1. “What it Means to Educate and be Educated” “Language, dialectics, gestural systems, and participation structures through which children make sense with each other are not the same as the codes used by the teachers who generally come from a more powerful social group” Trueba, (1989).

2. Americanizing the Students  “If I find I am becoming one of the traditionalists, then I know I am getting old and I had better get out.”  “ I think she changes her lesson design to meet the needs of the [students] and she listens to what they have to say. She is interested in what they have to say. She has a good sense of humor. She adapts, every day is a new day for the child,”…

3. … described stories that are told as incomplete,[…] it is in the telling that meaning is established.  There was no penalty  Classroom was not as quiet as most  She experienced what it means to be the “other” (Peace Corps???)  Classroom was not as “institutionalized”

4. Education as Multicultural x Multicultural Education  Celebrate multiculturalism not as token approach or “tourist curriculum”  Vehicle to rehumanize education. Teachers are not response columns in surveys, but human begins consciously shaping practices with young children. Teachers are people…  Teachers also need to tell their stories  Child centered education

5. Intersubjectivity  “ But what has not been mentioned is the meaning that is constructed by you, the reader. Writers tend to assume that readers are gender and experientially neutral, but they are not.”

6. “The meaning of a text lies less in its origins than in its destination. Readers of texts are free to read what they want to read. So you can agree, but you are also free to resist, or to contribute your own readings.”

7. Release our educational imagination  “You can resist my intensions and contest my meanings. You, [can bring] another set of experiences to this story, and the intersubjectivity will be reconstructed in a different way.  It is this process of reconstruction that enables you to connect with the story so that you can find meaning for your own experience.