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Variations on a Blue Guitar: The Lincoln Center Institute Lectures on Aesthetic Education
Contributor(s): Greene, Maxine (Author)

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 ISBN: 0807741353     ISBN-13: 9780807741351
Publisher: Teachers College Press
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Published: April 2018
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Annotation: For 25 years, Maxine Greene has been the philosopher-in-residence at the innovative Lincoln Center Institute, where her work forms the foundation of the Institute's aesthetic education practice. Each summer she addresses teachers from across the country, representing all grade levels, through LCI's intensive professional development sessions. Variations on a Blue Guitar contains a selection of these never-before-published lectures touching on the topics of aesthetic education, imagination and transformation, educational renewal and reform, excellence, standards, and cultural diversity -- powerful ideas for today's educators.
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BISAC Categories:
- Art | Study & Teaching
- Art | History - General
Dewey: 700.711
LCCN: 2001027325
Physical Information: 0.65" H x 6.34" W x 8.94" L (0.78 lbs) 256 pages
Features: Ikids, Index, Table of Contents
 
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Special 2018 Edition

From the new Introduction by William Ayers, education activist :

"Here is Maxine Greene in full--in her astonishingly distinctive voice she urges us to challenge all the clich s and received 'truths' that clutter our minds and senses, to open our eyes "

For 25 years, Maxine Greene was the philosopher-in-residence at the innovative Lincoln Center Institute, where her work formed the foundation of the Institute's aesthetic education practice. Each summer she addressed teachers from across the country, representing all grade levels, through LCI's intensive professional development sessions.

Variations on a Blue Guitar contains a selection of these never-before-published lectures touching on the topics of aesthetic education, imagination and transformation, educational renewal and reform, excellence, standards, and cultural diversity--powerful ideas for today's educators.
 
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