BY JESSICA LUSSIER As we explain to others that we plan to go into education, we continually hear the encouraging, but slightly exasperating, “Well, good for you! I could never do that.” While business and computer science majors graduate with the expectation of success and comfort, future teachers enter into a workforce somehow already oriented… Read More Reclaiming Teacher Labor
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BY BILL AYERS These remarks were shared at Teachers College’s Maxine Greene Memorial Celebration on Monday, October 6th. How wonderful to be conjuring once more our dazzling and matchless Maxine, our dear, sweet friend, our teacher—the finest any of us could hope for—who always found new and surprising ways to nourish each of us and… Read More In Memoriam
BY PAULA DAVIS I visited Teachers College as a prospective student during February of 2013. Before I arrived, I decided the best way for me to get to know the college would be to talk to as many faculty members from my program as I could. I found a list of those involved with the… Read More Afternoons with Maxine
BY JUN GAO I was Dr. Greene’s student and I have inspired by her enormously. Dr. Greene also was a great mentor of my art practice and research. She appreciated my long-term exposure photography and held a salon at her foundation specifically for my photography. I have created one long-term exposure photograph attributed to her,… Read More Art Spotlight: Floral Concerto-Releasing the Imagination
BY DAIYU SUZUKI Maxine Greene: “There are no final words, but only questions.” I first came across Maxine’s work in 1996, when I was at Colgate University, I read her Dialectic of Freedom in a class titled “Democracy and Education.” It was unlike any kind of writing that I had experienced before. It had poems,… Read More No Final Words
BY PRISCILA CAMARGO RAMALHO Brazilian, Doctoral Student in the Social Studies Program, CAPES Foundation Fellow Teachers College Former student in Maxine Greene’s last course, Spring 2014 Introductory note This is a short story about five patients who meet in the post-anesthesia recovery room. They do not talk to each other, but they all undergo a… Read More The Fresta
BY ROGER HORTON Throughout her professional life, Maxine asserted that a goal of learning should be to return to a state of wide-awakeness: a state in which all of one’s senses are alive and alert, tuned into the rich complexity of the world. Not just in the physical sense that comes naturally to children, but… Read More Maxine’s Call: “Wake Up!”
BY ADAM WOLFSDORF Originally published on July 8, 214 by catchandreleaseblog. “There are no final words, but only questions.” – Maxine Greene, May 6, 2014 I am, admittedly, unqualified to write this. I barely knew Maxine Greene. For the most part, she was a name to me— as the semester unfolded, and I got to… Read More Maxine’s Last Class
“The public space . . . is defined by principles that enable diverse human beings to act in common and to be recognized for what they do.” “I cannot imagine a coherent sense of purpose in education if something common does not arise in a public space.” Public Education and the Public Space, (1982) p.6… Read More Maxine in Her Own Words
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