Objective of Folklore Foundation
- Explore local knowledge through documentation, cultural materials, performance and expressive tradition and disseminate them with critical research.
- Application of folklore for curriculum development, eco-literacy, and similar development activities.
- Sensitising teacher community on exploring local knowledge.
- Application of folklore for literacy, curriculum development, eco-literacy and environment education and similar development activities.
- Publication of periodicals and research books on Orissa folklore in Oriya and English language.
How does cultural knowledge and value diminishing day by day?
Today , the children and youths are in a moribond state by losing of their cultural knowledge and values.As we are moving towards the lifestyle that is based on corporate culture, individual identities, fragmentations, cyberspace and postmodernism, such community based values are fading away from our society. As a result, the folk forms, performances, rituals and practices which normally flourish under such values are also diminishing day by day.
What we achieved in 14 years
Converged with INTACH, IGNCA ,National Book Trust, India and Sahitya Academy
Members of folklore foundation have provided honorary support People's Linguistic Survey of India Odisha
Foundation has also the network of grass root folk and tribal community and organizations to guide and promote indigenous culture and knowledge
MEET OUR VOLUNTEERS
How are your donations being used?
- Empower the community organisations to link culture in school.
- To distribute books and study materials in schools.
- To help folk dancers, singers, event artists.
- Help children in schools to learn their language trough their culture.
- Help promoting indigenous knowledge for ecoliteracy.
Our Goals
- Document the rich oral tradition, texts and performance from the singers, story tellers and community at large to enrich the rich experiential knowledge of the community with that of the written culture and bridge the gap of cultural inequity.
- Conduct research and study critically to examine the public relevance of folklore and understand the dynamics of its creation, structure and function in a given socio- cultural context
- Promote the singers , story tellers and performers of folklore by honouring them and connecting them with the regional , national and international agencies for their professional growth
- Connect community knowledge with the academic knowledge to promote cognitive aspect of the children, students and scholars in schools and institutions
- Publish journal and books related to multifaceted aspects of folklore of India
- Apply folklore as a means of communication and knowledge in the development of literacy like Early Childhood Education, Primary Education, Multilingual Education Indigenous Education, Adult Continuing Education, Health Education, Environmental Education and Heritage Education.
- Convergence with National and international organizations/ institutions/ universities for promotion of folklore research through
- Set up of community digital archives in tribal areas to reduce the digital divide and promote education and cultural conservation through technological devices
- Provide the children with their stories through material development and storytelling festival, school museum, art and craft and traditional games in school
Your small donation can support the conservation of community’s culture where no support has been provided in remote tribal areas of Odisha.
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