20.023 - Holistic Education SIG Business Meeting. Maxine Greene, the Living Legacy: A "Wide-Awake" Wake

Session Type: Business Meeting

Abstract

Education theorist Bill Ayers and arts education activist Arnold Aprill will be joined by moderator Bruce Novak to reflect, together with the attendees of the session, upon the living legacy of Maxine Greene. The session will be organized to examine key foundational contributions she has made to broadening, deepening, and enlivening conceptions of socially engaged K-12 education, highlighting her insights into the role of the arts in the formation of a moral pedagogy and a curriculum for social justice. Honoring her rich, varied, and holistic thinking about teaching and learning, this lecture / demonstration / workshop / performance will illustrate the impact of her luminous spirit and her penetrating mind through a series of multi-media interactions with a group of local, national, and international teachers, artists, and young people. These educators and learners, inspired by her wide-ranging body of work on the “dialectic of freedom,” have committed to creating just and joyful pedagogies, and serve as an enduring testimony to the on-going life of her legacy. Co-presenters/performers will include young people from the Free Write Jail Arts & Literacy Program and the Kuumba Lynx Performance Ensemble, as well as Kurt Wootton from the Habla Center for Language and Culture in Merida, Mexico. In the words of Bill Ayers, this will be an occasion for “conjuring once more our dazzling and matchless Maxine, our dear, sweet friend, our teacher—the finest any of us could hope for—who always found new and surprising ways to nourish each of us and to simultaneously challenge us with a simple word or a single gesture. She was our inspiration; she is our treasure still.”

Sub Unit

• SIG-Holistic Education

Chair

• Bruce J. Novak, Foundation for Ethics and Meaning

Papers

• Key Dialectical Frameworks in Maxine Greene's Work - William C. Ayers, University of Illinois at Chicago

• Maxine Greene's Impact on the Reconceiving of the Role of the Arts in Education - Arnold Aprill, Chicago Arts Patnerships in Education

• Examples of Maxine Greene's Concepts in Action in Local, National, and International Initiatives - William C. Ayers, University of Illinois at Chicago; Arnold Aprill, Chicago Arts Patnerships in Education

• Just Teaching in Unjust Settings: Animation and Spoken Word - Elgin Bokari-Smith, Columbia College Chicago; Roger Bonair-Agard, Fordham University

• Maxine Greene's Dialectical Relationship to the Work of Paulo Freire - Kurt Wooton, Brown University

• Maxine Greene's Concept of "Being Alive Among Others" - Kuumba Lynx

• Reconceiving the "Color of Justice" in African American Communities - Amanda Williams, Freelance