“Mountainous regions are labeled, in many languages, as wild, remote, “backwater” zones. The paradox is that this label can be both used disparagingly as an indication of social inferiority and with reverence to refer to sacred zones at the heart of cultures and religions. Mountain ranges are often the sites of violent contestations of national……
For any discussion of power, privilege or identity, it’s important to establish that the lesson is a workshop or open discussion, rather than an opportunity for indoctrination. While this may seem obvious to teachers, it still needs to be stated, as in many cultures the student-teacher relationship is itself a power dynamic. Teachers take on…
Rebuilding Arcadia, Book 1, gives students the opportunity to practice steampunk world-building, either through art projects or creative writing. The series spans several decades but Book 1 focuses on the limited perspective of one teenager. The term After Fallout in the subtitle of each chapter implies a nuclear disaster and the illustrations imply that the…