This process is both active and reflexive. Subjectivity, in this sense, represents an ongoing construction of the development of the personal lens through which
one sees the world, and through which notions of reality and truth are
shaped. This lens, alongside the stories that are told and the narratives that
give coherence and meaning to life, inform the history that is engaged, the
science that is studied, and the rules of grammar that are employed and
taught (Simon, 1992).