Editor's Note, November 2004
Elizabeth Haller
PhD Student +
Instructor, Kent State University
E-mail: editoraee@hotmail.com
Enjoy this issue's submissions, and as you do, consider offering us a piece of your work for publication. We invite your continued perusal and encourage you to submit articles, poetry, and fiction for consideration in future issues of AEE. Please review our Call for Papers on this site for more details on submission requirements. If you are unsure whether your contribution would be suitable under the terms of our Call for Papers, please send along an inquiry, and I will be happy to respond forthwith. As always, do not forget to check out Grist for the Mill for possible submission ideas.
A reminder that if you are interested in joining our editorial staff, positions are available. Please e-mail me for more details.
Lynne Fukuda returns with another entry for her monthly column, "The View From Here." Fukuda's article is the final installment of a four part study titled, "Study in the Sun on a Desert Island: My Adventures on the Northwestern Hawaii Islands." Please see theJuly/August, September, and October 2004 issues of AEE for parts one through three of her intriguing adventure. Fukuda states:
"It was with great reluctance that I left the field, but as with many types of fieldwork, there is always the possibility of burnout. Perhaps, if I did not spend only a summer but had stayed on for a year or two, I may have encountered difficulties that would not have made my life on Tern Island such a pleasure. A few inhabitants there made the sacrifice to do research by being separated from loved ones. One of them sustained an injury that made him lose a tooth. But as I look back, I am forever thankful for the phase in my life when I learned how to do scientific research and appreciate the continuing efforts of all people involved in biological research and conservation. It is due to these individuals that we are able to protect and preserve the treasures we received from Earth. I hope that our government continues to protect and create sanctuaries for wildlife, away from humans, untouched and forever wild, for they are the riches beyond measure. It is in these Hawaiian Islands that we have the highest biodiversity and the most endangered species. I hope that we will be able to preserve them for generations to come."
We start this issue off with a featured article by Dan Lukiv. This is the final installment of the symposium that Mr. Lukiv has so generously decided to share with AEE. We hope you have enjoyed his contributions as much as we have and look forward to additional contributions in the future. According to Mr. Lukiv,
"This symposium of seven parts discusses: two phenomenological studies that explored lived school experiences that had encouraged two people to become creative writers (part one and part two); the abstract versus concrete sides of phenomenology (part two); bracketing out bias and bracketing in possibilities (defined in part three); the implicit nature of interview data and poetry (part four); the need for educators and researchers to use tact (part five); and the precepts of something I call Theory from Phenomenology (defined in part seven). I have tried to avoid abstract language as much as possible to make the work accessible to readers unfamiliar with phenomenological inquiry.
Part One: For Those Who Teach Creative Writing--Study I of VI (see AEE April 2004 Issue)
Part Two: Phenomenology: The Abstract and the Concrete (see AEE May 2004 Issue
Part Three: Bracketing and Phenomenology (see AEE June 2004 issue)
Part Four: How is Qualitative Interview Data Like a Poem? (see AEE July/August 2004 issue)
Part Five: Tact, for the Researcher and the Educator (see AEE September 2004 issue)Part Six: For Those Who Teach Creative Writing--Study II of VI (see AEE October 2004 issue)
Part Seven: Theory from Phenomenology"
Dan Lukiv also provides a contribution to this month's Poet's Corner with the final installment of a two part selection of poems titled "For the Math Gyze" (see October 2004 issue for part one). These poems
"take a satirical look at life for some students in the math (and physics) departments, drawing on many of my own experiences. I feel that the two worlds of intuitive imagination and logic, both of which find themselves married and necessary in mathematical thought, find their place in many creative pursuits, in particular, in the writing of poetry. I could have called the collection 'The Boomerang Poems.' I have taken experiences from math and physics classes and given them back to the halls of academia in the form of poems. I hope readers have a good time reading [this selection] and encourage them to [email me] about their reactions."
"Mariachi Music in the Public Schools: A Coping Strategy for Acculturating Students" by Eric J. López, Ph.D., is our second featured article of this issue. This article "discusses how Mariachi programs assist Mexican and Mexican American students struggling with the acculturation process in public schools. It further confers how these programs function and the skills developed by the participants. The goal is to bring light to this unique art form that serves to enhance school experiences and musical skills."
Sara Marcus rounds out this issue with her article, "Leadership in Implementing Hybrid Usage of NLS in Theatre Arts Courses." Marcus provides an evaluation of the "types of leadership needed to introduce the innovation of using a networked learning system in a hybrid setting for theatre arts courses at the university level. Experiences with one instructor of theatre arts were used to ascertain how future implementation of the innovation at a university might best be lead."
Enjoy!
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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