Releasing the Imagination by Maxine Greene, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

Now in Paperback "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 | Releasing the Imagination by Maxine Greene, Paperback | Indigo Chapters