EDEC 260 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Maxine Greene, Transformative Learning, Critical Consciousness

• School: McGill University
• Department: Curriculum and Instruction
• Course: EDEC 260
• Professor: Ronald Morris

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And they wanted to create a more just, democratic and inclusive society. Green says that one way of having social justice is through imagination. For her imagination helps recapture our freedom and autonomy. She is trying to use imagination to bring about change and she argues that the whole purpose of bringing change is to recapture freedom and autonomy). Freire tries to use rational thinking and dialogue to bring about change in order to recapture our awareness of unfinishedness). You will become familiar with some of the main underl(cid:455)i(cid:374)g features of ma(cid:454)i(cid:374)e gree(cid:374)e"s philosophy of education, with a particular focus on the idea of imagination. You will be able to make connections between some of her main philosophical ideas and their impact on education, their implications for us democratic citizens today, and where you stand in relation to them. Setting the stage: dark times and flickers of hope, students during dark times.