Ethnography of Children's Folklore

First presented in 1978 at the Colloquium on Ethnography and Education, which was hosted by Research for Better Schools, Inc. and the University of Pennsylvania, Bauman’s “Ethnography of Children’s Folklore” was also printed in Children In and Out of School: Ethnography and Education in 1982. Thank you to the Center for Applied Linguistics for permission to reprint in this Special Issue of Children’s Folklore Review. Via an examination of children’s folklore—including riddles, jokes, catches, and solicitational routines—Bauman’s article makes strong claims for the importance of ethnographic study of children’s folklore as a source of insight into the rich artistic, expressive competencies too frequently ignored by educators.