I am currently reading her book, Releasing the Imagination (1995). Some might think the book is out of date, that research has changed significantly since its printing. On the contrary, her thoughts about students and teachers using their imaginations holds truth to today's world!
Maxine's Youtube video, just prior to her death, sends a strong message to new teachers. She speaks to the importance of beginnings. She describes teachers as perpetual beginners. I feel this way right now as I embark on the closeness to the end of a new September. A new one every year. Greene asks teachers "to think about what they are doing and use their imaginations as they keep in mind what might be, what ought to be." (Retrieved from: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_raVMnP57w) She stresses the importance to break of repetitive behaviours and patterns. This is not unlike the words of Katz who's phrase "intentional interruption" is all the buzz at our school board right now. Imagination..... hmm. How is it that teachers have lost their imagination?
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