grandmother. For the class, she also demonstrated cooking and knitting. The Folk Arts in Education Project in Palm Beach County was a joint venture between the Palm Beach County School System and the Florida Folklife Program. It was conducted between 1986 and 1987 by folklorist Jan Rosenberg with funding from the National Endowment for the Arts to add to existing social studies curriculum. The goal was to impart an appreciation of multi-ethnic traditions and provide a sense of place to the mobile student population. The project focused on the Florida Studies component for fourth grade students. The project consisted of field research to identify local traditions and folk artists, a series of five two-day seminars to acquaint teachers with the use of folklore and folk arts, in-school programs conducted by a folklorist and traditionalist, which included visits by local folk artists. In total, the project involved 15 schools with 779 students.

State Archives of Florida, Series S1685

1986-12-08

Florida Folklife Program

Meadow Park Elementary School ( West Palm Beach, Fla.)

slides (photographs)

Still Image

S1685

v. 9

Palm Beach County Folk Arts in Education Project

Rosenberg, Jan

Parpard, Erna Barara Baumann, 1913-1997

German American

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