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Religious Communication Scholarship as “Going Nowhere Correctly”
Authors: Errera David ,   Religious Communication Association
Published: March 2024

This article clarifies and extends “going nowhere correctly” (Arnett, 2010) as a metaphor for religious communication scholarship. The temporal context of “going nowhere correctly” is clarified by analyzing Augustine’s philosophy of time in Confessions. The existential conditions are clarified by analyzing the play Waiting for Godot. I propose that in practical religious discourse, “going nowhere correctly” implies a religious discourse of speaking while dwelling, which amounts to a form of epideictic rhetorical discourse. Further, I propose that a turn to this epideictic discourse remedies some problems in contemporary religious communication.
Implementation of Electronic Medical Record System in Indonesia Viewed from the Perspective of Legal Certainty
Authors: Novianti  , Handar Subhandi Bakhtiar
Published: March 2024

Indonesia's Health Transformation is rapidly advancing, marked by the launch of six Pillars of Health Transformation, including the Health Technology Transformation Pillar. The implementation of Electronic Medical Records (EMR) is a key component of this transformation, aiming to transition health records from paper to electronic form, with the government emphasizing the need for secure data management, as outlined in the Regulation of the Minister of Health of the Republic of Indonesia number 24 of 2022. The purpose of this study is to analyze the implementation of the Electronic Medical Record System in Indonesia which has one important and strategic aspect, namely in relation to existence as one of the pillars of health technology transformation in realizing national health and as a condition for indicators of realizing people's welfare mandated in the Preamble of the 1945 Constitution as a national goal. Its implementation is regulated according to the applicable laws and regulations in Law No. 17 of 2023 concerning Health, as well as specifically in Minister of Health Regulation No. 24 of 2022 concerning Medical Records. The method used is Normative Juridic. As part of the health service system, the role of the Electronic Medical Record System is very strategic in the quality of health services. The quality of health services is greatly influenced by the successful implementation of the Electronic Medical Record System. This will boil down to the regulation regarding the Electronic Medical Record in question. Currently, the laws governing RME are Law Number 17 of 2023 concerning Health and Minister of Health Regulation Number 24 of 2022 concerning Medical Records. In both regulations, it is regulated on the Implementation of Medical Records, it is formulated that Medical Records are one of the implementation of the pillars of health transformation in the realization of state goals mandated in the 1945 Constitution, especially to improve the nation's health through a sustainable Electronic Medical Record system. Although various obstacles were found in the implementation of the RME, one of them was related to the Electronic Medical Record System used, one of which was related to the security and confidentiality of patient health data. The conclusion in this study will be further examined the implementation of the Electronic Medical Record System which is still experiencing problems in terms of security and confidentiality of Electronic Medical Record data in Indonesia.
Data-Driven Sustainability: Leveraging Big Data and Machine Learning to Build a Greener Future
Authors: Mohammed Mostafa Abdulghafoor , Ahmed Munef Abdullah , Hacimahmud Abdullayev Vugar
Published: March 2024

Environmental challenges like climate change and resource depletion necessitate sustainable solutions that balance present and future needs. Advanced information technologies offer immense potential for confronting these issues via data-driven intelligence. This paper explores frameworks harnessing big data and machine learning (ML) to promote ecological sustainability across contexts like energy, agriculture, conservation and resilience. First, we review existing literature establishing this domain as an emerging transdisciplinary field. Next, we propose an architectural pipeline encompassing: (i) multi-modal data acquisition from sensors, surveys and satellites; (ii) preprocessing via cleaning, integration and transformation; (iii) application of supervised algorithms for prediction and unsupervised techniques for pattern discovery tailored to sustainability objectives; (iv) cloud-based model operationalization. Through sample use cases on optimizing renewables forecasting, boosting efficiency of infrastructure systems and monitoring ecosystems, we demonstrate analytical versatility. However, challenges around bias, transparency and scale necessitate ethical governance. Nonetheless, prudent development of specialized ML solutions offers sociotechnical instruments for evidence-driven sustainability planning and impactful interventions promoting resilience and welfare globally. This research aims to advance computational sustainability by outlining conceptual foundations, architectures and directions for real-world deployments of artificial intelligence that align with ecological priorities for current and upcoming generations worldwide.
Analyzing Ghana's Pharmacy Act, 1994 (Act 489) Regarding Quality Control and Negligence Liability Measures for Artificial Intelligence Pharmacy Systems
Authors: Mensah George Benneh , M. Mijwil Maad , Adamopoulos Ioannis
Published: March 2024

