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Releasing the Imagination: Essays on Education, the Arts, and Social Change
Maxine Greene
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Description for Releasing the Imagination: Essays on Education, the Arts, and Social Change
Paperback. Num Pages: 240 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: GPQ; JNC; JNK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 151 x 17. Weight in Grams: 308.
"This remarkable set of essays defines the role of imagination in general education, arts education, aesthetics, literature, and the social and multicultural context.... The author argues for schools to be restructured as places where students reach out for meanings and where the previously silenced or unheard may have a voice. She invites readers to develop processes to enhance and cultivate their own visions through the application of imagination and the arts. Releasing the Imagination should be required reading for all educators, particularly those in teacher education, and for general and academic readers."
—Choice
"This remarkable set of essays defines the role of imagination in general education, arts education, aesthetics, literature, and the social and multicultural context.... The author argues for schools to be restructured as places where students reach out for meanings and where the previously silenced or unheard may have a voice. She invites readers to develop processes to enhance and cultivate their own visions through the application of imagination and the arts. Releasing the Imagination should be required reading for all educators, particularly those in teacher education, and for general and academic readers."
—Choice
"Maxine Greene, with her customary eloquence, ... Read more
"Releasing the Imagination gives us a vivid portrait of the possibilities of human experience and education's role in its realization. It is a welcome corrective to current pressures for educational conformity."
—Elliot W. Eisner, professor of education and art, Stanford University
"Releasing the Imagination challenges all the cant and cliché littering the field of education today. It breaks through the routine, the frozen, the numbing, the unexamined; it shocks the reader into new awareness."
—William Ayers, associate professor, College of Education, University of Illinois, Chicago
Product Details
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons Inc
Number of pages
240
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780787952914
SKU
V9780787952914
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About Maxine Greene
MAXINE GREENE is professor of philosophy and education and the William F. Russell Professor in the Foundations of Education (Emer.) at Teachers College, Columbia University. She still teaches there and directs the Center for Social Imagination, the Arts, and Education. She also serves as "philosopher-in-residence" at the Lincoln Center Institute for the Arts in Education; and she is a past ... Read more
Reviews for Releasing the Imagination: Essays on Education, the Arts, and Social Change
"This remarkable set of essays defines the role of imagination ingeneral education, arts education, aesthetics, literature, and thesocial and multicultural context.... The author argues for schoolsto be restructured as places where students reach out for meaningsand where the previously silenced or unheard may have a voice. Sheinvites readers to develop processes to enhance and cultivate theirown visions through the application ... Read more