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By Stephen A. Schneider

ISBN-10: 1611173817

ISBN-13: 9781611173819

You Can’t Padlock an concept examines the academic courses undertaken on the Highlander people tuition in Tennessee and appears particularly at how those courses functioned rhetorically to advertise democratic social switch. based in 1932 via educator Myles Horton, the Highlander folks university sought to deal with the industrial and political difficulties dealing with groups in Appalachian Tennessee and different southern states. To this finish Horton and the school’s employees concerned themselves within the exertions and civil rights disputes that emerged around the south over the subsequent 3 decades.

Drawing at the Highlander data housed on the Wisconsin old Society, the Avery examine middle in South Carolina, and the Highlander learn and schooling heart in Tennessee, Stephen A. Schneider reconstructs the pedagogical theories and rhetorical practices built and hired at Highlander. He exhibits how the varsity considering constructing types of collective rhetorical motion, helped scholars body social difficulties as spurs to direct motion, and located schooling as an employer for organizing and mobilizing communities.

Schneider reviews how Highlander’s academic courses contributed to this broader objective of encouraging social motion. particularly he specializes in 4 of the school’s extra validated courses: exertions drama, hard work journalism, citizenship schooling, and tune. those courses not just taught social circulate contributors how one can create performs, newspapers, citizenship faculties, and songs, in addition they helped the members body the issues they confronted as having options established in collective democratic motion. Highlander’s courses thereby functioned rhetorically, insofar as they supplied scholars with the capability to outline and remodel oppressive social and fiscal stipulations. by way of offering scholars with the capacity to realize social difficulties and with the cultural corporations (theater, journalism, literacy, and tune) to handle those difficulties at once, Highlander supplied a huge version for realizing the relationships connecting schooling, rhetoric, and social change.

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