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

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 ISBN: 0787900818     ISBN-13: 9780787900816
Publisher: Jossey-Bass
OUR PRICE: $54.15  

Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: July 1995
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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 | History
- Education | Arts In Education
- Education | Philosophy, Theory & Social Aspects
Dewey: 370.973
LCCN: 95014659
Series: Jossey-Bass Education
Physical Information: 0.54" H x 6.22" W x 9.24" L (0.71 lbs) 232 pages
Features: Bibliography, Index
 
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Now in Paperback

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 of imagination and the arts.Releasing the Imagination should be required reading for alleducators, particularly those in teacher education, and for generaland academic readers.

--Choice

Maxine Greene, with her customary eloquence, makes an impassionedargument for using the arts as a tool for opening minds and forbreaking down the barriers to imagining the realities of worldsother than our own familiar cultures.... There is a strong rhythmto the thoughts, the arguments, and the entire sequence of essayspresented here.

--American Journal of Education
 
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