Contributors to AE-Extra

[Issue 11/2007]

Lynne Fukuda, an instructor of Anthropology at Windward Community College, a part-time instructor of Biology at Hawaii Pacific University, and an instructor at Central Texas College, based in Hawaii at Schofield Barracks. Ms Fukuda is a regular contributor to this journal in her monthly column, “The View from Here.” Her previous column, "Fukuda's Chalkboard," can be found in the January-August 2002 editions of this journal, as well as various other writings in the 2001 editions.

Dan Lukiv, M.Ed., teaches English and creative writing at McNaughton Centre, Quesnel, BC, Canada. He is a poet, novelist, short story and article writer, and an independent education researcher. His writing has appeared over two thousand times in 18 countries. His formal apprenticeship as a writer includes intensive personal direction from masters such as Canada's Professor Robert Harlow, the USA's Paul Bagdon, and England's D. M. Thomas. He edits a literary journal, CHALLENGER international, which focuses attention on young, up-and-coming Canadian poets. He also edits The Journal of Secondary Alternate Education. He is married and has four daughters.

Karenina Lines received her MA in English from California State University where she served as a Teaching Associate. Currently an Adjunct English Instructor at Chaffey College, her specific interests include composition and rhetoric.

Marlene de Beer is a South African national, researcher and registered Social Worker (BA Soc.Sc. honours). She specialized in Community Development (MA Soc.Sc.) and lectured in Community Policing (1994-2000). She has diplomas in Disaster Management as well as Personnel and Training Management and holds certificates in Pubic Relations, Play Therapy, and Spiral Dynamics integral I & II. Most recent commissioned research was with the Pushkin Trust that focused on the emergence of a Pushkin Model on creativity and imagination in education and community development. She is currently working for CIDA City Campus as Consciousness Based Education (CBE) Co-Director & Research Fellow into Consciousness. Her current research interest involves Traditional African cultural traditions and rituals / metaphysical sciences / parapsychology / transpersonal psychology / the study of anomalous phenomena / psychological processes that are anomalous in the sense that they are beyond current scientific understanding / psychical research / mystical experiences / paranormal beliefs /superstition.

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