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Slate, Nico – History of Education Quarterly, 2022
Scholars have demonstrated that a range of institutions, organizations, and "social movement schools" aimed to advance the civil rights movement through education. What remains unclear is how those institutions balanced conversation, direct instruction, role-play, and other pedagogical methods. This article focuses on the Highlander Folk…
Descriptors: Civil Rights, Folk Schools, Social Change, Role Playing
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Levine, David P. – History of Education Quarterly, 2004
This essay focuses on the formative years of the Citizenship Training Program as a Highlander project in the Charleston area. Informally known as Citizenship Schools, this adult education program began in 1958 under the sponsorship of Tennessee's Highlander Folk School, which handed over to the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) in…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Literacy Education, Freedom, Adult Education