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Tables of Contents for Variations on a Blue Guitar
Chapter/Section Title
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Preface: Reflection on Variations on a Blue Guitar
ix
Acknowledgments
xi
Permissions
xiii
Introduction: Maxine Greene and Lincoln Center Institute: Setting the Context
1
4
Scott Noppe-Brandon
Madeleine F. Holzer
PART I. Defining Aesthetic Education
5
60
Notes on Aesthetic Education (1980)
7
37
An Initiation into New Ways of Seeing, Hearing, Feeling, and Moving...
7
4
Multiple Visions: Aesthetic Moments and Experiences
11
5
Imagination Transmutes ``Antic Fables''
16
7
Learning and Development, Tacit Awareness, and the Enlargement of Possibility
23
5
The Phases of Imaginative Action, the Feeling of Beauty
28
7
The Maker and the Perceiver: Embodied Meanings
35
9
Opening to Alternative Realities... (1981)
44
5
Making the Petrified World Speak, Sing, and Perhaps, Dance (1982)
49
8
Being Fully Present to Works of Art (1982)
57
8
PART II. Imagination and Transformation
65
66
Uncoupling from the Ordinary (1987)
67
6
Fragments Made into Designs: Perceptions and Emergent Patterns (1987)
73
7
We Who Are Teachers Know That Imagination Has This Multiple Power... (1990)
80
6
Complex Intuitions in the Perceiver Make Content ... Denser and More Provocative (1990)
86
6
Charting Our Own Ways Toward Meaning in Various Works of Art (1995)
92
6
The Vibrancy and Tremolos of the Arts for the Person and the Community (1996)
98
6
The Open Questions in Classroom Dialogues (1996)
104
6
This is a Place from Which to Perceive the Unexplored... (1997)
110
6
Thinking of Things as if They Could Be Otherwise: The Arts and Intimations of a Better Social Order (1997)
116
6
Resistance to Mere Things: Art and the Reach of Intellectual Possibility (2000)
122
9
PART III. Excellence, Standards, School Renewal and Reform
131
44
From Discovery to Expression (1985)
133
8
The Wonders of Mystery, the Rejection of Commodification (1994)
141
7
The Arts and the Human Condition... (1995)
148
6
The Power of Incompleteness (1997)
154
7
Partnerships and the Search for a Common Language (1998)
161
7
Reform, Renewal and the Arts (Superintendents Day Lecture, 1999)
168
7
PART IV. Cultural Diversity and Community
175
24
The Artistic-Aesthetic Curriculum: Leaving Imprints on the Changing Face of the World (1993)
177
9
We Have Found the Wonders of Difference... (1994)
186
6
I Still Wonder at How Unaware I Was of So Many Frequencies... (2000)
192
7
PART V. Spreading the Word
199
10
The Creative Spirit: Keys, Doors and Possibilities (Address to the New York State Board of Regents, 1984)
201
8
Appendix
209
18
References
227
4
Index
231
8
About the Authors
239