{"product_id":"9780807777138","title":"Landscapes of Learning","description":"\u003cp\u003e“I would suggest that there must always be a place in teacher education for ‘foundations’ people, whose fundamental concern is with opening new perspectives on the many faces of the human world.”\u003cbr\u003e—Maxine Greene\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe essays in this volume demonstrate clearly that Maxine Greene is herself an example of the kind of “foundations” specialist she hopes to see: someone who can stimulate, inform, and bring new insights to teachers, students, curriculum planners, administrators, policymakers—indeed all those concerned with education in its broadest sense.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese essays, a number of them based on lectures presented to various professional organizations, reveals her dedication to learning and teaching, as it reveals her belief in the potential of each individual person. A philosopher whose orientation is largely existential and phenomenological, she seeks to demystify aspects of today’s technological society, to question taken-for-granted notions of social justice and equality, and to elucidate conflicts between youth and age, the poor and the middle class, minorities and Whites, male and female. As a humanist, she calls for self-reflectiveness, wide-awakeness, and personal transformation within the context of each person’s own lived world—each one’s particular landscape of work, experience, and aspiration.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRecognizing the multiple realities that compose experience, the many landscapes against which sense-making proceeds, the essays are grouped in four sections: intellectual and moral components of emancipatory education; social issues and their implications for approaches to pedagogy; artistic-aesthetic considerations in the making of curriculum; and the cultural significance of women’s predicaments today. All are richly illuminated by examples; all are written with grace and passion; all will help readers achieve greater self-understanding and critical consciousness.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“This is a significant book.”—\u003cem\u003ePhi Delta Kappan\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Maxine Greene forces us to consider what we can do even in a limited way and to begin to understand where we have failed.”\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cem\u003eCross Currents\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Teachers College Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47128266440944,"sku":"9780807777138","price":27.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780807777138_p0.jpg?v=1763738815","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780807777138","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}