Remembering Maxine: “There is Always More.”

• In Event: Never Forget: Intellectual Contributions of Influential People in Education and Society

Abstract

The present manuscript considers the conference question, “What are forgotten alternatives, policies, and practices that might envision a more equitable and just educational world?” Maxine Greene is hardly forgotten – instead she is all the more present in our minds as we consider how she would respond with ferocity to the current rise of autocracy and stupidity in our democracy. To maintain our passion and optimism, particularly as teacher educators, we must remind ourselves of her argument: “There is always more.” “I am what I am not yet,” Greene so often reminded us – through dialogue and inquiry we engage in continual finding out, an ongoing, ever-evolving process. The process of becoming, rather than arriving, persists in its urgency.

Author

• Mary Bushnell Greiner, Queens College - City University of New York