Releasing the Imagination

Name: Releasing the Imagination
Brand: Unknown
SKU: 9780787952914
Price: 64.99 NZD
Availability: InStock

Essays on Education, the Arts, and Social Change

By Maxine Greene

0.0 (0 reviews)

4.16

( 235 ratings, 16 reviews)

Summary

Releasing the Imagination is a compelling collection of essays by Maxine Greene that explores the essential role of imagination within education. The book advocates for schools to become spaces where students actively seek meaning and where marginalized voices are heard. Greene encourages readers to engage their imaginative capacities through the arts, fostering new ways of understanding and experiencing diverse social and multicultural realities. This work challenges educational conformity, emphasising creativity, aesthetic experience, and critical reflection as transformative forces in general and arts education.
Read More

Format: Paperback / softback

$64⁹⁹

AVAILABLE WITH SUPPLIER Ships from our Auckland warehouse within 3-4 weeks

Found a better price? Request a price match

Releasing the Imagination

$64⁹⁹

Book Hero Magic created this recommendation. While it's new and still learning, it may not be perfect - your feedback is welcome! IS THIS YOUR NEXT READ?

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.

Description

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

Book Hero Magic summarised reviews for this book. While it's new and still learning, it may not be perfect - your feedback is welcome! HOW HAS THIS BEEN REVIEWED?

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.

Book Details

INFORMATION

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

Collections

Education & Reference Maxine Greene Non-Fiction Science & Nature

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.