Dreaming in Greene: Reframing Contemporary Educational Policy, Practice, and Research Through Maxine Greene’s Critical Lens

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

The 2018 Call bears Maxine Greene’s imprint: to tackle threats to public education, to equitable opportunity, and to respect for diversity, justice, and human dignity in all educative endeavors.
Described in The New York Times obituary as “one of the most important education philosophers of the past 50 years,” Greene enacted a social vision and agency that fuels current fights for social justice. Symposium participants honor what would have been Maxine’s 100th year of life in 2018; further, they detail how Maxine’s work compels us still to “speak out . . . about the lacks that must be repaired, the possibilities to be acted upon in the name of what [we] deem decent, humane, and just” (Greene, 1978, p. 71).

Sub Unit

• Division G - Social Context of Education / Division G - Section 2: Studies of diversity and variation within social contexts of education

Chair

• Carole P. Saltz, Teachers College, Columbia University

Papers

• Maxine Greene's Concept of the Social Imagination as Critical Pedagogy - Wendy R. Kohli, Fairfield University

• Securing Equitable, Empowering Education for All: The Need for Critical and Creative Imagination and Action - Linda Darling-Hammond, Learning Policy Institute

• Demand the Impossible! The World as if It Could Be Otherwise - William C. Ayers, University of Illinois at Chicago

• From the Outside and the Elsewhere: Maxine Greene's Challenging Versions of Social Agency and Vision - Janet L. Miller, Teachers College, Columbia University

Discussants

• Gloria J. Ladson-Billings, University of Wisconsin - Madison

• Michelle Fine, City University of New York