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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Myles Horton"”.
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Historical Study of the Highlander Method: Honing Leadership for Social Justice.
… and delves into participant assessment of Myles Horton as a charismatic leader. Although a variety of sources mention Highlander School or Myles Horton, little material exists that examines the relationship, if any, between the pedagogy or methodology used at Highlander and the leadership …
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Faith in Action: The First Citizenship School on Johns Island, South Carolina.
… Johns Islanders, Esau Jenkins, Septima Clark, Myles Horton, Bernice Robinson, and the Highlander Folk School all collaborated to create this school. Why and how this success was reached is the main scope of this manuscript. Emphasis is also placed on the school's impact upon the modern Civil …
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Educating for social change: The history of the Mississippi Freedom Schools, 1932-1964
… and political context. My analysis begins with Myles Horton, a radical educator in Tennessee who first articulated his notion of education for social change in the late 1920s, and it concludes in 1964 during the height of the Civil Rights Movement. This historical analysis examines the following …
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Educating for freedom: the Highlander Folk School in the Civil Rights Movement, 1954 to 1964
… pioneered in the mid-1950’s by Septima Clark and Myles Horton of the Highlander Folk School. Horton and Clark developed a successful curriculum structure for adult literacy and citizenship education that they implemented on Johns Island off the coast of South Carolina. The popularity of the …
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Toward Better Knowledge: A Social Epistemology of Pragmatic Nonviolence
… generates better knowledge. The views of Myles Horton and Bob Moses are considered at length.
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Beyond hope: Rhetorics of mobility, possibility, and literacy
… critical literacy: Mike Rose, Paulo Freire, and Myles Horton, all highly respected literacy teachers whose working-class backgrounds influenced their commitment to teaching in disenfranchised communities. In chapter 3, “Reading Lives on the Boundary,” I demonstrate how Mike Rose’s 1989 …