bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Comparison of the Effect of Kombucha and Vitamin C on Coronary Arteries in Rabbits Exposed to Lead and High-cholesterol Diet
Authors: Rajabzadeh Asghar , Vahedi Parviz , Vahedi Hadi
Published: March 2024

Background: Vitamin C and kombucha contain a high amount of glucuronic acid that can prevent cholesterol accumulation and convert cholesterol to a more water-soluble compound. Objectives: The aim of this study was to compare the effects of kombucha and vitamin C on the coronary arteries and aorta of male rabbits exposed to lead acetate fed with a high-cholesterol diet. Methods: Forty male rabbits were divided randomly into four groups of 10 animals. Group 1 served as a control group. Rabbits in group 2 received water containing 547 ppm of lead acetate and a high-cholesterol diet (1%). Group 3 received water containing 547 ppm lead acetate and a high-cholesterol diet (1%) in combination with ascorbic acid (500 mg/kg), and group 4 rabbits were treated with water containing 547 ppm lead acetate and kombucha extract (10 ml/kg) for 40 days orally on a high-cholesterol diet (1%). Results: The results showed that in groups 3 and 4, no significant atherosclerotic plaques could be detected in coronary arteries, compared to the control animals. However, large atherosclerotic plaques were observed in the aortas of those treated only with kombucha. The data were analyzed using analysis of variance (ANOVA) statistical methods. The mean ± standard error of the mean (SEM) triglyceride (TG) serum levels in groups 1, 2, 3, and 4 were 122.70 ± 66.77, 280.60 ± 88.66, 120.10 ± 8.33, and 107.86 ± 8.61 mg/dL, respectively. The mean ± SEM TG serum levels in groups 1, 2, 3, and 4 were 67.80 ± 10.33, 67.90 ± 10.10, 60.80 ± 8.16, and 58.71 ± 4.78 mg/dL, respectively. The mean ± SEM TG serum levels in groups 1, 2, 3, and 4 were 194.50 ± 6.58, 182.60 ± 13.75, 178.30 ± 18.01, and 166.00 ± 7.65 mg/dL, respectively. P-values for low-density lipoprotein (LDL), high-density lipoprotein (HDL), and TG were reported as P < 0.001, P = 0.077, and P < 0.001, respectively. Conclusions: It could be concluded that kombucha, unlike vitamin C, cannot prevent the formation of large plaques in the aorta, although it seems that it can prevent atherosclerotic lesions in coronary arteries. Therefore, further studies are required to evaluate the long-term use of kombucha to assess whether higher doses are beneficial in preventing atherosclerotic events or not.
Pengembangan Media Audio Visual untuk Meningkatkan Kemampuan Bahasa Arab di Kelompok B1 PPAUD IT Lukmanul Hakim
Authors: Pratiwi Wiwik , Talango Sitti Rahmawati , Angio Nurlaila
Published: March 2024

Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui bagaimana meningkatkan kemampuan keaksaraan bahasa arab melalui media audiovisual di kelompok B1 PPAUD IT Lukmanul Hakim. Penggunaan media audiovisual dibantu dengan penggunaan media video sebagai alat yang mendukung media audiovisual. Model penelitian yang digunakan adalah model penelitian tindakan kelas oleh Kemmis Mc Tagart. Subjek penelitian yakni anak usia 5-6 tahun kelompok B1 di PPAUD IT Lukmanul Hakim yang berjumlah 23 siswa. Berdasarkan hasil penelitian Pengenalan keaksaraan bahasa arab dengan menggunakan media audiovisual didapatkan hasil penelitian presentase dari praobservasi yaitu 46.79%, kemudian peningkatan pada siklus I dengan presentase 85.62% dan sangat meningkat pada siklus II dengan presnetase 94.07% dan maka dapat disimpulkan bahwa terdapat peningkatan keaksaraan bahasa arab dengan menggunakan media audiovisual.
Mengenalkan Makanan Bergizi pada Anak Usia Dini melalui Media Pembelajaran Audio Visual
Authors: Lasulika Anita , Munirah  , Indriani
Published: March 2024

