Maxine Greene and the Pedagogy of Social Imagination

Hannah Spector is Assistant Professor of Education atPenn State University, Harrisburg, USA, where she teacheson the foundations of education. Her work has been published in Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, Studies in Philosophy and Education,and Review of Education, Pedagogy, and Cultural Studies, amongst others. Robert Lake isAssociate Professor of Social Foundations of Education at Georgia Southern University, USA. He teaches on diversity and multicultural education from both a local and global perspective.He is the author of Vygotsky on Education (2012), A Curriculum of Imagination in an Era of Standardization: An Imaginative Dialogue with Maxine Greene and Paulo Freire: Information Age (2013), and Dear Maxine: Letters From the Unfinished Conversation with Maxine Greene (2011).Tricia M. Kress isAssociate Professor of Urban Education, Leadership and Policy Studies at the University of Massachusetts, Boston, USA. Her research uses critical pedagogy, cultural sociology, and autoethnography to rethink teaching, learning and research in urban schools. She details this approach in Critical Praxis Research: Breathing New Life into Research Methods for Teachers (2011). She is also the editor of Paulo Freire's Intellectual Roots (with Robert Lake, 2013).