Jan Rosenberg, Ph.D

New in 2004: The Heritage Education Resources blog

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A HER report.

Professional Experience

1995-now: Founder and President, Heritage Education Resources, Inc. Responsible for the development and provision of resource materials and services devoted to the exploration of heritage and cultural diversity.
Current Project. These Are Our Stories. A documentation project highlighting the narratives of abuse and survival of women in north Florida. Plans for this project are to produce an anthology of the stories for use in the college classroom and in the community.
2002-2003. Contract. Project Director. Calhoun County Folklife. Coordination and execution of a photography exhibit highlighting traditional culture in Calhoun County, Florida. A partnership with the Panhandle Pioneer Settlement.
1999-2000. Project. Southern Journeys. An 11 –state fieldwork project exploring concepts of home in the South.
1999. Contract. National Faculty. Conducted five-day teacher workshop in the Louisiana Delta. Focus of workshop was on using folk cultural resources in the classroom.
1998. Contract. Research, writer, project coordination. Smithsonian Center for Folklife Programs and Cultural Studies. Video preparation and activity guide preparation for a video on learning about traditional culture in the Mississippi Delta. Winner of the 2002 Dorothy Howard Prize in Folklore and Education.
1998. Contract. State Arts Council of Oklahoma. Coordinated, with SACO, As We See It: Photographer' s views of the fence memorial surrounding the site of the Murrah Federal Building bombing.
1997. Contract. Project Director. East Texas Folk Arts in Education Project. Development and execution of school programs highlighting heritage in the Tyler, Texas Independent School District. A partnership with Documentary Arts, Inc. of Dallas.
1996. Coordinator. Miller County (AR) Conservation District. Coordinator of a rural initiative project focusing on county heritage programming.
1990-1996. Folklife Coordinator. TRAHC, the Texarkana Regional Arts and Humanities Council, Inc., PO Box 1171 Texarkana, AR/TX 75504 (903) 792-8681. Facilitated development of a folklife program for southwestern Arkansas to document, preserve, and present regional traditional culture.
1989. Contract Fieldworker. State Arts Council of Oklahoma. Jim Thorpe Building, Oklahoma City, OK. Documentation of traditional culture in the forest industry and planning for a folklife area at Traditions ' 89: A Celebration of Oklahoma Folklife.
1989. Contract Fieldworker. Georgia State Arts Council. Documentation of traditional arts in five southwest Georgia counties for a folklife festival held at Bagby State Park, Fort Gaines, Georgia.
1988. Contract Consultant. Southern Arts Federation. Consultancy to Chipola Junior College on its Rural Arts Initiative.
1988. Contract Fieldworker. Bureau of Florida Folklife Programs. 500 South Bronough St. Tallahassee, FL. Documentation of traditional culture in the forest industry.
1986-1988. Folklorist in Education. Bureau of Florida Folklife Programs. 500 South Bronough St., Tallahassee, FL. Development and implementation of a folklife in education program for 22 elementary schools in the Palm Beach County, Florida school district.
1985-1986. Folklorist/Archivist. Please Touch Museum for Children. 210 N.21st St. Philadelphia, PA 19103. Conducted research, documentation, and archival activity on children' s culture in Philadelphia.
1981-1986. Transcriber. Transcription of songs collected in Newfoundland, Labrador, and Quebec for Kenneth S. Goldstein, Department of Folklore and Folklife, University of Pennsylvania.
1980. Folklorist in Education, Dalton, PA school system.

