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The Ambiguities of Freedom: Public Policy and American Youth
The Center for Social Imagination, the Arts, and Education
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| Maxine Greene |
 Maxine Greene is the founder and director of the Center for Social Imagination, the Arts and Education at the Center for Educational Outreach and Innovation at Teachers College, Columbia University, where she is the William F. Russell Professor in the Foundations of Education (emerita) and professor of philosophy and education (emerita). Her six books include The Public School and the Private Vision, The Dialectic of Freedom and Releasing the Imagination. For the past 20 years Dr. Greene has been philosopher-in-residence at the Lincoln Center Institute of the Arts in Education.
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| Benjamin Barber |
 Benjamin Barber is currently the Walt Whitman Professor of Political Science at Rutgers University. He is the director of the Walt Whitman Center for Culture and Politics of Democracy, and has received global acclaim for his latest book, Jihad vs. McWorld, a critical study of the corrosive effects of tribalism and markets on democracy. He has contributed to a wide array of educational television specials, including the prizewinning CBS/PBS series "The Struggle for Democracy."
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| Valerie Polakow |
 Valerie Polakow is on the faculty of Eastern Michigan University's School of Education. She is a committed child advocate and an expert on day-care systems. Her book Lives on the Edge: Single Mothers and Their Children in the Other America challenges basic myths about justice and democracy in America today
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| Bill Ayers |
 Bill Ayers is a longtime teacher and activist, education writer and reformer, and professor at the University of Illinois, Chicago. His books include To Teach: The Journey of a Teacher; A Kind and Just Parent: The Children of Juvenile Court; and the award-winning anthology To Become a Teacher: Making a Difference in Children's Lives, which he edited.
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| The Center for Social Imagination, the Arts, and Education |
Founded and directed by Teachers College Emerita professor of Philosophy and Education Maxine Greene, the Center for Social Imagination, the Arts, and Education is committed to the development of alternative modes of inventing, creating, and interpreting. Through these endeavors of the imagination, and through its series of interdisciplinary programs, the Center seeks to shape visions of "a lovelier world," embracing, in all its diverse cultural richness, one humanity. Working in the tradition of Dewey, James, and the Existentialists, the Center brings schoolchildren, artists, academics, and social activists together in conferences and workshops to explore possibilities of reform and transformation in schools and social communities. By sponsoring monthly "salons," the Center attempts to generate dialogue and research projects that open new perspectives in the arts, humanities, and the human sciences. The Center is also in the process of developing networks that bring together art institutions, public schools, and Teachers College in order to investigate, document, and articulate just what role encounters with the arts-including the quintessential 20th century art forms of film and video-might play in inspiring social visions and, by consequence, in effectuating vibrant, moral communities. The Center, in its desire "to enlarge the conversation, to try for clarity, to persuade," will, in addition, publish occasional essays, in both belles letters and position paper formats, reflecting imaginative thinking and advocacy in these areas of concern. The Center for Social Imagination, the Arts, and Education is affiliated with the Teachers College Center for Educational Outreach and Innovation. It is funded by the Aaron Diamond Foundation, the Solidago Foundation, and an anonymous donor.
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