[Xmca-l] Re: The Highlander Center in Tennessee
Andy Blunden
ablunden@mira.net
Mon Sep 1 17:44:12 PDT 2014
Actually, Horton says that after a long time searching and travelling
and studying looking for a method or a way to do education for social
change, he eventually realised what he had to do - "The thing to do was
just find a place, move in and start and let it grow." He was lucky to
catch the eye of an elderly woman farmer who gave him a farmhouse in
Grundy County, Tennessee, so that was his beginning and the next 30 years.
Andy
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*Andy Blunden*
http://home.pacific.net.au/~andy/
Huw Lloyd wrote:
> Thanks for bringing the Highlander Center topic up, Andy.
>
> In addition to thinking about Peg's comment, one of things that struck me
> was the accord with Lefebvre's ideas in the production of space, i.e. new
> social relations calling for a new space.
>
> Best,
> Huw
>
>
> On 31 August 2014 15:58, mike cole <lchcmike@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>> Good luck, all.
>> Mike
>>
>> On Saturday, August 30, 2014, Andy Blunden <ablunden@mira.net> wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Helena Worthen and Greg Thompson have responded off-line, in addition to
>>> Robert Lake and you who proposed it, Mike. And Helena wants to involve
>>> someone on the Highlander faculty. When does a collaborative review
>>>
>> article
>>
>>> become a broth with too many cooks? Pretty soon I think.
>>> I will send a message to this group off-line to see if we can get a plan.
>>>
>>> Andy
>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>> *Andy Blunden*
>>> http://home.pacific.net.au/~andy/
>>>
>>>
>>> mike cole wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> I have heard no news of deadlines about an article of the sort I thought
>>>> Andy was suggesting. And it appears that at least Andy and Robert are
>>>> interested, and perhaps Henry? And?
>>>>
>>>> No centralized organization seems appropriate here. Those interested can
>>>> recognize themselves from the discussion and let the editors what
>>>>
>> emerges.
>>
>>>> The theme(s) is/are clearly generative of interest.
>>>> mike
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Sat, Aug 30, 2014 at 2:27 PM, Henry G. Shonerd III <
>>>>
>> hshonerd@gmail.com
>>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> Hi Robert and Andy,
>>>>> Taking a biographical perspective on a smaller scale, it's interesting
>>>>> that an Australian Vygotskian/Hegellian/dialectic scholar would find so
>>>>> interesting the civil rights work of a courageous Black woman, that a
>>>>> white
>>>>> professor who gets impetus for writing while in movement (as he
>>>>>
>> explains
>>
>>>>> in
>>>>> his letter to Vera) would have a thorough knowledge of her work, and
>>>>> that a
>>>>> Black scholar (Lisa Delpit), should be associated with the "dark side"
>>>>>
>> in
>>
>>>>> literacy for minorities. How pun-ishingly ironic, maybe at the heart of
>>>>> the
>>>>> dialectic? Does it make sense to see such "entanglements" as consonant
>>>>> with
>>>>> a fractal model of history and culture, fractal formations at any scale
>>>>> being "self similar" and complex. Surely dialect thinking and fractal
>>>>> thinking are blendable, just as science and art are blendable. I am
>>>>> thinking about Fauconnier and Turner (on blending), Cantor (on
>>>>>
>> fractals)
>>
>>>>> and articles by Andy on metaphor and narrative, romantic science and
>>>>>
>> the
>>
>>>>> interaction of conceptual and pre-conceptual thinking. One more
>>>>>
>> personal
>>
>>>>> anecdote ties in. Two weekends ago my wife and I had lunch with Vera
>>>>>
>> and
>>
>>>>> Ruben in Santa Fe. She talked about the creative "leap". In her 1985
>>>>> Notebooks of the Mind, Vera talks about "the joining of rapid bursts of
>>>>> thought with a regime of disciplined work". And finally, Anna Stetsenko
>>>>> in
>>>>> the the letters to Vera (Constructing a Community of Thought), argues
>>>>> that
>>>>> "Creativity…is an ineluctable feature of all and every person in their
>>>>> even
>>>>> utmost mundane activities and pursuits of everyday life." Vera and
>>>>> Vygotsky
>>>>> bring us creativity at all scales. Typically, "going to scale" means
>>>>> growth. Cancer is a growth. Destructive. Creativity is generative,
>>>>> nurturing. In all of this I find hope, which was got me into the xmca
>>>>> dialog in the first place.
>>>>> Henry
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Aug 29, 2014, at 7:43 AM, Robert Lake <boblake@georgiasouthern.edu>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi
>>>>>> Andy,
>>>>>> I am so glad you are intrigued by Septima's role in the formation of
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>> SNCC .
