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Education beyond education : self and the imaginary in Maxine Greene's philosophy / John Baldacchino.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Teaching contemporary scholars ; v. 5.Publisher: New York : Peter Lang, [2009]Copyright date: ©2009Description: x, 167 pages ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 1433103559
  • 9781433103551
  • 1433103567
  • 9781433103568
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Online version:: Education beyond education.; No titleDDC classification:
  • 370.1 22
LOC classification:
  • LB885.G682 B34 2009
Contents:
Introduction: Definite readings -- 1. To see with Greene -- " ... so that we all become different" -- Uniquely incomplete, yet hopeful -- The algebra of fragile dreams -- 2. If we are to be -- " ... somewhat later than Dewey's" -- Disruptive choices -- The free as reflective -- 3. Lives observed -- Through the looking-glass of "depicted consciousness" -- Landscapes of the many -- "The glove's twisted finger" -- 4. Meaning's cause -- The Skhole's radical call -- Rioter's in the courtyard -- Meaning "released" -- 5. Possible freedoms -- Those who 'merit' and those who 'fail' -- " ... enabled to choose themselves as free" -- Liberty's dilemma -- 6. Anticipations -- Experience, once gained -- " ... summoned up imaginatively" -- Art as "futuring" -- 7. Risking the aesthetic -- Agonized, if only beautiful -- Art's other facts -- Questioning benignity -- 8. Pedagogical imaginaries -- Our imaginations ... Whose imaginary? -- Presenced truth -- "Only a subject ... can choose" -- Conclusion -- Education beyond education.
Review: "Developing a theme in dialogue with Maxine Greene's philosophy, this book introduces the reader to what animates Greene's passionate work: the self and the imaginary. It illuminates how Greene empowers us all as learners of the possible, by identifying learning with the power of the imagination. Greene's work promises hope beyond the impasse that often occurs when learning is reified by educational systems. Education Beyond Education illustrates how Greene redefines the notion of the imaginary and with it, that of the imagination as that which expands the possibilities of learning beyond the boundaries by which education is often narrowly defined and practiced. Tracing Greene's key arguments, Education Beyond Education offers a strikingly original and empowering way to see and re-position education beyond its customary limits."--Jacket.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: Definite readings -- 1. To see with Greene -- " ... so that we all become different" -- Uniquely incomplete, yet hopeful -- The algebra of fragile dreams -- 2. If we are to be -- " ... somewhat later than Dewey's" -- Disruptive choices -- The free as reflective -- 3. Lives observed -- Through the looking-glass of "depicted consciousness" -- Landscapes of the many -- "The glove's twisted finger" -- 4. Meaning's cause -- The Skhole's radical call -- Rioter's in the courtyard -- Meaning "released" -- 5. Possible freedoms -- Those who 'merit' and those who 'fail' -- " ... enabled to choose themselves as free" -- Liberty's dilemma -- 6. Anticipations -- Experience, once gained -- " ... summoned up imaginatively" -- Art as "futuring" -- 7. Risking the aesthetic -- Agonized, if only beautiful -- Art's other facts -- Questioning benignity -- 8. Pedagogical imaginaries -- Our imaginations ... Whose imaginary? -- Presenced truth -- "Only a subject ... can choose" -- Conclusion -- Education beyond education.

"Developing a theme in dialogue with Maxine Greene's philosophy, this book introduces the reader to what animates Greene's passionate work: the self and the imaginary. It illuminates how Greene empowers us all as learners of the possible, by identifying learning with the power of the imagination. Greene's work promises hope beyond the impasse that often occurs when learning is reified by educational systems. Education Beyond Education illustrates how Greene redefines the notion of the imaginary and with it, that of the imagination as that which expands the possibilities of learning beyond the boundaries by which education is often narrowly defined and practiced. Tracing Greene's key arguments, Education Beyond Education offers a strikingly original and empowering way to see and re-position education beyond its customary limits."--Jacket.

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