Maxine Greene’s Concept of the Social Imagination.
Maxine Greene is a true visionary in the highest sense. Her essays contained in Releasing the Imagination encourage the reader to think outside the box, to challenge their own ideas, and furthermore to become the teacher that truly changes the lives of her students.
Keywords: Maxine Greene; the Aesthetic Experience; Social Imagination; Arts; Citizenship. Introduction. This paper intends to enrich conversations in the field of cur- riculum studies, creativity, and citizenship education by re- thinking the values of art and the aesthetic experience. A major educational discourse in art is about how to increase students’ creativity in developing new ideas.
Maxine Greene, Teachers College,. Maxine continued to position literature and the arts as able to foster what she eventually called “social imagination”—“the capacity to invent visions of what should be and what might be in our deficit society, on the streets where we live, in our schools” (1995, p. 5). Such a version of imagination requires that one daily choose to work against.
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Maxine Greene wrote and spoke extensively about aesthetic education, social imagination, wide-awakeness, and educational reform. For Greene, the inclusion of arts in education was a means to reveal the social conditions that shape schools and to spark imagination that looks beyond current conditions towards future change.
Maxine Greene, Releasing the Imagination: Essays on Education, the Arts, and Social Change. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass Publishers, 1995. The central thesis of Releasing the Imagina-tion is that schools, as agents of social change, should be about freeing the imagination. As implied by the title, Maxine Greene elaborates on the value of imagination - its use in education and all of life.