Maxine Greene's Public Space: Beyond the Walls of the Standard Education
Subject Areas :1 , Bakhtiar Shabani Varaki 2 * , Tahereh Javidi Kalateh Jafarabadi 3 , 4
1 - Ferdosi University
2 - Ferdosi University
3 - Ferdosi University
4 - دانشگاه فردوسی مشهد
Keywords: Sandardization, public space, shared world, freedom and democracy in education,
Abstract :
The main purpose of this article is the representation of Maxine Greene views about public space and its major potentials for the rethinking of the educational behavior in schools. Thus, first of all, this idea is emphasized that public spaces are important places for discussion (for dialog) and a free exchange of ideas and information, through which an individual human being can make his voice heard, while at the same time listening to other individuals’ voices, without being bothered by any fear and threat arising from a wide range of human contradictions, differences, conflicts and ambiguities that are inherent in human communication. Second, along with describing and criticizing the educational space governing the current schools, based on Greene ideas, it is demonstrated that the public space can provide new contexts for going beyond educational standards, and thus may secure grounds for the realization of agency, freedom, democracy and a shared world in the education of learners.
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