Maxine+Green

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 * Maxine Green**

Synopsis of the educational theory of Green - [] The importance of personal reflection - []

__Maxine Green (Cathy)__

WEBSITES [] [] [] P124 A theme permeating much of Maxine Greene’s work is her unyielding faith in humankind’s willingness and ability to build on and transcend their lived worlds. P125 Greene uses characters and ideas from both traditional and contemporary literature to help the reader connect with and personalize the philosophical question or issue under scrutiny. P125 Greene explains how for most of her life she has been preoccupied with both a personal and professional pilgrimage. P126 The ideally educated person is one who cares, that is, one who both recognizes the “wall “ as an obstacle and chooses to intelligently and persistently attack it. P132 Poor children and others often experience the weight of what is called “cultural reproduction.” P133 The challenge is to engage as many young people as possible in the thought that is freedom. P135 to recognize the role of perspective and vantage point, to recognize at the same time that there are always multiple perspective and multiple vantage points, is to recognize that no accounting, disciplinary or otherwise, can ever be finished or complete eg.Claude Monet and the multiple studies of haystacks in his garden at different seasons. P140 Teachers, like their students, have to learn to love the questions, as they come to realize that here can be no final agreements or answers, no final commensurability. P140 Opening public spaces where freedom is the mainspring…Power is never the property of an individual; it belongs to a group and remains in existence only so long as the group keeps together. Power may be thought of, then, as “empowerment.” (Jenny) Possibilities for presentation : Leadership barriers, discussions on how schools currently promote freedom in thinking. Stories of leadership others resonate with. Freedom in leadership? P151 Importance of imagination and exploration of alternative possibilities. Ice cream van drug dispensary. At a PD last year (I think with Phil) we investigated the possibilities of using a Mr Whippy type van as a drug dispensary, looking at the Pros and Cons. We also went on to create the type of school we would run to suit our beliefs in education if there were no limitations and went on to describe the school. P153 Freedom must be pursued. “Only when individuals are empowered to interpret the situations they live together do they become able to mediate between the object-world and their own consciousness, to locate themselves so that freedom can appear.” “Exploring the possibility of seeing what was ordinarily obscured by the familiar, so much part of the accustomed and the everyday that it escaped notice entirely.” How would a martian view what was there, a boat person newly arrived. What would happen if the hands were removed from the clock? Submergence and the inability to name what lies around interfere with questioning. The anaesthetic in experience is what numbs people and prevents them from reaching out. Conscious thinking always involves a risk, a “venture into the un known”. P156 Education for freedom must clearly focus on the range of human intelligences, the multiple languages and symbol systems available for ordering experience and making sense of the lived world. They need to be empowered to reflect on and talk about what happened in tis varying connections with other events in the present as well as in the past. Clearly if the voices of participants or near participants (front line soldiers, factory workers, slaves, crusaders) could be heard, whole dimensions of new understanding (and perplexity and uncertainty) would be disclosed. P157 “They draw the mind to what lies beyond the accustomed boundaries and often to what is not yet. They do so as persons become more and more aware of unanswered questions, the unexplored corners, the nameless faces behind the forgotten windows. These are the obstacles to be transcended if understanding is to be gained. And it is in the transcending, as we have seen, that freedom is often achieved.

From an addiction assistance website!
 * Aristotle, the ancient Greek philosipher called the power to change ourselves "Praxis". **
 * Philosophically it means: **
 * **freedom over the role of playing victim **
 * **action rather than excuses **
 * **practice rather than theory **
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(95, 73, 122); font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Literally, from the Greek, it means **<span style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(95, 73, 122); font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">
 * **<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">I do **<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">
 * **<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">I accomplish - as in a journey **

Lucy- Great info Cathy and Jenny. Will have a look at the Guernica painting tomorrow at work tomorrow and see if it might be a good "way in" to Greene's ideas.