JoinReflections on a Journey
As educators, we must be willing to reinvent our worlds as we learn new things; to re-examine our conceptions as we encounter new views; and to re-evaluate our own subjective interactions with the new material. As part of a pilot Earthwatch-Conservation International team, the author had a chance to do exactly that. This article provides a reflection of her experiences while on a journey to the Pantanal, Brazil, and describes how it had enormous repercussions in her classroom.