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I want to point to the significance of organizers—figures who too often are neglected in the history of education. And I want to hail Vito Perrone as a great organizer in a rich U.S. tradition of organizing. We, of course, badly need to document the history of Vito’s work at the New School and the Center for Teaching and Learning at the University of North Dakota, as well as the history of his involvement with the North Dakota Study Group (NDSG or Group), to say nothing of Vito’s work at Harvard and in Boston and some of his special interests, like the peace movement and rural schools. This essay is not that history; it is merely a provisional exercise that may one day help shape the telling of that story.
“Organizers” are men and women (more often men, of course, given the way power functioned in the bad old days) who expound ideas, advance practices, build networks and institutions, and lead and speak for and create constituencies. An organizer is a one-person band whose marching music acts as catalyst and energizer for others. Organizers are distinctive individuals, with their own singular strength, charm, charisma, and persuasiveness—and other teacherly and leaderish traits, to say nothing of faults—but their chief creation always takes a highly social form; they make and lead groups, institutions, movements. Organizers are practitioners—artists, so to speak, in the medium of collective human action: shapers of people who come together in movements and institutions.
Organizers span the political spectrum. The American past offers us many famous conservative or centrist “organizers”—Horace Mann, the founding entrepreneur and systematizer of Massachusetts public education, comes to mind as does William Cody, a once-famous system-building superintendent of schools in Detroit in the progressive era; so does Nicholas Murray Butler, the dictatorial president of Columbia who was the boss of elite higher education in the early twentieth century. Booker T. Washington acted as the boss of African-American politics and educational networks, though politically Washington was a very complex case. He was an open conservative and secret radical. (We now know, for example, that he preached political resignation to Jim Crow publicly, while secretly financing challenges in the courts to Southern white racism.)
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Organizers span the political spectrum. The American past offers us many famous conservative or centrist “organizers”—Horace Mann, the founding entrepreneur and systematizer of Massachusetts public education, comes to mind as does William Cody, a once-famous system-building superintendent of schools in Detroit in the progressive era; so does Nicholas Murray Butler, the dictatorial president of Columbia who was the boss of elite higher education in the early twentieth century. Booker T. Washington acted as the boss of African-American politics and educational networks, though politically Washington was a very complex case. He was an open conservative and secret radical. (We now know, for example, that he preached political resignation to Jim Crow publicly, while secretly financing challenges in the courts to Southern white racism.)
Journals for full download on the link below
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