Editor's Note, May 2008
Elizabeth Haller
PhD Candidate and Instructor, Kent State University
E-mail: editoraee@hotmail.com
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.
“The View from Here” columnist Lynne Fukuda returns with “Counseling with Heart: Journal of a High School Counselor”. Fukuda dedicates this month’s column to:
"All students, especially to my students—in the small private school in a secret part of Hawaii—who taught me to be a good counselor. Dedicated to all war veterans and their families who will become part of the future student population, wounded and in need of healing, who will be eager to learn in our colleges. Bless all students and their teachers and counselors for enriching our world."
Dan Lukiv starts off AEE’s feature articles with the final installment of his children’s novel titled “Quibils and Quirks”. The original text of this work was serialized in The Cariboo Observer during 1997 through 1999. According to Lukiv, this project, consisting of 108 short chapters, is designed for serialization and works perfectly for teachers who like reading to their students daily. As such, we have run this novel with eleven chapters per issue beginning with the September 2007 issue of AEE. Please refer to the August 2007 issue to read the “Forward” to this inventive work.
The second feature of this issue, “Representing Ourselves Through Syllabi: Do We Say What We Mean?”, comes to use from Kathleen Maloney According to Maloney, her article:
"considers the question of whether or not an instructor’s teaching philosophy is evident in the syllabus for a course. The contested nature of the syllabus is explored. Given its multiple audiences and purposes, the syllabus is either the ideal document to discuss with students in a composition course or works as a case study for how badly communication works if the author is forced to consider multiple rhetorical considerations."
The final feature of this issue is titled, “Essence of True Learning”. Author Neerja Arun states:
"Learning is taken as the choice of subjects and the evaluation methods of what is taught, ignoring that the sources of information lie outside, but the way they are processed and observed depends on what is within us. The desire for good and the search for truth are real and active components of every human life; all learning comes from within. The question then arises whether it is possible to develop a mind that simultaneously acquires not only the knowledge needed to live but also constantly learns. If we really do have a capacity to develop psychologically toward greater integration, consciousness and wholeness, it means we have a capacity to develop not just horizontally as in the expansion of knowledge and skills but also vertically as in the evolution and transcendence of ourselves, our perspectives and world views. Vertical education for transcendence and integration moves beyond horizontal expansion, and through its challenges and support of growth and development promotes those processes integration and transformation."
This month’s Poet’s Corner contribution, “A New Day is Dawning”, comes to us from Geraldine Rose Daniels, who states:
“This poem is about ending war and strife as well as accepting the differences in others no matter where they live in the world. It was written while I was serving in Saudia Arabia in Desert Shield/Storm.”
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