Critical Pedagogy and Teaching Russian Folklore

dc.contributor.authorStauffer, Rachelen
dc.date.accessioned2025-01-09T20:21:37Zen
dc.date.available2025-01-09T20:21:37Zen
dc.date.issued2024-11-20en
dc.description.abstractThis article describes rationales and methods for critical pedagogical approaches to teaching Russian folklore. Critical pedagogy and folklore are interrelated in their grassroots orientations, which critically counternarrate the top-down dominant and high cultural themes that are commonly taught in humanities survey courses on Russian literature and culture in postsecondary institutions. This article argues that critical approaches have the potential to more effectively affirm culturally, linguistically, and socioeconomically diverse identities for liberation, rather than indoctrination. The article discusses decolonization, excavating the field’s past to interrogate historical and ideological influences on the study of Russia and the Soviet Union in the United States. For practical application, the article provides examples of teaching commonly taught topics in Russian folklore classes in the United States. The author describes methods for teaching Russian laments [prichitanija], epics [byliny], and for teaching spiritual, verbal, and material culture pertaining to apiculture in Russian folklore, or “bee”lief.en
dc.description.versionPublished versionen
dc.format.extentPages 28-47en
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.17161/folklorica.v28i.23112en
dc.identifier.eissn1920-0242en
dc.identifier.issn1920-0234en
dc.identifier.orcidStauffer, Anna [0009-0000-0113-149X]en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10919/124059en
dc.identifier.volume28en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherThe University of Kansasen
dc.rightsIn Copyrighten
dc.rights.urihttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/en
dc.titleCritical Pedagogy and Teaching Russian Folkloreen
dc.title.serialFolkloricaen
dc.typeArticle - Refereeden
dc.type.dcmitypeTexten
dc.type.otherJournal Articleen
pubs.organisational-groupVirginia Techen
pubs.organisational-groupVirginia Tech/Liberal Arts and Human Sciencesen
pubs.organisational-groupVirginia Tech/Liberal Arts and Human Sciences/Modern and Classical Languages and Literaturesen

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