Publications and Research
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
Spring 5-2016
Abstract
With beautiful irony, Maxine Greene (1995) writes in the first chapter of Releasing the Imagination that we are caught by seeing things small and by seeing things big. Small, she describes, is to see the world from a distance, as trends, patterns, and systems of ordered representation. Big, by contrast, is to illuminate the singular uniqueness of the human being, to regard the individual as something glorious and significant. Although she authored this book over twenty years ago, her concerns over the “small” condition of schooling are woefully familiar. Small are the lenses of seemingly-benevolent policy-making that trend toward test scores, management procedures, racial percentages, and accountability measures. Small, she argues, is the disregard for the dehumanizing ways in which best practices, external standards, and the language of the learning sciences, breaks the teacher and student from the emotive and deeply subjective experience of teaching and learning. https://traue.commons.gc.cuny.edu/volume-iv-issue-2-spring-2016/introduction/
Comments
Sonu, D., Asselin, C. (2016). Social Imagination Amid Neoliberal Times. Theory, Research, and Action in Urban Education (TRAUE). IV. No 2.