Variations on a blue guitar : the Lincoln Center Institute lectures on aesthetic education by Greene, Maxine, Lincoln Center Institute instant download

Variations on a blue guitar : the Lincoln Center Institute lectures on aesthetic education by Greene, Maxine, Lincoln Center Institute instant download

xvi, 240 pages ; 24 cm, For 25 years, Maxine Greene has been the philosopher-in-residence at the innovative Lincoln Center Institute, where her work forms the foundation of the Institute's aesthetic education practice. Each summer she addresses teachers from across the country, representing all grade levels, through LCI's intensive professional development sessions. Variations on a Blue Guitar contains a selection of these never-before-published lectures touching on the topics of aesthetic education, imagination and transformation, educational renewal and reform, excellence, standards, and cultural diversity - powerful ideas for today's educators, Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-230), Notes on aesthetic education (1980) -- Opening to alternative realities (1981) -- Making the petrified world speak, sing, and, perhaps, dance (1982) -- Being fully present to works of art (1982) -- Uncoupling from the ordinary (1987) -- Fragments made into designs: perceptions and emergent patterns (1987) -- We who are teachers know that imagination has this multiple power (1990) -- Complex intuitions in the perceiver make content denser and more provocative (1990) -- Charting our own ways toward meaning in various works of art (1995) -- The vibrancy and tremolos of the arts for the person and the community (1996) -- The open questions in classroom dialogues (1996) -- This is a place from which to perceive the unexplored (1997) -- Thinking of things as if they could be otherwise: the arts and intimations of a better social order (1997) -- Resistance to mere things: are and the reach of intellectual possibility (2000) -- From discovery to expression (1985) -- The wonders of mystery, the rejection of commodification (1994) -- The arts and the human condition (1995) -- The power of incompleteness (1997) -- Partnerships and the search for a common language (1998) -- Reform, renewal and the arts (superintendents day lecture, 1999) -- The artistic-aesthetic curriculum:…