Penelitian ini bertujuan menjelaskan penggunaan media audio visual dapat meningkatkan pemahaman tentang makanan bergizi pada anak usia dini di TK Dahlia Desa Pinogu Kecamatan Pinogu Kabupaten Bone Bolango Provinsi Gorontalo,. Jumlah subjek penelitian ialah 25 orang anak yang terdiri dari 11 orang anak laki-laki dan 14 orang anak perempuan. Indikator yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini yaitu mengenal jenis-jenis makanan bergizi, mengelompokkan jenis-jenis makanan bergizi, serta mengetahui manfaat dari makanan bergizi. Prosedur penelitian terdiri dari persiapan, pelaksanaan, observasi, evaluasi, dan analisis dan refleksi. Pelaksanaan penelitian ini terdiri dari dua siklus. Setiap siklus dilaksanakan dua kali tindakan. Hasil observasi pra siklus mencapai ketuntasan 30%, siklus I tingkat ketuntasan belajar sebesar 44%, dan pada siklus II terjadi peningkatan yakni sebesar 82%. Maka dapat disimpulkan bahwa media pembelajaran audio visual dapat meningkatakan pemahaman anak tentang makanan bergizi, serta dapat meningkatkan semangat anak dalam proses pembelajaran di kelompok B di Taman Kanak-Kanak Dahlia
IMPLEMENTASI KURIKULUM MERDEKA BELAJAR DI SD ISLAM TERPADU AZ-ZAHRA KOTA GORONTALO
Authors: Inal Rinaldi Datunsolang, M.Pd , Bakari Aljunaid
Published: March 2024

ABSTRAK

Tujuan dalam penelitian ini yaitu untuk mengetahui bagaimana implementasi kurikulum merdeka belajar di SDIT AzZahra. Aspek kesiapan tenaga pendidik dan aspek peserta didik dalam implementasi kurikulum merdeka belajar, dengan aspek kesiapan tenaga pendidik yaitu: kompetensi, inovasi, kreativitas, dan etos kerja. Kemudian aspek peserta didik yaitu: partisipasi siswa, pembelajaran efektif, dan ketertinggalan anak didik. penelitian ini menggunakan penelitian kualitatif dengan menggunakan pendekatan studi lapangan. Data diperoleh dari hasil observasi peserta didik dan hasil wawancara sejumlah informan yaitu kepala sekolah, wakasek kurikulum, dan guru di SDIT Az-Zahra yang mengimplementasikan kurikulum merdeka belajar.

Hasil penelitian ini menunjukkan bahwa implementasi kurikulum merdeka belajar yang sudah berjalan dengan baik walaupun kurikulum tersebut masih baru namun pihak sekolah dan juga tenaga pendidik selalu berupaya dalam mengimplementasikan kurikulum merdeka belajar. Kunci suksesnya kurikulum tersebut yaitu guru dan siswa meningkatkan mindset ingin melakukan terobosan baru agar hasil yang dicapai dapat maksimal. Semenjak pengimplementasikan kurikulum merdeka belajar pada dua tahun terakhir di SDIT Az-Zahra guru selalu berupaya demi tercapainya tujuan pendidikan secara efektif, membuat strategi dan didukung dengan penerapan kompetensi pada guru. Serta observasi kepada siswa yang peneliti lakukan pada aspek peserta didik melalui partisipasi siswa, dan pembelajaran efektif sudah maksimal dengan tidak ada ketertinggalan peserta didik. Ini merupakan upaya para guru yang ada di SDIT Az-Zahra yang selalu berupaya dalam keberhasilan para peserta didik dan juga tujuan tercapainya pembelajaran pada Implementasi Kurikulum Merdeka Belajar di SDIT Az-Zahra Kota Gorontalo.
Peningkatan Kemampuan Pemahaman Peserta Didik Dalam Meningkatkan Kemampuan Tahsin Dalam Metode Ummi Peserta Didik Kelas VIII MTS Ddi Tarakan
Authors: Adil Adil
Published: March 2024

