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Releasing the Imagination: Essays on Education, the Arts, and Social Change
by Maxine Greene
Wiley, John & Sons, Incorporated, 2000
ISBN: 0-7879-5291—5Dr. Greene is professor of philosophy and education at Teachers College, Columbia University and directs the Center for Social Imagination, The Arts, and Education. She also serves as "philosopher-in-residence" at the Lincoln Center Institute for the Arts in Education. This insightful book is a collection of her essays on her primary research concerns, and is a wonderful handbook of ideas and inspiration to those who share her interests.
She begins her introduction by writing, "It has been said that if we as individuals are to determine what our relationship is to some idea of the good, 'we must inescapably understand our lives in narrative form, as a quest' (Charles Taylor). To me, as well, despite or perhaps because of the fragmentation and relativism of our time, it appears that we must reach for conceptions of the good that will affect the direction of our lives. Therefore, the essays in Releasing the Imagination may be read as a narrative in the making." And what a story it is!
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