Research Catalog

Title

Releasing the imagination : essays on education, the arts, and social change / Maxine Greene.

Author

Greene, Maxine.

Publication

San Francisco : Jossey-Bass Publishers, 1995.

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Details

Description

x, 221 pages; 24 cm.

Series Statement

The Jossey-Bass education series

Uniform Title

Jossey-Bass education series

Subject

• Education > Aims and objectives > United States
• Education > Social aspects > United States
• Educational change > United States
• Arts > Study and teaching > United States
• Arts > Study and teaching
• Education > Aims and objectives
• Education > Social aspects
• Educational change
• Bildungswesen
• Erziehungsphilosophie
• Erziehungsziel
• Imagination
• Innovation
• Kreativität
• Pädagogische Soziologie
• Schulreform
• Educational sociology > United States
• Erziehungsphilosophie
• Imagination
• Innovation
• Bildungswesen
• Schulreform
• Erziehungsziel
• United States
• USA
• USA

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 199-208) and index.

Performer (note)

• Ernest C. Barber, Jr. Class of 1960 Memorial.

Contents

Introduction: A quest for meaning -- Part one: Creating possibilities -- Seeking contexts -- Imagination, breakthroughs, and the unexpected -- Imagination, community, and the school -- Consciousness and the public space -- Social vision and the dance of life -- The shapes of childhood recalled -- Part two: Imagination and education -- Blue guitars and the search for curriculum -- Writing to learn -- Teaching for openings -- Art and imagination -- Texts and margins -- Part three: Community in the making -- The passions of pluralism -- Standards, common learnings, and diversity --Multiple voices and multiple realities.

ISBN

• 0787900818
• 9780787900816
• 0787952915
• 9780787952914

LCCN

95014659

OCLC

• ocm32311192
• 32311192
• SCSB-8893748

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library