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47.015 - Biographical and Documentary Research SIG Business Meeting: Imagining an Activist Future for a Blue Guitar

Sat, April 29, 6:30 to 8:00pm, Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center, Floor: Meeting Room Level, Room 206 B

Session Type: Business Meeting

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Imagining an Activist Future for a Blue Guitar: Maxine Greene and her Legacy at 100
During this centennial year of Maxine Greene’s birth (1917-2017), the Biographical and Documentary Research SIG recognizes the importance of celebrating and reflecting on her legacy. We consider it crucial to consider her body of work in the context of new possibilities for activist engagement for social justice. Within this current political/social context of fear, rising levels of racism and xenophobia in society and one-size-fits-all curriculum in schools, Greene’s work reminds us that social imagination is stunted without the implementation of critically imaginative readings of the world in ways that enable us to see beyond "what is" into other worlds of “what was” and “what might” be.

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