Kid Culture: Neighborhood Exploration Through Enrichment Clusters

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Kathryn A. McCormick

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Public school calendars of cultural and historical events are a resource for those who want to view cultural exchange at work. Urban environments give students the opportunity to understand folklore through connecting to their neighborhood and describing their experiences. A 2007 enrichment project at P.S. 261 in Brooklyn, New York introduced local lore and solicited students’ responses to literature, visual presentations, and neighborhood walks in a study of their own neighborhood. Students were encouraged to record with all of their senses, cognitive mapping, interviewing, photographing, diagramming, and planning food tasting to relate their experiences in their neighborhoods.

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