The objective of this systematic review was to assess the adequacy of current medication management in Ghana considering the risks posed by increased artificial intelligence (AI) automation in pharmacies worldwide A qualitative comparative approach was used despite reviewed the Ghana 1994 Pharmacy Act against recognition of AI challenges and international governance guidelines . The results revealed flaws in terms of quality prerequisites, transparency checklists and liability mechanisms developed for AI systems compared to existing regulations of the manual process. Outdated approaches to patient care that fail to ensure patient safety or address threats to the accuracy of recommendations from data collection biases and technical errors. Proposed changes include a requirement for usability testing before approving AI pharmacy deployments and the creation of a review board to review post-implementation systems for validity. Updating regulations to deal with modern equipment puts innovation and responsible regulation in the fast-paced healthcare industry. This study contributes significantly to preliminary research on AI policy readiness in the Ghanaian legal context, and suggests a feasible methodology for exploring qualitative differences for use in companies and countries competing for technology a disturbing, increasingly beyond the date code. Early government reform helps keep pace with the realities of adoption.
Impact of IoT-Based Environmental Monitoring on Lab Safety and Sustainability
Authors: Hussein Nadia Mahmoud , Mohialden Yasmin Makki , Salman Saba Abdulbaqi
Published: March 2024

Several internal and external dangers might threaten a laboratory, the institution, and the public if not addressed properly. These hazards are addressed by our extensive laboratory monitoring system. This device detects elevated temperatures, gas leaks, fires, and solution pH. Elements of this system include an Esp32 microcontroller, LCD, Arduino Uno, mq2 gas sensor, DS18B20 temperature sensor, flame sensor, relay, water pump, and pH sensor for acidity measurement. The Arduino IDE controls sensors. Once the temperature reaches 50 degrees Celsius, an alarm, red LED, and mobile phone notification activate. Gas leaks activate a green LED, an alarm, and a message. Flame sensors notify and start water pumps when fires occur. Gas leaks and fires activate a buzzer. The IoT offers essential incident reporting and remote laboratory monitoring. The code is written in Arduino C++.
Analysis and Design of Steel Silo using STAAD.ProV8i
Authors: Rehman Khalil Ur , Wang KangLe
Published: March 2024

Generally silo is a storage structure for heavy bulk materials such as cement coal, wood, food products and saw dust. Its design involves materials, geometry, and structural considerations. This research considered a special structure steel silo treated with myriad conventional and unconventional loading conditions, varied from some tonnes to many of tonnes which findings in uncommon modes of failure. Silo Specifications of 14m height and 3m diameter was designed with section ISMB 300 and ISA 70x70x10mm as per Indian standards. In addition, the plan and section of the silo wad done by the AutoCADD 2018 software. modelling, dynamic analysis and designs were completer in STAAD PRO V8i.Besides, the silo was designed as per Indian standards IS 800.The maximum axial force and shear force of the steel silo were 15.9 KN and 0.037 KN respectively. The aim of this paper was to determined the Plate stress, contour lines, and critical support of the silo, beam end force summary and steel take off of the silo structure.

Generally silo is a storage structure for heavy bulk materials such as cement coal, wood, food products and saw dust. Its design involves materials, geometry, and structural considerations. This research considered a special structure steel silo treated with myriad conventional and unconventional loading conditions, varied from some tonnes to many of tonnes which findings in uncommon modes of failure. Silo Specifications of 14m height and 3m diameter was designed with section ISMB 300 and ISA 70x70x10mm as per Indian standards. In addition, the plan and section of the silo wad done by the AutoCADD 2018 software. modelling, dynamic analysis and designs were completer in STAAD PRO V8i.Besides, the silo was designed as per Indian standards IS 800.The maximum axial force and shear force of the steel silo were 15.9 KN and 0.037 KN respectively. The aim of this paper was to determined the Plate stress, contour lines, and critical support of the silo, beam end force summary and steel take off of the silo structure.
Image Enhancement using Convolution Neural Networks
Authors: Salman Hasan Ahmed , Kalakech Ali
Published: March 2024

The research presents a comprehensive exploration of the topic of image enhancement using convolutional neural networks (CNN).The research goes deeper into the advanced field of image processing based on the use of neural networks to automatically and efficiently improve the quality and detail of images. The thesis shows that convolutional neural networks are one of the types of deep neural networks, which are specially designed to gain knowledge from big data and extract complex features and patterns found in images. The different layers of the grid are discussed in detail, dealing with images incrementally and extracting different attributes in each layer. The research also highlights CNN's ability to detect, learn and improve important details found in images through convolutions, filtering and data aggregation processes. The proposed CNN image enhancement model was developed and tested on both medical and normal images. The images were optimized using the proposed model and compared with other models. Various quality measures were used to evaluate the results. The results showed that the proposed model can significantly improve the quality of images.
Role of Technology in Shaping Future of Education
Authors: Jain Dr. Ruby
Published: March 2024

COVID-19 epidemic has caused a fundamental transformation inhow we learn and how we teach, leaving an enduring effect on the educational system. The rapid adoption and use of educational technology (EdTech) steadily become a means to guarantee smooth learning by this unexpected circumstance. EdTech has become a major facilitator, facilitating both educational institutions and educational seekers to learn new set of skill and adapt to the demands of changing world, independent of geographic constraints. EdTech combines technology and digital media with conventional teaching methods to enable multimodal of learning. This offers flexibility, convenience, improves engagement, and produces learning solutions that are globally recognised. The aim of the chapter is to bring key insights about the increasing role of technology in opening new areas of learning in education industry
Race: The Absent Presence in Composition Studies
Authors: Prendergast Catherine
Published: March 2024

