Urging all of us to open our minds and hearts so that we can know beyond the boundaries of what is acceptable, so that we can think and rethink, so that we can create new visions, I celebrate teaching that enables transgressions—a movement against and beyond boundaries. It is that movement which makes education the practice of freedom. bell hooks (1994).

Like bell hooks, I too see teaching as an opportunity to empower students to broaden their cognitive surroundings, to step outside the proverbial box, to challenge traditional boundaries and therefore to arouse/kindle/stimulate new modes of thinking which may in turn generate new visions. This transformational learning requires students to make the familiar strange and to begin to question their personal world truths and how they became established. Once students recognize their own boundaries as being constructed, they may then challenge and perhaps move beyond them. This recognition and challenging of personal boundaries both empowers and transforms students.

	Dr. Sandy White Watson
	Assistant Professor of Science Education University of Tennessee 615 McCallie Avenue, Dept. 4154 Chattanooga, TN 37403