Maxine Greene and the Pedagogy of Social Imagination - 9781138499379

Taylor & Francis

Devoted to and inspired by the late Maxine Greene, a champion of education and advocator of the arts, this book recognizes the importance of Greene\u2019s scholarship by revisiting her oeuvre in the context of the intellectual historicity that shaped its formation. As a scholar, Greene dialogued with philosophers, social theorists, writers, musicians, and artists. These conversations reveal the ways in which the arts, just like philosophy and science, allow for the facilitation of \""wide-awakeness,\"" a term that is central to Greene\u2019s pedagogy. Amidst contemporary trends of neoliberal, one-size-fits-all curriculum reforms in which the arts are typically squeezed out or pushed aside, Greene\u2019s work reminds us that the social imagination is stunted without the arts. Artistic ways of knowing allow for people to see beyond their own worlds and beyond \""what is\"" into other worlds of \""what was\"" and \""what might\"" be some day. This volume demonstrates Maxine Greene\u2019s profou.