What composition studies can take from critical race theory is an awareness that if we are to understand the mechanisms (like racism) that prevent some students from being heard, we need to recognize that our rhetoric is one which continually inscribes our students as foreigners. (Prendergast 51).
Bi, Butch, and Bar Dyke: Pedagogical Performances of Class, Gender, and Sexuality
Authors: Gibson Michelle , Marinara Martha , Meem Deborah
Published: March 2024

Current theories of radical pedagogy stress the constant undermining, on the part of both professors and students, of fixed essential identities. This article examines the way three feminist, queer teachers of writing experience and perform their gender, class, and sexual identities. We critique both the academy’s tendency to neutralize the political aspects of identity performance and the essentialist identity politics that still inform many academic discussions.
Interrogating the Monologue: Making Whiteness Visible
Authors: Marshall Ian , Ryden Wendy
Published: March 2024

The authors attempt to confront the construction of “whiteness” as a silent but potent epistemology that pervades writing instruction and contributes to racism within academic institutions. Pedagogical practices as well as university policies are discussed, focusing particularly on the subject positions of “black” and “white” for both students and instructors.
The Last of the Mohicans and the Languages of America
Authors: Rosenwald Lawrence
Published: March 2024

Offers a sustained linguistic analysis of James Fenimore Cooper’s “The Last of the Mohicans.” Finds that, because Cooper’s technical blunders and moral limitations are always in view, they are revelatory. Suggests that no American author has gotten more things wrong about languages; but no one has dramatized more about how languages function in the American experience.
Magic and Memory in the Contemporary Story Cycle: Gloria Naylor and Louise Erdrich
Authors: Cox Karen Castellucci
Published: March 2024

Examines representatives of the story cycle genre--Louise Erdrich’s “Love Medicine” and Gloria Naylor’s “The Women of Brewster Place.” Examines a revisionary episode from each text to situate story cycles in a frame that embraces both Western and non-Western traditions. Suggests that scholars, teachers, and students see and celebrate the diverse realities of spirituality, magic, and communal memory.Examines representatives of the story cycle genre--Louise Erdrich’s "Love Medicine" and Gloria Naylor’s "The Women of Brewster Place." Examines a revisionary episode from each text to situate story cycles in a frame that embraces both Western and non-Western traditions. Suggests that scholars, teachers, and students see and celebrate the diverse realities of spirituality, magic, and communal memory.
The Problematic of Experience: Redefining Critical Work in Ethnography and Pedagogy
Authors: Lu Min–Zhan , Horner Bruce
Published: March 2024

Explores the convergence between projects in ethnographic research and composition pedagogy that emphasize the critical power of experience. Argues that critical ethnography and pedagogy need to redefine “experience” and its function for research and teaching and that composition can help this redefinition by looking for ways to build and constructively use a tension between teaching and research practices.
Double Desire: Overlapping Discourses in a Film Writing Course
Authors: Wood Winifred J.
Published: March 2024

Explores the convergence between projects in ethnographic research and composition pedagogy that emphasize the critical power of experience. Argues that critical ethnography and pedagogy need to redefine “experience” and its function for research and teaching and that composition can help this redefinition by looking for ways to build and constructively use a tension between teaching and research practices.
Indecent Proposals: Teachers in the Movies
Authors: Bauer Dale M.
Published: March 2024

Focuses on images of teachers (particularly English teachers) in films. Argues that understanding how society views teachers through the prism of cultural imagination can productively challenge the profession to create its own pedagogical images. Suggests that, although these films depict the teacher’s sexuality to define its proper limits, the drama of eroticized teaching obscures larger concerns over classroom politics.
The Language of Coats
Authors: Sommers Nancy
Published: March 2024

Compares 20 years of teaching college writing (and reading countless drafts of student papers) to an immigrant father’s working 40 years in the family store in Terre Haute, Indiana (and selling 350,000 coats).
Methods, Truths, Reasons
Authors: Porter Kevin J.
Published: March 2024

Advocates a position on the margins of English studies. Provides a general introduction to analytic philosophy of language. Elaborates Donald Davidson’s work on interpretation, which demonstrates why truth and rationality are inextricably linked to language and communication. Calls for reconfiguring the debate between and assessment of the disparate methodologies of English studies.
Sexuality, Textuality: The Cultural Work of Plagiarism
Authors: Howard Rebecca Moore
Published: March 2024

Considers how plagiarism continues to elude definition because teachers cannot possibly formulate and act on a definition of plagiarism that articulates both its textual and sexual work. Discusses linking sexual property to textual transgression and rejecting metaphors in relationship to rejecting plagiarism. Suggests educators stop using the term plagiarism altogether and replace it with “fraud,” “insufficient citation,” and “excessive repetition.”
Beyond Bakhtin: Toward a Cultural Stylistics
Authors: France Alan W.
Published: March 2024

Argues that both composition and literary studies have a common pedagogical vocation and that by harvIndicates how current stylistic criticism might engage ideological issues by more fully developing M. Bakhtin’s ideas through an approach called cultural stylistics. Notes that Bakhtin’s own work was very much concerned with the divorce between ideological and formalist analysis, and his “sociological stylistics” was intended to synthesize the two.
Don’t Lecture Me: A Case Study of Performance Pedagogy
Authors: Kraemer Don
Published: March 2024

