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ACADEMIC EXCHANGE EXTRA'S

"Grist for the Mill"

Thoughts and Questions for You, Our Readers

Visual Media/Career Changes/The "Road Trip"

On this page, we hope to stir your thinking about issues and ideas as they intersect with the theoretical and the tangible: in short, to make education more practical and relevant for everyone. We invite responses to these topics (and many others) in the form of papers, essays, well-grounded opinion pieces, fiction, and poetry. All college and university students and instructors, K-12 teachers, and education administrators are encouraged to reply. (Please see our CFP at: http://asstudents.unco.edu/students/AE-Extra/Call.htm before submitting. Send submissions as Word attachments to the e-mail address below, and please include a brief bio that includes full contact information.

Visual Media:

• In what ways has our culture become more of a "visual" one? Are there any profound effects from this shift?
• Does a visual culture impact the sexes equally? If not, which gender is more influenced by it, and why?
• How does our visual culture impact the psychology of children?
• How has our visual culture changed pedagogy?

Career Changes:

• How are career changes viewed from culture to culture? Who has the most "healthy" outlook on career changes? The most unhealthy? Why?
• What has been your most successful career change? What necessitated it? How did it impact your self-esteem or your professional self-image?
• Do career changes perpetuate a sense of materialism?
• Do men and women view careers in the same way?

The "Road Trip"

• How--and why--has travel been such an important part of American culture?
• Where do we get our "mystique" of the open road?
• How has travel narrative changed over the last 150 years?
• Is there such a thing as an "unbiased" travel notebook?

 

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Academic Exchange Extra invites reader responses to any writings in this issue--especially articles advancing the scholarly debate of issues raised.

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