Journal of Educational Controversy

Article Title

Notes on a Blue Guitar

Authors

William F. Pinar, University of British Columbia, Canada

Document Type

Special Section 2

Theme

CONTINUING THE CONVERSATION WITH MAXINE GREENE: REFLECTIONS ENGENDERED BY HER LIFE AND WORK

Abstract

Aesthetic education is … integral to any educational enterprise. -- Maxine Greene (2001, p. 139)

For twenty years Maxine Greene delivered lectures at the Lincoln Institute for the Arts in Education. They are collected in Variations on a Blue Guitar (2001). Working from these, I sound notes of my own, variations on Greene’s conception of aesthetic education. As indicated in the epigraph, that conception extends to education generally. Understanding art (whether as performance or object) as event and as simultaneously continuous and disjunctive with everyday experience, Greene envisions aesthetic education as engendering subjective and social reconstruction.

Genre/Form

articles

Recommended Citation

Pinar, William F. (2010) "Notes on a Blue Guitar," Journal of Educational Controversy: Vol. 5: No. 1, Article 18.
Available at: https://cedar.wwu.edu/jec/vol5/iss1/18

Subjects - Topical (LCSH)

Art teachers--Training of--New York (State)--New York; Aesthetics--Study and teaching--New York (State)--New York; Artists as teachers--New York (State)--New York

Subjects - Names (LCNAF)

Greene, Maxine

Geographic Coverage

New York (State)--New York

Language

English

Format

application/pdf

Type

Text