The Work of Unlearning & Questioning: Classes of Identity & Social Justice
Honors 211: Stories of Knowledge
(Winter 2015) During the winter of my junior year I took an Honors class which engaged a small group of students in a way I had never experienced in a classroom before. Over the course of the quarter I learned not only the names of each of my classmates--which is more than I can say even for the other Honors classes I've participated in--but also their stories. I came to trust and be inspired by them, by the different ways they thought and approached their learning and the different lessons and perspectives they had on life and brought to contribute. This class moved me to laughter and to tears; sometimes I moved myself to tears, and it made me think strongly about my own passions, values, and take ownership of my own ideas, identity, and potential for creativity. The class demanded that each of us draw out the creativity we all naturally had, whether we recognized it or not, and in doing so I think we each left having learned a lot more about ourselves and with a lot more confidence in the value of our individuality. One of the thought-provoking activities our class took part in was to write out a web of identities for ourselves, which could be anything we wanted. We were then asked to write a story about one of our identities. My own included words like runner, student, sister, introvert...and the one I chose to write about "a rock". |
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The identity I chose to write about is one which I strive to be in my communities and relationships: as a "rock", I am someone who is grounding and reliable for others.
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