You Can't Padlock an Idea by Stephen A. Schneider

These programs not only taught social movement participants how to create plays, newspapers, citizenship schools, and songs, they also helped the participants frame the problems they faced as having solutions based in collective democratic action. Specifically he focuses on four of the school's more established programs: labor drama, labor journalism, citizenship education, and music. Schneider studies how Highlander's educational programs contributed to this broader goal of encouraging social action. He shows how the school focused on developing forms of collective rhetorical action, helped students frame social problems as spurs to direct action, and situated education as an agency for organizing and mobilizing communities. Schneider reconstructs the pedagogical theories and rhetorical practices developed and employed at Highlander. Drawing on the Highlander archives housed at the Wisconsin Historical Society, the Avery Research Center in South Carolina, and the Highlander Research and Education Center in Tennessee, Stephen A. To this end Horton and the school's staff involved themselves in the labor and civil rights disputes that emerged across the south over the next three decades. Founded in 1932 by educator Myles Horton, the Highlander Folk School sought to address the economic and political problems facing communities in Appalachian Tennessee and other southern states.

You Can't Padlock an Idea examines the educational programs undertaken at the Highlander Folk School in Tennessee and looks specifically at how these programs functioned rhetorically to promote democratic social change. Conclusion: Rhetorical Education as an Agency for Social Change.

CHAPTER 5: Music Education: Framing Processes as Direct Action.

CHAPTER 4: Literacy Education: Citizenship Schools and Community Organization.

CHAPTER 3: Labor Journalism: Shop Papers, Yearbooks, and Collective Identity.

CHAPTER 2: Labor Drama: From Collective Action to Collective-Action Frames.

CHAPTER 1: The Kairos of Educational Opportunity: The Development of the Highlander Idea.

Introduction: The Highlander Folk School, Movement Halfway Houses, and Rhetorical Education.

Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.

You Can't Padlock an Idea by Stephen A. Schneider