| Preface: Reflection on Variations on a Blue Guitar | |
| Acknowledgments | |
| Permissions | |
| Introduction: Maxine Greene and Lincoln Center Institute: Setting the Context | 1 |
| Pt. I | Defining Aesthetic Education | 5 |
| Notes on Aesthetic Education (1980) | 7 |
| Opening to Alternative Realities ... (1981) | 44 |
| Making the Petrified World Speak, Sing, and, Perhaps, Dance (1982) | 49 |
| Being Fully Present to Works of Art (1982) | 57 |
| Pt. II | Imagination and Transformation | 65 |
| Uncoupling from the Ordinary (1987) | 67 |
| Fragments Made into Designs: Perceptions and Emergent Patterns (1987) | 73 |
| We Who Are Teachers Know That Imagination Has This Multiple Power ... (1990) | 80 |
| Complex Intuitions in the Perceiver Make Content ... Denser and More Provocative (1990) | 86 |
| Charting Our Own Ways Toward Meaning in Various Works of Art (1995) | 92 |
| The Vibrancy and Tremolos of the Arts for the Person and the Community (1996) | 98 |
| The Open Questions in Classroom Dialogues (1996) | 104 |
| This Is a Place from Which to Perceive the Unexplored ... (1997) | 110 |
| Thinking of Things as if They Could Be Otherwise: The Arts and Intimations of a Better Social Order (1997) | 116 |
| Resistance to Mere Things: Are and the Reach of Intellectual Possibility (2000) | 122 |
| Pt. III | Excellence, Standards, School Renewal and Reform | 131 |
| From Discovery to Expression (1985) | 133 |
| The Wonders of Mystery, the Rejection of Commodification (1994) | 141 |
| The Arts and the Human Condition ... (1995) | 148 |
| The Power of Incompleteness (1997) | 154 |
| Partnerships and the Search for a Common Language (1998) | 161 |
| Reform, Renewal and the Arts (Superintendents Day Lecture, 1999) | 168 |
| Pt. IV | Cultural Diversity and Community | 175 |
| The Artistic-Aesthetic Curriculum: Leaving Imprints on the Changing Face of the World (1993) | 177 |
| ... We Have Found the Wonders of Difference ... (1994) | 186 |
| I Still Wonder at How Unaware I Was of So Many Frequencies ... (2000) | 192 |
| Pt. V | Spreading the Word | 199 |
| The Creative Spirit: Keys, Doors and Possibilities (Address to the New York State Board of Regents, 1984) | 201 |
| Appendix | 209 |
| References | 227 |
| Index | 231 |
| About the Authors | 239 |