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Maxine Greene
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“It would appear that this sort of life, excluding “the pains of thought,” lays an individual open to new kinds of oppression. After all, the most effectual way of coping with manipulation or conditioning is to become cognizant of what is happening (and, if possible, to find out who is responsible). To take refuge within one’s inwardness may well be to disarm oneself as a social being, to render oneself doubly vulnerable to the mystifications that legitimate manipulation and conditioning. Under such circumstances, can the self remain inviolable? Or does a kind of inviolability have to be achieved—through critical reflection, in the pain of thought?”
― Landscapes of Learning
― Landscapes of Learning
“Teachers who are alienated, passive, and unquestioning cannot make such initiations possible for those around. Nor can teachers who take the social reality surrounding them for granted and simply accede to them. Again, I am interested in trying to awaken educators to a realization that transformations are conceivable, that learning is stimulated by a sense of future possibility and by a sense of what might be. So there is talk in this book about the need for social praxis, about critical consciousness, about equality and equity, as well as about personal liberation.”
― Landscapes of Learning
― Landscapes of Learning
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