Releasing the Imagination Essays on Education, the Arts, and Social Change

Name: Releasing the Imagination Essays on Education, the Arts, and Social Change
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ISBN: 9780787952914

ISBN-10: 0787952915

ISBN-13: 9780787952914

Edition: 1995

Authors: Maxine Greene

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Now in Paperback "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…

Book details

List price: $34.00
Copyright year: 1995
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated
Publication date: 2/2/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 240
Size: 5.90" wide x 8.80" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 0.924
Language: English



The Author


Introduction: Narrative in the Making



Creating Possibilities



Seeking Contexts



Imagination, Breakthroughs, and the Unexpected



Imagination, Community, and the School



Discovering a Pedagogy



Social Vision and the Dance of Life



The Shapes of Childhood Recalled



Illuminations and Epiphanies



The Continuing Search for Curriculum



Writing to Learn



Teaching for Openings



Art and Imagination



Texts and Margins



Community in the Making



The Passions of Pluralism



Standards, Common Learnings, and Diversity



Multiple Voices and Multiple Realities


References


Index