Explores and problematizes the author’s colleague’s teaching performance, using the colleague’s own performance theory and an Initiation-Reply-Evaluation (IRE) framework of pedagogical principles. Reconsiders the author’s own assumptions about IRE and teaching. Finds the colleague’s teaching to be a model of what political struggle should enable: systemic, improvisational, mutually but asymmetrically developed liminality. Full article available in print version only.
Good/Bad Girls Read Together: Pre–adolescent Girls Co–authorship of Feminine Subject Positions During a Shared Reading Event
Authors: Enciso Patricia E.
Published: March 2024

Discusses reading with pre–teens Francine Pascal’s “Sweet Valley Twins: Best Friends,” one of a series of pre–romance novels featuring identical twin sisters. Interviews six girls using the Symbolic Representation Interview (SRI) about the good girl/bad girl dichotomy in novels and other media. Provides comments by Tom Romano and Diana Mitchell. In Response: Tom Romano, Diana Mitchell
Reading the Classroom as Text: A Heuristic for Classroom Inquiry
Authors: VanDeWeghe Rick , Reid Louann
Published: March 2024

Finds the metaphor of reading the classroom as “text” is (1) easy in that all it takes is an orientation that asks what the classroom has to teach; and (2) difficult in that what it has to teach is complex, multi-layered, and often conflictive. Provides a heuristic to guide teachers in viewing and understanding the classroom as text.
Preparing English Teacher Educators: Defining a Process
Authors: Young Martha
Published: March 2024

Reviews the activities of the Conference on English Education (CEE) Commission on the Preparation of English Teacher Educators during the period 1988-1998. Discusses the 12 principles that led to a definition of what English teacher educator preparers must be able to know and to do under the categories “self-awareness,” “pedagogical issues,” and “knowledge-base.”
Teaching and Learning in the 21st Century
Authors: Gutiérrez Kris
Published: March 2024

Suggests that the current frameworks for language instruction have become unproductive models in practice. Claims teachers should be provided ongoing opportunities to understand the role of culture in learning, particularly in language and literacy development. Offers recommendations based on studies of effective literacy practices in urban schools with large numbers of English Language Learners.
Rhetorical Grammar: A Modification Lesson
Authors: Kolln Martha
Published: March 2024

Martha Kolln’s “Rhetorical Grammar: A Modification Lesson” from the November 1996 issue of English Journal not only defines the rhetorical grammar as opposed to prescriptive grammar but also gives some history on why the benefits of teaching grammar have been so misunderstood.
What English Teachers Need to Know about Grammar
Authors: Murdick William
Published: March 2024

William Murdick tells us “What English Teachers Need to Know about Grammar” in his article by the same title.
Correct Grammar So Essential to Effective Writing Can Be Taught-Really
Authors: Brown Alvin R.
Published: March 2024

Alvin R. Brown’s “Correct Grammar So Essential to Effective Writing Can Be Taught—Really!” suggests ways, even humorous ways, of teaching grammar and usage.
Rainbow Teachers Rainbow Students: Power Brokers at the Gateway of Language Use
Authors: Cruz MaryCarmen , Duff Ogle Burks
Published: March 2024

Discusses two English-as-a-second-language high school students whose language proficiencies are subtle. Discusses opportunities for such students to use language powerfully. Addresses attitude and student performance, and building lessons that lead to success.
Today’s Teens, Their Problems, and Their Literature: Revisiting G. Robert Carlsen’s Books and the Teenage Reader Thirty Years Later
Authors: Carroll Pamela Sissi
Published: March 2024

Revisits G. Robert Carlsen’s call for the use of young adult literature in the classroom by looking specifically at the emotional and reading needs of older adolescents, those in the upper grades. Discusses problems associated with adolescence in the late twentieth century and lists recommended young adult books that touch on those issues.
Horace’s Frustration, Horace’s Hope
Authors: Sizer Theodore R.
Published: March 2024

In this article, Theodore R. Sizer uses his fictional composite English teacher Horace to help him talk about how the traditional, rigid structure of high school impedes learning. He mentions standards, assessments, and new high school structures.
Rethinking Curriculum in the English Language Arts
Authors: Applebee Arthur N.
Published: March 2024

Arthur N. Applebee, in “Rethinking Curriculum in the English Language Arts,” discusses his study and its conclusions based on “what shapes teachers” curricular decisions, how these decisions play out in the classroom, and the nature of the curriculum that evolves. An American Literature curriculum is the focus of the case study in the article.
School Reform and the High School Proficiency Test
Authors: Shafer Gregory
Published: March 2024

Cautions against a statewide proficiency test based on the author’s experience as a high school English teacher with the Michigan High School Proficiency Test. Discusses how, while meant to foster accountability, rigor, and standards, the test instead creates panic, uniformity, and a subversion of sound language arts practice. Discusses how this and other such tests hinder sensible English instruction.
Educational Reform: A Drama in Three Acts
Authors: Heyd Suzanne H. , Sawyer Mary H.
Published: March 2024

