Quotes

Billings

“One of the questions I consistently ask students at the end of their field experiences is to tell me about one child that they felt was difficult for them to handle. I purposely do not specify what I mean by “difficult.” I want the students to be free to determine what they see as difficult. Overwhelmingly, the students choose a student who is unlike them in racial, ethnic, and gender categories”(105)

“However, the individual narrative is so strong in American culture that we can apply metaphors of self to understanding the nation. Thus, America has a self-esteem problem. We constantly understand ourselves through the mirror of other nations.”(106)

“…it is increasingly important for teacher education to take more global dimensions. Although many of our campuses offer study-abroad possibilities, the demands of teacher education may thwart prospective teachers’ efforts to participate in such programs”(109)

Pollock

“For this type of lesson to be successful in another environment, some key conditions need to exist. First, a school system must provide space for deep questioning of taken-for-granted ideas. A lesson like this interweaves science with social issues. We discussed how science is social and political. The students appreciated that science is not merely objective, but a human enter- prise.” (7)

“Over several centuries, social and natural scientists constructed the myth that “white” people were smarter than non-”white” people. They did so to jus- tify Europeans’ enslavement of Africans, and worldwide European colonial conquest begun in the 1400s.(9)

“Using the word Caucasian invokes scientific racism, the false ideathat races are naturally occurring, biologically ranked subdivisions of the human species and that Caucasians are the supe- rior race.”(13)