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> She was often overlooked in the chauvinist culture of the times (both
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>> white
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> and black) and that is why began researching her life. Most people see
>>>>>> recognize Rosa Parks and Ella Baker's role and later those who were
>>>>>> credited for the "Freedom School curriculum
>>>>>> ". If you look at Clark's life and the manner and content of what she
>>>>>> taught on John's Island and other parts of South Carolina,
>>>>>> you can easily recognize that her work was seminal in the formation
>>>>>>
>> of
>>
>>>>>>
>>>>> the
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> Freedom School Curriculum.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I have tried to get permission to reprint Septima's autobiography from
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>> her
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> family, but I have been unsuccessful. The book by Cynthia Brown
>>>>>>
>> *Ready
>>
>>>>>> from Within *has a lot of primary source interviews. Catherine Mellon
>>>>>> Charon's book, *Septima Clark: Freedom's Teacher *is richly detailed
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>> with
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> many interviews of her friends and documents from primary sources
>>>>>>
>> from
>>
>>>>>>
>>>>> the
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> University of Wisconsin Highlander collection.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Here is a link to a recorded interview with Septima that may be useful
>>>>>> to
>>>>>> you. I enjoyed hearing her voice at least.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> http://docsouth.unc.edu/sohp/G-0017/menu.html
>>>>>>
>>>>>> *Robert*
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Aug 29, 2014 5:05 AM, "Andy Blunden" <ablunden@mira.net> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> So you are placing Septima Clark right up there in importance,
>>>>>>>
>> Robert.
>>
>>>>>>> I am part way through a "chronicle" of Highlander, called
>>>>>>>
>> "Highlander.
>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>> No
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> Ordinary school, 1932-1962". It is very useful for me, so I can get
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> everything in sequence. So here I discovered that Septima Clark was
>>>>>>>
>> in
>>
>>>>>>> charge of the discussions with the students who later joined SNCC. So
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>> she
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> is coming into focus for me. I have just ordered two books on her,
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> including the one you recommended. Unfortuantely, an autobiography
>>>>>>>
>> she
>>
>>>>>>> wrote in 1962 seems to be out of print and entirely unavailable now.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Andy
>>>>>>> ------------------------------------------------------------
>>>>>>> ------------
>>>>>>> *Andy Blunden*
>>>>>>> http://home.pacific.net.au/~andy/
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Robert Lake wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Hi Andy,
>>>>>>>> Yes I do. Start with this .
>>>>>>>> http://highlandercenter.org/about-us/history/
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> And this biography of Myles Horton
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> http://www.amazon.com/The-Long-Haul-An-Autobiography/dp/0807737003
>>>>>>>> and the biography of Septima Clark.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> http://www.amazon.com/Freedoms-Teacher-Life-Septima-
>>>>>>>> Clark/dp/0807872229/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=
>>>>>>>> 1408889271&sr=1-2&keywords=septima+clark <http://www.amazon.com/
>>>>>>>> Freedoms-Teacher-Life-Septima-Clark/dp/0807872229/ref=sr_1_
>>>>>>>> 2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1408889271&sr=1-2&keywords=septima+clark>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I have written a piece on her as well and will send it this
>>>>>>>>
>> afternoon.
>>
>>>>>>>> I think the book We Make the Road by Walking: A dialogue between
>>>>>>>>
>> Myles
>>
>>>>>>>> Horton and Paulo Freire
>>>>>>>> is one of the best books on both these leaders.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> More Later,
>>>>>>>> Robert Lake
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I will send more this afternoon.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On Sun, Aug 24, 2014 at 9:31 AM, Andy Blunden <ablunden@mira.net
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> <mailto:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> ablunden@mira.net>> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Does anyone on this list know about the Highlander Center, what
>>>>>>>> used to be called the Highlander Folk School?
>>>>>>>> The people there are very helpful, but they're also rushed off
>>>>>>>> their feet (like everyone, I guess) and if there were any other
>>>>>>>> sources of information about it, that would be helpful. I'm
>>>>>>>> particularly interested if anyone is familiar with what they were
>>>>>>>> doing in the 1950s and 60s.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Andy
>>>>>>>> -- ------------------------------
>>>>>>>> ------------------------------
>>>>>>>> ------------
>>>>>>>> *Andy Blunden*
>>>>>>>> http://home.pacific.net.au/~andy/
>>>>>>>> <http://home.pacific.net.au/%7Eandy/>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> --
>>>>>>>> *Robert Lake Ed.D.
>>>>>>>> *Associate Professor
>>>>>>>> Social Foundations of Education
>>>>>>>> Dept. of Curriculum, Foundations, and Reading
>>>>>>>> Georgia Southern University
>>>>>>>> Secretary/Treasurer-AERA- Paulo Freire Special Interest Group
>>>>>>>> P. O. Box 8144
>>>>>>>> Phone: (912) 478-0355
>>>>>>>> Fax: (912) 478-5382
>>>>>>>> Statesboro, GA 30460
>>>>>>>>
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