Self through the Social Studies
Stories are sometimes windows, offering views of worlds that may be real or imagined, familiar or strange. These windows are also sliding glass doors, and readers have only to walk through in imagination to become part of whatever world has been created or recreated by the author. When lighting conditions are just right, however, a window can also be a mirror. Dr. Rudine Sims Bishop
it's a critical thinking revolution, babe!
the South African notion of ubuntu— the idea that people are people only through other people, and that the possibility of knowing and living our own humanity is dependent on the extent to which we are willing to recognize and honor the other, or of an other. That act of mutual recognition is part of the same moral field as love… Love is the name for a complex constellation of ideas and practices and dares that take us outside of the understanding of democracy as being only about power and interest. Kendall Thomas, Achieving Our Country