7/4/08 8:41 AM Educational Insights | Volume 12, Number 1, 2008 | Shaireen Rasheed | Shad…of Greene—A Pedagogy Of Pluralism The Aesthetic Reality Of Literary Worlds Page 1 of 10 http://ccfi.educ.ubc.ca/publication/insights/v12n01/articles/rasheed/index.html Rasheed, S. Shades of Greene—A Pedagogy Of Pluralism : The Aesthetic Reality Of Literary Worlds Educational Insights, 12 (1). [Available: http://www.ccfi.educ.ubc.ca/publication/insights/v12n01/articles/rasheed/index.html] Shades of Greene—A Pedagogy Of Pluralism: The Aesthetic Reality Of Literary Worlds Shaireen Rasheed C. W. Post Campus of Long Island University, Brookville, New York art credit Sarah MacKenzie Accessibility, which is a process, is often taken for a natural, self-evident state of language. What is perpetuated in its name is a given form of intolerance and an unacknowledged practice of exclusion. Thus, as long as the complexity and difficulty of engaging with the diversely hybrid experiences of heterogeneous contemporary societies are denied and not dealt with, binary thinking continues to mark time while the creative interval is dangerously reduced to non-existence. —Minh-ha, 1991, 228-229 For Maxine Greene, critical pedagogy is not a standardized methodology but a process that accounts both for social, political, and historical conditions and for the perspectives and considerations of the participants of a given moment. In her words, “because the problems