Christopher Wong

Art 133
Dr. Ward
October 5, 2017
Unit Paper 3
Vulnerability is a sensitive matter what it comes to a classroom. Students start to open up

about themselves and they show things that they would not show others. In a classroom setting,

the way a student thinks is different from the way others think. With visual thinking strategies,

many students will think of different things to answer or interpret a problem. Vulnerability can

be represented how a student thinks by the activities they do at home compared to in school and

they use their creative thinking through those activities to interpret the answer. It could also be

based on social status and how things are done in their households which affects their way of

thinking as well. Students are able to tell a story with which is making them vulnerable.

Students are able to tell demonstrating empathy, and designing innovations (Pink, p. 67). This

is giving a safe space for the students to become more vulnerable and doesnt shame them in the

way they think.

We should let students know that it is okay to be vulnerable and that is how we allow

people to feel the way they want to feel and express the way they want to express their feelings,

thoughts, or emotions. Students will be comfortable in a vulnerable setting knowing they are

unique in their thoughts or they are similar with other students that they didnt know they were.

Vulnerability is something that you have to gain by earning the trust from your students.

Meaning is a drive that exists in all of us-and a combination of external circumstances and

internal will bring it to the surface (Pink, p.217). This shows how we can search for a meaning

with our students by teaching them how to live with one another and be vulnerable with their

ideas and thinking. Vulnerability should be taught in schools so we will learn to love one

another.
 Reference

Pink, D. (2006). A whole new mind: Why right-brainers will rule the future. New York, NY: The
Berkeley Group.