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Maxine Greene

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Today in education

Who was Maxine Greene?

Educational Background

She graduated from Barnard College. She earned her Masters and a Ph.D. in philosophy from New York University

  • Born December 23, 1917 in Brooklyn, New York
  • Died May 29, 2014 in Manhattan, New York at age 96
  • Greene was a teacher, educational philosopher, author and a social activist.

Connections to other figures

Maxine Greene's Views

Dr. Greene believed that creative thinking and robust imagining were the keys not just to an individual’s lifelong learning but to the flourishing of a democratic society. She espoused the view that students could be taught and encouraged to engage the world not just as it is but as it might otherwise be

She used the same approaches as other philosophers such as Hannah Arendt and John Dewey and Jean-Paul Sartre

Resources

1. Laird, S. (1996). Girls and women, education of. In J. Chambliss (Ed.), Philosophy of education: An encyclopedia. London, United Kingdom: Routledge. Retrieved from http://search.credoreference.com/content/entry/routpe/girls_and_women_education_of/0

2. Weber, B. (2014, June 4). Maxine Greene, 96, Dies; Education Theorist Saw Arts as Essential. The New York Times. Retrieved from http://nytimes.com

3. Baldacchino, J. (2009, February 26). Writing the Book on the Radical Philosophies of Maxine Greene. Retrieved from http://www.tc.columbia.edu/newsroom/articles/2009/march/writing-the-book-on-the-radical-philosophies-of-maxine-green/

4. Baum, J. (2003, August). Maxine Greene, Philosopher & Aestheter. Retrieved from http://www.educationupdate.com/archieves/2003/aug03/issue/spot_greene.html

5. Amrein-Beardsley, A. (2010, November 11). Maxine Greene. Retrieved from http://maxinegreene.org/about/social-imaganation

Resources Continued

6. Greene, M. (2015, October 13). Maxine Greene Quotes. Retrieved from https://questioningteachers.wordpress.com/discussion-reflection-and-resources/quotes-about-questions/maxine-greene-quotes/

7. Levine, J. (2014, May 29). Maxine Greene, TC’s Great Philosopher, dies at 96. Retrieved from http://www.tc.columbia.edu/news.htm?articleID=9496

8. Lesko, N. (2004, June 1). Imagining Maxine Greene. Retrieved from http://www.tc.columbia.edu/news.htm?articleId=4852

9. Huddleston, G. (2014, May 30). Maxine Greene (1917-2014). Retrieved from http://www.jctonline.org/maxine-greene-1917-2014/

10. Baker-Kee, J. (2014, June 6). Remembering Maxine Greene. Retrieved from http://artmuseumteaching.com/2014/06/06/remembering-maxine-greene/

What makes her noteworthy?

The reasoning behind her work

  • Greene had a long and distinguished career
  • She contributed to more than 100 chapters to various educational collections in the domains of art, curriculum, literature and social philosophy.
  • Greene also has written seven books, including Teacher as Stranger, Releasing the Imagination and most recently, Variations on a Blue Guitar.

She came from a family that, in her words, “discouraged intellectual adventure and risk,” she was a compulsive story-teller who came to political consciousness in college after meeting members of the anti-fascist forces in Spain. After college Greene went on to write and comment on topics ranging from the imagination, aesthetics and multiculturalism to standardized testing, the Columbine shootings and films by Mel Brooks. Influenced in part by personal tragedy – she lost her beloved daughter, Linda, to cancer – she frequently addressed the darker sides of human experience and human nature, but her message was consistently one of hope.

“If the artistic-aesthetic can indeed open up a petrified world, provide new standpoints on what is taken for granted, those who are empowered to engage with the arts cannot be pose a range of questions that never occurred to them before. They cannot but do so in the light of what they themselves want to know. And it is surely those who can pose their own questions, pose them in person, who are the ones ready to learn how to learn.”

Maxine's impact on education

  • Greene helped fund the Lincoln Center School of performing arts.
  • Her various educational theories are still used in today's classrooms
  • Provides scholarships to students
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