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Myles Horton and the Highlander Folk School

Myles Horton and the Highlander Folk School. Cory Buterbaugh. Family and Education. Born in a log cabin near Savannah, Tennessee in 1905 Parents were schoolteachers Socially active Left home at15 to attend high school.

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Myles Horton and the Highlander Folk School

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  1. Myles Horton and the Highlander Folk School Cory Buterbaugh

  2. Family and Education • Born in a log cabin near Savannah, Tennessee in 1905 • Parents were schoolteachers • Socially active • Left home at15 to attend high school • Attended Cumberland University, the University of Chicago, and the Union Theological Seminary • Went to Denmark to see their Folk Schools • Opened the Southern Mountains School in 1932

  3. Life Work A summer job led to what would become his life’s work In Denmark, Horton focused on a specific project: creating a school for life. His idea became the Highlander Folk School Highlander was the education arm of the Congress of Industrial Organizations in the South (1930s) and a proponent of racial desegregation The Highlander Research and Education Center continues today

  4. Socio-cultural Context Began during the Great Depression Continued at a time in our nation’s history of great racial prejudice Horton once claimed he held the record for continuous civil disobedience

  5. Horton’s Key Contributions Everything that the Highlander Folk School stood for: • Educating rural and industrial leaders • for “a new social order” • Citizenship Schools • Education for social justice • Progressive labor • movement • Civil rights for all

  6. Learner Needs At first, learners at the Highlander schools needed to be organized (unemployed/ employed workers) Later, learners needed to know how to organize and how to gain their rights Today, Highlander focuses on giving workshops on economic human rights and globalization issues in Appalachian areas They all needed to know their rights and how to make sure they and others get what they deserved

  7. Myles Horton’s Impact • Not only did he give adults the chance to fight for social justice, he gave them a place to learn necessary skills • One of the first desegregated adult education enterprises • Education for a more complete democracy “We believe that education leads to action”

  8. Relation to CAE 213 The Learner’s Need to Know- these learners are deeply invested in their learning; Horton raised consciousness of social injustice, deepening their need to know Motivation to Learn- the most powerful motivators are job satisfaction, self-esteem and quality of life. Horton targeted improvement in these areas

  9. References http://www.highlandercenter.org/pdf-files/horton-hrec-timeline-final02.pdf http://nlu.nl.edu/academics/cas/ace/resources/myleshorton.cfm http://education.stateuniversity.com/pages/2072/Horton-Myles-1905-1990.html#ixzz1J9D3hoQl Hannah Johnson’s handout! 

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