Our Co-conspirators

Co-conspirators in connecting folk educators, increasing awareness of folk education, and encouraging the growth of folk education programs.

Grundtvigsk Forum is an association based on the priest, poet and politician NFS Grundtvig. All members – regardless of who they are – are members because they are interested in learning more about and working with the view of the world that Grundtvig developed through his life in 19th-century Denmark, and which has influenced the country ever since.

A community of folk high school practitioners, researchers and promoters from all over the world that works to build relationships, learn about new ideas and sketch proposals for future action.

Established to develop greater interaction between academics and practitioners interested in empirical research on folk high school pedagogy. By initiating, implementing and advancing projects describing folk high schools in different geographical and cultural settings the network seeks to deepen the understanding of the folk high school movements' identity and practice.

Since 1932, Highlander has centered the experiences of directly-impacted people in the Appalachia and Southern USA region, knowing that together, we have the solutions to address the challenges we face in our communities and to build more just, equitable, and sustainable systems and structures. Our workshops and programming bring people together across issues, identity, and geography to share and build skills, knowledge, and strategies for transformative social change.

With members from more than 20 chapters across the world, AWE is a global platform for anyone that works with innovative methods for sustainable education, lifelong learning and global citizenship. The association for World Education offers a series of educational programs ranging from workshops, plenaries, training to conferences (nearly all of them online and nearly all of them free of cost) on a variety of topics for lifelong learners and educators from across the world.

A revitalized folk school experience affirming the joy of living through enlightenment, fellowship, song and dance, faith and worship in the context of a Danish-American tradition. The Danebod Folk School Meeting offers citizen enlightenment, social opportunity and introspection as part of the Folk School experience. Since l946 people from coast to coast and abroad come together in August at the Danebod Folk School, Tyler, MN.