The AFS Fellows will present a webinar on Friday, February 6, 2026 at noon ET examining current ideas, trends, and methods in folklore and education. Spanning K-12 classrooms, museums, libraries, and other education settings, the methodologies of folklore in education bring critical thinking and key folklore skills to bear on complex challenges in contemporary culture and society.

Webinar participants will interact with their panel to consider the transmission of culture through informal and formal learning, while naming disruptive pedagogies that challenge normative approaches to arts-making practices and standardized, corporatized curricula. Student agency, educational sovereignty, and promoting well-being through strengthening student cultural identity and intercultural understanding are among the topics. The AFS Fellows invite you to engage and think with them during this critical time of education wars that affect all educational settings and all educators.