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Releasing the Imagination: Essays on Education, the Arts, and Social Change

Releasing the Imagination: Essays on Education, the Arts, and Social Change

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General Education

ISBN10: 0787900818
ISBN13: 9780787900816
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Published: Jun 29 1995
Pages: 232
Weight: 0.71
Height: 0.54 Width: 6.22 Depth: 9.24
Language: English
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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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