The Public School and the Private Vision: A Search for America in Education and Literature

by Maxine Greene

Book Overview

Maxine Greene, one of the leading educational philosophers of the past fifty years, remains "an idol to thousands of educators," according to the New York Times. In The Public School and the Private Vision, first published in 1965 but out of print for many years, Greene traces the complex interplay of literature and public education from the 1830s to the 1960s--and now, in a new preface, to the present. With rare eloquence she affirms...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1595581820
• ISBN13: 9781595581822
• Release Date: June 2007
• Publisher: New Press
• Length: 175 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 8.4"