Paige Cole, summer seminar participant and leader of the Georgia Satellite Seminar, has a chapter included in the newly-released volume A Critical Inquiry Framework for K-12 Teachers: Lessons and Resources from the U.N. Rights of the Child, edited by JoBeth Allen and Lois Alexander and published simultaneously by the Teachers College Press and the National Writing Project.

In her chapter, “Becoming Thrice Born: 10^th Grade History Students Inquire into the Rights to Culture, Identity, and Freedom of Thought,” Cole recounts her experience as part of the Red Clay Writing Project Rights of the Child program and the ways in which it enhanced her teaching in a rural Georgia school. As part of this undertaking, Cole draws from anthropologist M. N. Srinivas, who outlines the idea of being “thrice-born,” when studying other cultures: born first into our native culture, through study or fieldwork we are born into the culture of the other, then back into our home culture upon our return. The chapter demonstrates how this concept shaped her work with students on a “Culture Project,” an inquiry into historically-based texts such as Tim O’Brien’s If I Die in a Combat Zone and Art Spiegelman’s Maus aimed at leading students to examine their native culture through digital and written narratives.