Uses the form of an original three-act drama to sketch the dilemmas of educational reform. Highlights the experiences of a teacher struggling to reform language arts instruction and assessment in a traditional urban high school.
Coming To Terms: Reflective Practice
Authors: Krol Christine A.
Published: March 2024

Describes and discusses the term “reflective practice,” discussing John Dewey’s and Donald Schon’s statements on the term and levels or stages of reflective practice as understood by M. Van Mannen and by P. King and K. Kitchener. Discusses a teacher’s reflective practices.
Who Says So? Ownership, Authorship, and Privacy in Process Writing Classrooms
Authors: Schweiker-Marra Karyn E. , Broglie Mary , Plumer Elizabeth
Published: March 2024

Presents three articles that examine, through the classroom experiences of the authors, important issues of ownership, authorship, and privacy in process writing classrooms: (1) “Use of Students” Writing as Models in the Classroom “(Karyn E. Schweiker-Marra); (2) Privacy Issues Regarding Workshops” (Mary Broglie); and (3) “Problems of Privacy and Ownership in District-wide Writing Programs” (Elizabeth Plumer).
Unsettling Drafts: Helping Students See New Possibilities in Their Writing
Authors: Tchudi Susan , Estrem Heidi , Hanlon Patti-Anne
Published: March 2024

Susan Tchudi, Heidi Estrem, and Patti-Anne Hanlon describe a variety of methods for revision through the examples of students working to revise their papers.
RainbowTeachers/Rainbow Students: The Tesoros Literacy Project: Treasuring Students’ Lives
Authors: DeStigter Todd
Published: March 2024

Describes a project in a southeast Michigan high school in which Latino English-as-a-Second-Language students worked collaboratively for 10 weeks with at-risk working-class Anglo counterparts from an 11th-grade American literature class. Describes reading and writing activities that centered around the notion that students should search for and value the treasures of their own experience.
Making More Sense of America and the World through Interdisciplinary English
Authors: Tarpey Maureen E. , Bucholc Karen
Published: March 2024

Describes two interdisciplinary high school courses team taught by English and social studies teachers: American Studies and World Studies. Discusses format and structure of the courses; presents a basic outline of each course; includes a description of a typical day in the courses; and offers examples of student projects. Offers hints and recommendations for teaching such courses.
Young Adult Literature: 1996 Honor List: An Exploration of Heroic Quests
Authors: Nilsen Alleen Pace , Donelson Kenneth L.
Published: March 2024

Presents the 1996 Honor List of eight books of interests to young adults published in 1996 that were chosen as “est books” by three or more other sources. Discusses the books.
From the Editor
Authors: Monseau Virginia R.
Published: March 2024

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Resources and Reviews: Hard Truths and Cold Realities: The Joys of Teaching in the Inner City
Authors: Hollie Sharroky
Published: March 2024

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Video Production in the English Language Arts Classroom
Authors: Lund Donna Joan
Published: March 2024

Argues that teaching video production techniques in high-school English classes achieves the goals of language arts proficiency, media literacy, and student self-realization. Discusses preproduction; information search; script and storyboard; writing activities; oral communication activities; teamwork; aesthetic judgment; media literacy; affective goals; and vocational opportunities. Describes teaching production techniques to at-risk urban high school students.
From Tripod to Cosmos: A New Metaphor for the Language Arts
Authors: Baines Lawrence A.
Published: March 2024

Argues that the contemporary language arts curriculum encompasses eight areas: literature, language, composition, speech and drama, critical thinking, technology, media literacy, and interdisciplinary studies. Offers a rationale for “cosmos” as a new metaphor for the language arts. Discusses the content of each of the eight curricular areas, and provides a glimpse at some relevant texts and research.
Censoring Girls’ Choices: Continued Gender Bias in English Language Arts Classrooms
Authors: Benjamin Beth , DeVitis Linda Irwin
Published: March 2024

Questions the nexus of girls development, gendered practices in classrooms, and the nature of the English curriculum. Surveys participants in a summer literature discussion group and nearly 1,000 young adolescents. Discusses devaluing girls intelligence; privileging male characteristics; understanding girls silence; observing realities, opting for silence; making a difference in the world; and what teachers can do.
Beyond Voices of Readers: A Dialogue Between Teachers
Authors: Clutter Timothy J. , Cope Jim
Published: March 2024

Timothy J. Clutter critiques Jim Cope’s “Beyond Voices of Readers” from the March 1997 issue of English Journal and Jim Cope responds.
Foregrounding the Background
Authors: Robbins Bruce
Published: March 2024

Argues that when introductory activities to the classics begin with background information, it can upstage or confine the life of the story, and shows little faith in the students as readers or in the literature itself. Suggests sometimes letting the literature begin, and then helping students make sense of it. Discusses examples from “To Kill a Mockingbird” and Shakespeare.
An English Class with Emily
Authors: Bassett Lawrence F.
Published: March 2024

Presents a high school student’s description in class of her deep connection to Hester Prynne in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “The Scarlet Letter,” and how it offers a glimpse of the vast interior lives of women.
When the Mockingbird Becomes an Albatross: Reading and Resistance in the Language Arts Classroom
Authors: Ricker-Wilson Carol
Published: March 2024

