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Releasing the Imagination: Essays on Education, the Arts, and Social Change Revised Edition
Contributor(s): Greene, Maxine (Author)

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 ISBN: 0787952915     ISBN-13: 9780787952914
Publisher: Jossey-Bass
OUR PRICE: $32.30  

Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: February 2000
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Annotation: Ruminating on themes such as literacy, the arts and aesthetics, pluralism, multi-culturalism, and the tensions and passions of caring, Greene carefully considers both the realities of hard economic times and the human requirement for expressiveness. He explains how the arts play a key role in building understanding across differences and in stimulating the capacity to break with the habitual and the taken for granted--counteracting the sometimes pervasive sense of futility that overwhelms many of our youth.

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BISAC Categories:
- Education | Philosophy, Theory & Social Aspects
- Education | Arts In Education
- Education | Essays
Dewey: 370
LCCN: 95014659
Series: Jossey-Bass Education
Physical Information: 0.66" H x 6.03" W x 9.04" L (0.62 lbs) 240 pages
Features: Ikids, Index, Price on Product
Review Citations: Reference and Research Bk News 02/01/2001 pg. 145
 
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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 clich 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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