瑪剋辛·格林（Maxine Greene），美國當代著名教育思想傢，社會活動傢，世界教育哲學界的代錶人物，1965年起任職美國哥倫比亞大學教師學院教授。瑪剋辛—格林是美國教育研究協會的第壹位女性主席，也曾擔任美國教育研究聯閤會和教育哲學協會主席。她於1976—2012年擔任美國林肯藝術中心長駐哲學傢，2003年創立瑪剋辛·格林之傢，以社會想象、美學、教育為核心理念，關注文學、藝術、哲學的跨學科探索，為美國公立教育提供瞭新的視域。她的著作以及永不懈怠的教育責任感，對一代代教師、研究者以及學校改革活動傢産生瞭巨大影響。2004年，哥倫比亞大學教師學院董事會為錶彰瑪剋辛·格林對教育所做的傑齣貢獻設置瞭瑪剋辛·格林教授席位。

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"This remarkable set of essays defines the role of imagination in general education, arts education, aesthetics, literature, and the social and multicultural context.... The author argues for schools to be restructured as places where students reach out for meanings and where the previously silenced or unheard may have a voice. She invites readers to develop processes to enhance and cultivate their own visions through the application of imagination and the arts. Releasing the Imagination should be required reading for all educators, particularly those in teacher education, and for general and academic readers."--Choice

"Maxine Greene, with her customary eloquence, makes an impassioned argument for using the arts as a tool for opening minds and for breaking down the barriers to imagining the realities of worlds other than our own familiar cultures.... There is a strong rhythm to the thoughts, the arguments, and the entire sequence of essays presented here."--American Journal of Education