The Education Volume - FOLKLIFE Magazine

For the learners. The listeners. The nature stewards. The self-taught, and the still curious.

This volume of FOLKLIFE looks beyond the classroom and into the spaces where learning takes shape: around kitchen tables, in workshops and gardens, across generations, and deep within ourselves. From makers teaching by example to those reshaping how knowledge is shared, this volume honours learning as a lifelong practice.

It celebrates the teachers who don’t wear titles, the classrooms without walls, and the wisdom passed down through hands-on experience and shared stories. It’s about the many ways we come to know—through books, through doing, through community, and through paying attention.

Inside, you’ll find reflections on learning, grounded in community and craft. From artists and farmers to elders and children, this volume highlights voices who teach through how they live—and those who are still learning as they go.

In these pages:

• Conversations with makers and mentors on what it means to share knowledge
• Essays on tradition, transformation, and how we carry what we learn
• Photography that captures learning in motion—on land, at home, in practice
• Stories that ask not what we know, but how we come to know it

Printed on our signature matte pages, this volume is an ode to schooling and unschooling, and the many paths it can take. Whether you’re a student of life or someone who’s found wisdom in the weeds, there’s something here for you.

A companion for the curious, wherever you are on the path.