Editor's Note, June 2004
Elizabeth Haller
Instructor, Central Michigan University
E-mail: editoraee@hotmail.com
Welcome to another issue of Academic Exchange Extra (AEE). Let me begin by welcoming Rebecca Sailor to AEE as a member of our editorial board. Rebecca joined as content editor shortly after our last issue, and she comes to us with much experience in the field of journal publication. We look forward to working with her and encourage you to check out Rebecca's biography appearing in the Editorial Staff section of this issue. If you are interested in joining our editorial staff, positions are available. E-mail me for more details.
Enjoy this month's submissions, and as you do, consider offering us a piece of your work for publication. We invite your continued perusal and remind you that there is still time to submit articles, poetry, and fiction for consideration in the remaining two summer issues of AEE (July and August) and future issues of AEE as well. 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.
In the meantime, we hope you enjoy this month's submissions.
Lynne Fukuda returns with another entry for her monthly column, "The View From Here." Fukuda's article, "Learning in the Field: My Cooperative Educational Experience at Hawaii Volcanoes National Park," is about her adventures as a Volunteer in the Parks (VIP), a position that the Hawaii National Park Service provides for college students. Fukuda states that "it was and is a great way to earn an education out of doors and to gain experience for future work. Now we have service learning and work-based learning and cooperative education as prominent parts of some colleges, but in my day--late 1980s--you had to go out and seek such experience. This type of experience is learning in the field, something far more meaningful than regular classroom instruction. It may inspire students to pursue a different career than the one they imagined and may also change their view of life."
We begin the featured section of this issue with a another article by
Dan Lukiv. This
is the third of seven in a symposium that Mr. Lukiv has generously decided
to share with AEE. 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
Part Four: How is Qualitative
Interview Data Like a Poem?
Part Five: Tact, for the Researcher
and the Educator
Part Six: For Those Who Teach Creative
Writing--Study II of VI
Part Seven: Theory from Phenomenology"
Dr. Susan Jones' article, "The Ten Commandments In Designing Online Courses" is intended to "assist individuals who are either considering or are making the transition from teaching in a classroom setting to teaching online. The issues examined here are ones that have proven to be common regardless of the discipline being taught. Ten tips from an author who has reviewed, trained, participated in the design and development, and taught online courses provide the essentials to creating a quality online course."
Dr. Jim Cain provides our final featured article for this issue. Dr. Cain's "In Defense of Adventure-Based Education and Active Learning Opportunities" is a condensed version of a chapter originally appearing in the 2003 Kendall / Hunt Publication Developing Challenge Course Programs for Schools, edited by Jeff Steffens and Scott Wurdinger. According to Dr. Cain, this article "provides a variety of 'ammunition' that teachers can use when proposing and defending the use of adventure-based and active learning in the classroom."
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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