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Blue Guitars: Arts and Aesthetics in Learning
May 4, 1999
Maxine Greene professor emeritus, education, Columbia

Maxine Greene, professor emerita of philosophy and education and director of the Center for Social Imagination at Columbia University, shares her vision of the power of the arts in education to transform student indifference into a state of wide-awakeness.

This lecture is part of the Arts in Education Program's John Landrum Bryant Lecture Performance Series.

Education | Literature & Philosophy
Activism | Maxine Greene | Arts in Education | Community Building | Primary Education | Music
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