Please view a PDF version of the article we wrote for the Bainbridge Island Japanese American Community Newsletter: Lived Experiences Informing a More Lived Curriculum: Bearing Witness to the Japanese American Experience of Exclusion
Participants in Only What We Can Carry at the site of the Manzanar Concentration Camp
Almost a century ago, John Dewey wrote about schools being made an authentic form of active community life, rather than “a place set apart in which to learn lessons”. This idea about education is as important today as it was back then. Teaching and learning in the 21st century involves both helping students bear witness to realities past and present, and fostering responsible citizenship in a world of unprecedented interdependence, challenge, and possibility. Through a locally grown initiative called The Only What We Can Carry Project (OWWCC), citizens and educators are bridging classroom and community to integrate lessons about exclusion, inclusion, culture and identity for elementary and secondary students.
2009 OWWCC Delegation to Manzanar
2010 OWWCC Delegation to Manzanar
The Only What We Can Carry Project 2010
Summer Institute
For more information about this program, please contact Global Source
