Special 2018 Edition From the new Introduction by Janet L. Miller,
Teachers College, Columbia University: "Maxine Greene never claimed
to be a visionary thinker. But forty years later, her trepidations
detailed throughout 1978's Landscapes of Learning now appear
unnervingly prescient. Witness and treasure Landscapes as evidence
of her matchless abilities to inspire myriad educators and students
worldwide." "I would suggest that there must always be a place in
teacher education for 'foundations' people, whose fundamental
concern is with opening new perspectives on the many faces of the
human world." -Maxine Greene The essays in this volume demonstrate
clearly that Maxine Greene is herself an example of the kind of
"foundations" specialist she hopes to see: someone who can
stimulate, inform, and bring new insights to teachers, students,
curriculum planners, administrators, policy-makers-indeed all those
concerned with education in its broadest sense. These essays, a
number of them based on lectures presented to various professional
organizations, reveals her dedication to learning and teaching, as
it reveals her belief in the potential of each individual person. A
philosopher whose orientation is largely existential and
phenomenological, she seeks to demystify aspects of today's
technological society, to question taken-for-granted notions of
social justice and equality, and to elucidate conflicts between
youth and age, the poor and the middle class, people of color and
Whites, male and female. As a humanist, she calls for
self-reflectiveness, wide-awakeness, and personal transformation
within the context of each person's own lived world-each one's
particular landscape of work, experience, and aspiration.
Recognizing the multiple realities that compose experience, the
many landscapes against which sense-making proceeds, the essays are
grouped in four sections: intellectual and moral components of
emancipatory education; social issues and their implications for
approaches to pedagogy; artistic-aesthetic considerations in the
making of curriculum; and the cultural significance of women's
predicaments today. All are richly illuminated by examples; all are
written with grace and passion; all will help readers achieve
greater self-understanding and critical consciousness.
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