Describes the discomfort experienced by students and teacher as they explored how blackness is portrayed and understood in “To Kill a Mockingbird.” Grapples with fundamental pedagogical questions: how to talk about race with a diverse group of students and how to examine victimization and oppression. Suggests tandem teaching with M. Taylor’s "Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry.”
Coming To Terms: Attitude
Authors: Musgrove Laurence E.
Published: March 2024

Examines the origin of the term “attitude,” and how its meaning has changed over the centuries. Discusses theoretical definitions of the term by I. A. Richards and by Kenneth Burke. Discusses its role in the learning process, and how an explicit attention to attitude in the language-arts classroom might help students become better readers and writers.
Bedside Table: “Please, Make a Body Count!”
Authors: Bickel Dave
Published: March 2024

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This World of English
Authors: Heller Daniel A.
Published: March 2024

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Poetry: Second Place: Dreaming in Himeji, 1945
Authors: Hohlbein-Koechley Lori
Published: March 2024

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To Follow Your Heart: Coming Out through Literacy
Authors: Kinder Deborah Jean
Published: March 2024

Describes the experience of a high school English teacher as she respectfully “witnessed” one student’s anguished questioning, search, and finding her (the student’s) sexual orientation. Relates how the teacher was a supportive listener and offered the student literacy as a means of finding and creating herself.
Experience and Acceptance of Postcolonial Literature in the High School English Class
Authors: Goldblatt Patricia F.
Published: March 2024

Describes how a high school English teacher in Toronto took a class for gifted students called “Third World Literature” and reshaped it into a class on “Postcolonial Literature.” Discusses students’ initial resistance; describes the activities and projects by which students engaged with this literature; and notes their eventual enthusiasm for learning about others and finding themselves through this literature.
Quiet Times: Ninth Graders Teach Poetry Writing in Nursing Homes
Authors: Dickson Randi
Published: March 2024

Describes a community project (based on Kenneth Koch’s book “I Never Told Anybody”) in which students in a ninth-grade English class paired up with nursing home residents, making regular visits to encourage them to write poetry. Discusses finding a place, getting ready, working together, and what students learned about writing poetry and about life and aging.
Young Adult Literature: Rescuing Reluctant Readers
Authors: Crowe Chris
Published: March 2024

Discusses the attitudes and issues of reluctant readers by describing the author’s son Jonathan, an intelligent young man who came to hate reading. Offers advice for teachers from Jonathan regarding how they can help students enjoy reading more. Presents annotations of 11 new or overlooked young adult books worth reading.
Teaching English across the Technology/Wealth Gap
Authors: Moran Charles , Selfe Cynthia L.
Published: March 2024

Points out that bringing technology into the schools illuminates, and perhaps exacerbates, the advantage that students from wealthy families have over students from poorer families. Notes that advocates for technology often have an agenda that has nothing to do with students’ learning. Discusses what educators can do in the face of all this. Subscribe to this journal.
Students as Ethnographers: Guiding Alternative Research Projects
Authors: Beach Richard , Finders Margaret J.
Published: March 2024

Describes having students conduct micro-ethnographic research projects, in which students study how participants construct the meanings of social practices in the worlds of school, home, peer group, or various virtual worlds. Discusses research procedures, adopting a cultural perspective, selecting research topics, becoming a participant observer, collecting artifacts and writing field notes, analyzing data, writing research reports, and criteria for evaluation.
Young Adult Literature: Dear Teachers: Please Help My Kids Become Readers
Authors: Crowe Chris
Published: March 2024

Presents an open letter to English teachers outlining what the author hopes English teachers will teach his children about books and reading this year, focused on helping them love reading. Includes some thoughts about how to do so. Presents short annotations of 11 new or overlooked young adult books worth reading.
The Africanization of an American Classroom in Hong Kong: The Power of Literature
Authors: Ewing Kent
Published: March 2024

Describes a unit of study called “A World Cultures Unit: Africa in a Nutshell,” developed for ninth graders at the Hong Kong International School. Claims good literature has the power to make students more perceptive readers, more expressive writers, and more thoughtful speakers. Suggests teachers take literature across the curriculum to make school experiences more enjoyable and meaningful.
Our Ithacas: A Ninth Grade Reflection
Authors: Juzwik Mary M.
Published: March 2024

Describes a unit wherein students reading “The Odyssey” produced visual representations of important story elements, considered differences in Homer’s use of language and their own, enacted scenes from “The Odyssey,” and wrote goal-setting and interpretive essays.
Making American Literatures: An Overview
Authors: Gere Anne Ruggles
Published: March 2024

Discusses a summer institute that examined the shifting shape of American Literature, and teaching American Literature. Includes ways in which students help “make” literature with their own writing. Discusses the contributions of new technologies, pairing unlikely combinations of texts, and including middle school teachers who teach individual texts, if not a whole course on American Literature.
Speaking My Mind: Why Literature Matters
Authors: Smith Donald G.
Published: March 2024

