Best practices of teaching traditional beliefs using Korean folk literature

Teaching the Library: Best Practices

Whether it is called bibliographic instruction, library instruction, or an information literacy program, the teaching of library and research skills to college students at both the undergraduate and graduate levels is a hot topic. There is much debate both in the literature and in the classroom about how best to engage the students’ attention and ensure that they understand what is being taught...

Folk Practices in Punjab

This essay serves as an introduction to the folk practices and beliefs of East Punjab. It argues that although there are clear religious identities established by the major organized religions, this does not preclude participation in other practices which cut across these boundaries. These “folk” practices and beliefs cluster around the anxieties and ambiguities of death, common understandings ...

Adverse events attributed to traditional Korean medical practices: 1999-2010.

OBJECTIVE To investigate adverse events attributed to traditional medical treatments in the Republic of Korea. METHODS Adverse events recorded in the Republic of Korea between 1999 and 2010 - by the Food and Drug Administration, the Consumer Agency or the Association of Traditional Korean Medicine - were reviewed. Records of adverse events attributed to the use of traditional medical practice...

Folk beliefs of cultural changes in China

For the last several decades, Chinese society has experienced transformative changes. How are these changes understood among Chinese people? To examine this question, Part 1 in this research solicited folk beliefs of cultural change from a group of Chinese participants in an open-ended format, and the generated folk beliefs were rated by another group of participants in Part 2 to gage each beli...

African folk medicine. Practices and beliefs of the Bambara and other peoples