Presentations

Current: Presentations on regional heritage to area and statewide service organizations.
2002-2003. Panhandle Folklife Days: A Celebration of Traditional Culture in the Florida Panhandle.
2002. Quilt Sharing Day. Panhandle Pioneer Settlement, Calhoun County, FL.
2002. 'Train Up a Child in the Way He Should Go: Folklore and Education in the History of American Education. 'American Folklore Society, Rochester, NY.
1999. 'It' s Something to Hold On To: The Murrah Memorial Fence.' American Folklore Society, Memphis, TN
1990-1995. Traditional Sacred Music Stage. Annual Quadrangle Festival fund raiser for the Texarkana Museum Systems.
1995. 'Folklore in Education and Progressive Education: An Overview.' Bank Street College of Education, New York City,
'The Only Language of Education.' American Folklore Society, Lafayette, LA
1994 'Folklore and Education: Models from the Past.' McKissick Museum, the University of South Carolina,
Folk Arts Demonstration Series, Texarkana Regional Arts and Humanities Council. Programs highlighting specific traditionally learned crafts.
1993 'Using Cultural Heritage in the Classroom.' Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, Harrisburg, PA.
'McRAT: Multicultural Reading and Thinking and Folk Arts in Education.' American Folklore Society, Eugene, OR
Exhibit: 'Needle Cloth and Time: A Celebration of Traditional Quiltmakers.' TRAHC, the Texarkana Regional Arts and Humanities Council.
'On Needs in Folk Arts in Education Programming.' National Endowment for the Arts, Washington, DC
'Intercultural Relations.' Red Rock Behavioral Health Services, Oklahoma City, OK.
1992 'A Tie That Binds: The Concept of Character Formation in Folk Arts in Education and the History of Education.' American Folklore Society, Jacksonville, FL
'The Art of Teaching Folk Arts.' Oklahoma Arts Institute, Oklahoma City, OK.
Workshop: 'Utilizing Folklife Resources in the Classroom.' Little Rock, Arkansas, Arkansas Social Studies Teachers Association.
Folklife Demonstrations for TRAHC Regional Arts Center Grand Opening.
'Using Folklife Resources in Family and Community Education.' Russellville, Arkansas, Arkansas Association for Family and Community Education state meeting.
1991. Concert: 'In the Tradition' TRAHC. Highlighting traditional music alive in southwestern Arkansas: Bluegrass, Sacred Harp, African American gospel, Southern Gospel, and Cowboy Poetry.
1990. 'A History Lesson in Folklore and Education: The Work of Dorothy Howard. American Folklore Society, Oakland,CA.
1989 Colloquium: 'Folklore and Education.' University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
'Presenting Jewish Folk Arts.' American Folklore Society, Philadelphia, PA. 'Jewish Women' s Traditions.' Bureau of Florida Folklife Programs Teacher Institute. Jacksonville, FL.
'Passing the Torch: Folklore and Community Based Education. American Folklore Society, Philadelphia, PA
'Guerrilla Fieldwork; Experiences in Contract Folklife Fieldwork.' Folklore Students Association, Bloomington, IN
1988 'Folklore and Education and Intercultural Education.' American Folklore Society, Boston, MA reprinted in Southern Folklore (48)1 pp. 47-56.
Workshop 'Children' s Folklore and the Elementary Art Curriculum.' School Board of Palm Beach County, West Palm Beach, FL
1987 Forum. Folk Arts in Education. American Folklore Society, Albuquerque, NM.
1986 'Approaching Children' s Experience by Being In-the-School' American Folklore Society, Cincinnati, OH.
1983. 'Becoming a Brick: Ethnography, History, and the Ecology of School and Play Space.' Anthropological Association for the Study of Play, Baton Rouge, LA

Publications

2003. Panhandle Folklife: A Teacher' s Guide. Panhandle Pioneer Settlement, Calhoun County, FL.
2002. Backyard Poetry Festival. A collection of poems and photographs. A collaborative effort between Heritage Education Resources and poet Electa Wiley of Hope, AR and Longmont, CO. Heritage Education Resources, Inc.
2000. Southern Journeys: Chronicles of Home (an on line publication) exploring concepts of home in 11 southern states. Tel Aviv, Ariga (www.ariga.com)
1998 Dimensions of Diversity: Explorations of Difference in an Arkansas Elementary School. Heritage Education Resources.
1997 Planting the Flag: An Introductory History of the Central Arkansas Development Council. Benton, AR: The Central Arkansas Development Council.
1996 Loyalty and Service, the Vision of a Century: State First National Bank – A Centennial Chronicle 1896-1996. Texarkana, AR: State First National Bank.
'Giving Honor to God, the Joy and Salvation in My Life: The Appreciation Service in Song.' In F.E. Abernathy, et al (eds) Juneteenth in Texas: Essays in African American Folklore: Denton: University of North Texas Press.
1995 'A Brief Chronicle of the Southwest Arkansas Water District.' Texarkana, AR: SWAWD, Review of Arkansas Folklore Sourcebook. Journal of American Folklore 108 (429) 378-81
TRAHC Folklife Study Guides. Texarkana, AR: TRAHC
A Guide to Folk Cultural Resources in Southwestern and Western Arkansas.' Texarkana, AR: TRAHC.
Folklife in Southwestern and Western Arkansas: A Sampler. Texarkana, AR: TRAHC
1994 'Folk Arts in Education in Southwestern Arkansas.' Arkansas Social Studies Teacher. Spring Issue.

1993 Folk Art Apprenticeships. Texarkana, AR: TRAHC. Review of Public Folklore. Arkansas Historical Quarterly 52(2) 193-194.
1991 'We' ve Been a Traditional Timber State: We Just Didn' t Realize It.' Oklahoma Folklife 3(1). Pp.1-3
1989 'Forest Traditions' with Deborah Fant, Patricia Sawin, and Riki Saltzman. Florida Folk Festival booklet.

Professional Affiliations

American Folklore Society
Folklore and Education Section of the American Folklore Society
National Network on Folk Arts in Education
Independent Folklorists Section of the American Folklore Society

Teaching Experience

1980 – Present. Presenter. Grades 4-12 in Arkansas, Florida, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, and Texas.
1985. Lecturer. Introduction to Folklore. University of Pennsylvania, Department of Folklore and Folklife.
1979-81. Teaching Fellow. University of Pennsylvania, Department of Folklore and Folklife and the Graduate School of Education.

Education

1984. PhD. University of Pennsylvania, Department of Folklore and Folklife. Dissertation: 'A Landscape of Enculturation: The Vernacular of Elementary School Buildings and Playgrounds.'
1981. MA. University of Pennsylvania, Department of Folklore and Folklife.
1978. BA. Indiana University. Major in Folklore, minor in Jewish Studies.