Presents 10 specific reasons in response to a student’s question “Why should we read literature?” Answers the question from 10 angles: escape, empathy, mirror, time machine, cultural heritage, language, art, “lifesaver,” “reading of life,” and fear of change.
Prescriptions for Curing English Teacher Split Personality Disorder
Authors: Fischer Elizabeth A.
Published: March 2024

Fischer asserts that “viewing reading literature and writing texts as completely different acts is a mistake.” Like writing, she says, reading is “an act of construction and expression.”
Spinning Plates: A “Novel” Experience
Authors: Schreck Mary Kim
Published: March 2024

Describes a high school language arts elective course on the novel, based on copious reading both in and out of class, a mix of assigned books and personal choice books in a broad range of difficulty in sophistication, and a wide range of activities, discussions, and writing. Notes enthusiastic responses, individual victories, and the sense of adventure shared by all.
Creating Connections: Challenging the Text and Student Writers
Authors: Bowman Cynthia
Published: March 2024

Discusses why and how the author uses writing-to-learn techniques in the study of literature to promote enjoyment, understanding, and imagination. Describes using learning logs (reader-response journals), varying aesthetic responses to link reading and writing, and incorporating technology.
The Value of Voice: Promoting Peace through Teaching and Writing
Authors: Ruggieri Colleen A.
Published: March 2024

Describes how and why a high school English teacher changed her classroom to allot more time for creative writing, to teach a research paper from a personal perspective, and to extend student appreciation of voice and conflict beyond the literature studied in class. Describes how this fostered opportunities for individual growth and transformed her classroom.
Reflecting on Character through Literary Themes
Authors: Smagorinsky Peter
Published: March 2024

Discusses the merits of implementing a character education curriculum through teaching literature according to themes. Argues that a reflective approach, emphasizing students’ engagement with the issues and the resolutions they come up with for considering moral dilemmas, will be more effective than a didactic approach. Describes a unit on success, part of an American literature class for high school juniors.
Learning a Language of Nonviolence
Authors: Bridgers Sue Ellen
Published: March 2024

Describes the author’s experience writing a novel which she believed was a love story, but came to realize was a story about domestic violence. Argues for a strong role for young adult literature in examining the realities of abusive, confining relationships. Notes that young people have been helped in dealing with their own dilemmas by seeing themselves in such stories.
A Thousand Cranes: A Curriculum of Peace
Authors: Rees Linda W.
Published: March 2024

Relates the author’s experiences as a teacher with a high school student, a soft-spoken Japanese young woman, who taught the author and her fellow high school students much about understanding, forgiveness, and peace.
“Who You Dissin’, Dude?”: At-Risk Students Learn Assertive Communication Skills
Authors: Cangelosi Barbara R.
Published: March 2024

Cangelosi describes her students in the alternative high school where she teaches and how she teaches them assertive communication as a replacement for aggressive behavior.
Motivating Middle School Students to Revise and Edit
Authors: Conner Angela M. , Moulton Margaret R.
Published: March 2024

Describes how the author used research booklets to be read by sixth graders, poetry books, and taking part in a city-wide writing competition with her eighth-grade students to combat a general apathy in many students’ writing efforts. Suggests the projects spoke to individual interests, helped students find a purpose to write, and improved the quality of student work.
Interior Design: Revision as Focus
Authors: Smede Shelly D.
Published: March 2024

Smede gives solid sentence level revision strategies complete with a detailed revision checklist.
One More Tool for the Toolbox
Authors: Bjorklund Ann L.
Published: March 2024

Discusses 10 obstacles a teacher might encounter when incorporating technology into the classroom. Argues that with technology, like any other teaching strategy, teachers just need a few strategies that work for them, which they vary and adapt as needed. Lists some small, medium, and large projects using technology in the English classroom that students enjoy. Offers some parting advice.
Hypertext and the Changing Roles of Readers
Authors: Patterson Nancy G.
Published: March 2024

Patterson explains why and how we should teach students to learn the different strategies necessary for reading hypertext.
“Why Do They Get It on Friday and Misspell It on Monday?” Teachers Inquiring About Their Students as Spellers
Authors: Gill Charlene Hillal , Scharer Patricia L.
Published: March 2024

Spelling remains a big question mark for many teachers. In this study a group of teachers examined their children’s spelling patterns and errors and made changes in their instructional strategies based on what they saw.
Lost in Language and Language Lost: Considering Native Language in Classrooms
Authors: Smolkin Laura B. , Suina Joseph H.
Published: March 2024

Perhaps more than any other in the U.S. today; the languages of American Indian communities find little place in the school classroom. This article discusses the issues and challenges of supporting and extending the oral and written language development of native languages.
Talking Their Walk: Interviewing Fifth Graders about Their Literacy Journeys
Authors: Galley Sharon Martens
Published: March 2024

The words of students prove to be a powerful force in helping teachers move toward a new view of language arts assessment and curriculum.
Reconceptualizing “Resistant” Learners and Rethinking Instruction: Risking a Trip to the Swamp
Authors: Hauschildt Patricia M. , McMahon Susan I.
Published: March 2024

The authors suggest ways to rethink instruction in book club discussions so that students who seem to be resistant actually engage themselves with the books they are reading.
Learning
Authors: Johnson Karin
Published: March 2024

