"folk knowledge" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It refers to knowledge or information that is passed down within a society or community through oral tradition and cultural practices rather than through formal education or written sources. Example: "The locals relied heavily on their folk knowledge of medicinal plants to treat common ailments."
It's the sort of folk knowledge that isn't quite science and isn't quite superstition either.
This study was therefore designed to gather primary folk knowledge on the different ABT used by Mauritians.
They speak in Spanish, and share folk knowledge about plants -- how juniper fights viruses and periwinkle cancer.
But most are like Easter eggs hidden across the landscape, their locations folk knowledge passed along as oral tradition.
The purpose of this study was designed to gather primary folk knowledge on different animal based therapies used by Malayalis in Pachamalai hills.
Little, however, is known about CAM usage among nurses from Hong Kong who while of Chinese origin, are educated in western medical principles while exhibiting both folk knowledge and lay use of CAM in their daily lives.
This is definitely a challenge in the corporate world, where senior marketing folks' knowledge of social media typically doesn't extend further than reading articles about it and seeing their kids use it.
The prevalence of folk-knowledge and gaining advice from others, as well as an apparent dependency on assistance from those who can offer feedback was observed.
In the cases above, this folk-knowledge can be seen to disrupt the flow of washback: Instead of focusing on their weaker, productive skills, which have equal weighting in the test, they instead focused on receptive skills, which they were already much stronger at.
Daubert accords to judicial folk-knowledge (i.e., cultural knowledge shared by judges) about the scientific process a privileged, almost insulated, position that it does not grant to the most eminent of expert witnesses.
"Ethnoveterinary medicine" is defined as being the study of folk beliefs, knowledge, skills, methods and practices on the part of practitioners concerned with the health care of animals (McCorkle, 1989).
