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Releasing the Imagination
Essays on Education, the Arts, and Social Change
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This book is particularly suited for educators, teacher trainees, and readers interested in education theory, arts education, and multicultural approaches to learning. It offers valuable insights for those who seek to inspire creativity and inclusivity within educational settings.
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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, makes an impassioned argument for using the arts as a tool for opening minds and for breaking down the barriers to imagining the realities of worlds other than our own familiar cultures. There is a strong rhythm to the thoughts, the arguments, and the entire sequence of essays presented here.
—American Journal of Education
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
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The book has received high praise for its insightful and eloquent approach. Choice heralds it as a vital resource for educators, especially in teacher education, emphasising its call to restructure schooling to nurture student imagination and expression. The American Journal of Education highlights Greene's passionate argument for the arts as a means of expanding minds and bridging cultural divides, noting the dynamic and rhythmic presentation of the essays. Esteemed academics such as Elliot W. Eisner and William Ayers commend the book for its challenge to educational norms and its celebration of human experience and creativity.
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ISBN: 9780787952914
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 03 February 2000
Country: United States
Imprint: Jossey-Bass Inc.,U.S.
Audience: General / adult, Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 18.0mm
Width: 150.0mm
Height: 224.0mm
Weight: 340g
Pages: 240
About the Author
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 president of the American Educational Research Association, the American Educational Studies Association, and the Philosophy of Education Society.
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