Poetry by Karin Johnson.
Pleasure?
Authors: Reinhard Rick , Gembrell Linda
Published: March 2024

In this photo essay, the authors ask you to consider pleasure, its contexts, its relationship to camaraderie, its interiorization and exteriorization.
1998 Outstanding Educator in the Language Arts
Authors: Glazer Joan
Published: March 2024

Presents a conversation with eminent educator Dorothy Strickland, 1998 Outstanding Educator in the Language Arts. Discusses her books, being a “career mom,” her role in writing the report “Becoming a Nation of Readers,” the cycles that reading education seems to go through, professional development, “Reading Recovery,” standards, and letting the public know what education is about.
One Afternoon in an Elysian Field: Socrates’ Academy Adresses Spelling
Authors: Cambourne Brian
Published: March 2024

Offers a fanciful dialog between Socrates and his followers to present findings about spelling development. Discusses the work of two scholars (Frank Smith and Steven Krashen); then discusses various hypotheses. Concludes that effective spellers get to be that way because they read as if they were writers; and a strong relationship exists between reading, writing, and spelling.
Non-Narrative as a Catalyst for Literacy Development
Authors: Caswell Linda J. , Duke Nell K.
Published: March 2024

Presents case studies of two struggling reader/writers who found a "way in" to the world of literacy through nonnarrative texts. Argues for greater attention to nonnarrative in early literacy education.
Finding “Real” Lives: Writing and Identity
Authors: Laidlaw Linda
Published: March 2024

Puzzles over questions about writing and identity revealed in the author’s kindergarten classroom. Focuses on the story of a child struggling to find her own way and her own place to examine the notion that writing, understood as a philosophical and artistic practice, might make a more explicit contribution to the process of “identity-making.”
Exploring Culture through Children’s Connections
Authors: Kaser Sandy , Short Kathy G.
Published: March 2024

Shares one teacher’s attempts to highlight diversity and children’s cultures in authentic ways. Examines three children’s connections to culture and their own cultural identities by looking at issues they explored across the school year (family, family and religion, and ethnicity). Situates the discussion of multiculturalism in the context of “kid culture.”
Summers Off: Representations of Teachers’ Work and Other Discontents
Authors: Shannon Patrick , Crawford Particia
Published: March 2024

Explores popular, historical, progressive, and economic representations of teachers’ work to consider opportunities and dangers these images offer. Discusses the power to represent teaching, and speculates on the intentions of those who wield that power. Suggests ways teachers might make their work visible to the public in order to represent themselves.
Literacy in Other Spaces
Authors: Dressman Mark
Published: March 2024

Explains why implementing integrated curricula is probably a lost cause in the long term. Argues that there are hidden possibilities in a fragmented school curriculum that, ironically, may provide teachers with more opportunities to respond to both their own and students’ needs. Presents evidence from a comparative study of three school libraries.
Constant Connections through Literature-Using Art, Music, and Drama
Authors: Gilles Carol , Andre Marilyn , Dye Carolyn , Pfannenstiel Virginia
Published: March 2024

Presents thoughts of teachers (many from Lee Expressive Arts Elementary School in Columbia, Missouri) on why they engage in the expressive arts and literature. Offers specific examples of how teachers explore life and literature through drama, music, and art with 22 children’s books.
Conversations in the Classroom: Poetic Voices at Play
Authors: Grainger Teresa
Published: March 2024

Illustrates how children’s "poetic voices in action" provide context for the writing of poetry. Describes how the author taped hours of classroom interaction and the talk that surrounded the children’s writing, browsing, reading and performance of poetry. Shares examples of reflective voices at play. Examines ways in which teachers can celebrate and enhance children’s poetic potential.
Social Influences on the Writing of Marion Dane Bauer and Katherine Paterson
Authors: Fisher Bonnie E.
Published: March 2024

Profiles two children’s authors, Marion Dane Bauer and Katherine Paterson, examining the social interactions that have influenced their writing. Looks at the social context of their lives as influences on their writing, including family, friends and acquaintances, literature, research for a novel, editors, the marketplace, and readers. Suggests seven ideas for writing teachers to consider and explore.
Unearthing the Unspeakable: When Teacher Research and Political Agendas Collide
Authors: Herr Kathryn
Published: March 2024

Herr recounts the complications that arose when her teacher research began to focus on issues of institutional racism within the school where she worked.
The Power of the Conference Is the Power of Suggestion
Authors: Mclver Monette Coleman , Wolf Shelby Anne
Published: March 2024

Examines writing conferences (between teacher and student, and between two students) in one fourth-grade classroom to see how the students engaged in sophisticated talk about writing, as they consistently assumed the roles of critical but curious readers capable of telling their peers when they were confused about a piece of writing or how they might make it more engaging.
1999 Notable Children’s Books in the Language Arts
Authors:   Notable Children’s Books Committee
Published: March 2024

Presents brief descriptions of 1999’s list of Notable Children’s Books in the Language Arts: 30 children’s trade books published in 1998 chosen for their outstanding potential to enhance language awareness among students in grades K-8.