Editor's Note, February 2004
Elizabeth Haller
Instructor, Central Michigan University
E-mail: editoraee@hotmail.com
Welcome to another issue of Academic Exchange Extra. Enjoy this month's submissions, and as you do, consider offering us a piece of your work for publication. The holidays present a slow time for submissions, so we look forward to your contributions now that the holiday season has passed. 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.
With this issue, Lynne Fukuda presents a vibrant entry for her monthly column, "The View From Here." "A Garden of Orchids" is a botanical story exploring what Fukuda learned after joining the Hilo Orchid Society. The preface to her article beautifully sheds light on her chosen topic.
We start this issue off with a featured article by Brian Nudelman titled: "Classed Classrooms: Resistance, Hybrid Discourse, and Working-Class Literacies." Nudelman provides the following summary: "within the last few decades, there has been significant debate between diverging fields of literacy theory on just how to go about defining the term literacy. By closely examining the interstices between ideas of discourse, resistance, and working-class ideology within the classroom, a theory of hybrid discourse will emerge with hopes that present possible 'ways out' for educators attempting to work with the distinct bodies of literacies students enter the systems of higher education each day clutching."
Our second feature this month is David Olsen's "Religion in the Classroom: A Confessional Narrative." Olsen's article "explores a class taught at California State University, Los Angeles, focusing on religion and freedom of expression. By looking at the work of Stephen L. Carter and bell hooks, this paper traces out the complexities of using religious confessionals as a pedagogical method."
Erica Woiwode's final of four groups of poems to be published in AEE leads off this month's Poet's Corner. Woiwode states that "the complications of aerodynamics" is about the "naivete often inherent in the beginning of a youthful love relationship." Her "ruler of the arsenic dreamworld" pertains to the "struggle of a woman to gain control over a man who has 'conquered' her."
Our second contribution to the Corner is a "Poetic Bricolage" by Marlene de Beer. With this data poetry, de Beer "invites you into this space to share some poetically represented data that can be placed within a methodological context of arts-based educational research that explores new forms of data collection and representation. The first poem sets the bricolage scene. Poem two provides a personal reflection after a 2001 Bosnia and Herzegovina field research visit. Poems four and five mirror the theme of sexuality, education, law and policy. Poem three as well as six through ten focus on social cohesion and explore its relevance for education policy and practice, and interventions by international organizations to develop social cohesion through education. Poem eleven brings together education, diversity and social cohesion. I adopt a moral-methodological stance motivated and guided by moral-political objectives in this poetic bricolage and the question remains: do they appeal to your heart?"
On a final note, if you are interested in joining our editorial staff, positions are available. E-mail me for more details.
As always, do not forget to check out Grist for the Mill for possible submission ideas.
Enjoy!
Academic Exchange Extra invites reader responses to any writings in this issue--especially articles advancing the scholarly debate of issues raised.
- Web Editor
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