Penelitian ini merupakan upaya untuk mempermudah meningkatkan kemampuan membaca Al-Qur’an dalam pembelajaran tahsin pada siswa kelas VIII-B di MTs DDI Tarakan, Kab. Kota tarakan.  Pertanyaan pertama yang akan dijawab melalui penelitian ini adalah Apakah penerapan Metode Ummi dapat meningkatkan kemampuan Tahsin dalam membaca QS.al-Fatihah pada peserta didik kelas VIII? dan pertanyaan yang kedua apa faktor pendukung dalam penerapan metode Ummi dalam pembelajaran tahsin siswa kelas VIII-B? Untuk menjawab pertanyaan tersebut, maka peneliti menggunakan penelitian tindakan kelas (PTK) sebanyak 3 siklus. Tujuan peneitian ini adalah untuk mengetahui kemampuan membaca Al-Qur’an siswa kelas VIII-B MTs DDI Tarakan serta untuk faktor pendukung dalam penerapan metode Ummi dalam pembelajaran tahsin. Dari analisis data didapatkan bahwa kemampuan membaca Al-Qur’an pada siswa kelas VIII-B Tarakan mengalami peningkatan dalam setiap siklusnya, yaitu kondisi awal kemampuan siswa rata-rata belum memahami sepenuhnya tentang bacaan tajwid dan makharijul huruf, rata-rata kemampuan siswa 58,18. Pada siklus I dapat ditingkatkan rata-rata kemampuan siswa menjadi 65,85; pada Siklus II rata-rata kemampuan siswa 71,97; dan di Siklus III rata-rata kemampuan siswa 80,94. Penerapan metode Ummi mempunyai pengaruh yang baik dalam pembelajaran Tahsin, hal ini dapat dibuktikan bahwa metode Ummi dapat meningkatkan kemampuan membaca al-Fatihah siswa kelas VIII-B di MTs DDI Tarakan, karena dapat menuntasan persentase ketuntasan siswa pada siklus I sebanyak 27,27%, pada siklus II sebanyak 45,45% dan pada siklus III sebanyak 81,82%
Digitalization of the economy: main directions and advantages
Authors:   Azerbaijan University of Architecture and Construction, Alekperova L.A , Aliyev B.A ,   Azerbaijan University of Architecture and Construction
Published: March 2024

As technological innovation develops, the digital economy has become one of the most important sectors of the national economy. In the era of globalization, digitization of production, finance and education has become a prerequisite for countries to actively participate in more efficient global value chains. Digitization is a process of our modern era that is developing at a dynamic speed and has an impact on national economies and societies in one way or another. Today, it can be said with certainty that information and communication technologies have entered a new stage of development and have the power to transform all areas of our lives. The article evaluates the impact of IT on economic growth and examines the level of development of digital technologies in Azerbaijan.
This article is prepared to provide information on the application of Industry 4.0 technologies in e-commerce and the results obtained for the sector. It analyzes how Industry 4.0 is shaping the future of e-commerce and explores the expected trends in this field. The article discusses forecasts regarding hyper-personalized experiences, digitalized supply chains, and further advancements in existing security technologies.
Authors:   Azerbaijan State Economic University, Ismayilova G.I , Amikishiyev E.K. ,   Azerbaijan State Economic University
Published: March 2024

This article is prepared to provide information on the application of Industry 4 0 technologies in e commerce and the results obtained for the sector. It analyzes how Industry 4.0 is shaping the future of e commerce and explores the expected trends in this field. The article discusses forecasts regarding hyper personalized experiences, digitalized supply chains, and further advancements in existing security technologies.
Costs in management accounting and the role of cost accounting improvement in corporate decision making
Authors:   Kazakh branch of Baku State University, Mammadova S.Q
Published: March 2024

In the modern world, the process of managing an organization is becoming more and more complicated every year. This is due to the development of market relations, a significant increase in competition and a large flow of information that must be effectively processed for management decision making. A great responsibility falls on the head of the enterprise. The article studies cost accounting methods, it is shown that information about production costs is summarized in the management system, the grouping of costs by types is considered the basis for accounting by their places of formation and cost carriers. The classification of expenses is determined by the object of expenses. It can be concluded that one of the main issues of management accounting is the coordination of the activities of separate departments of the company, they should understand the strategic importance of studying consumer demand, prioritize quality, think about the interests of society, and achieve reconciliation of these factors in order to obtain more profit. Thus, the importance of improving cost accounting methods is more prominent. It can be concluded that one of the main issues of management accounting is the coordination of the activities of individual departments of the company, they need to understand the strategic importance of studying consumer demand, prioritize quality, think about the interests of society, and these factors are more they must achieve reconciliation in order to gain more profit. Thus, the importance of improving cost accounting methods is more evident. In the end, it is suggested that it is necessary to have a more strict control over the accounting of the actual costs spent on product production and to reveal the resources for reducing the cost of the product work, service. In the conditions of the current market relations, it is not enough to make traditional decisions in the management of the company, it is necessary to be flexible, to have timely information and to use this information correctly in the company's activities. Plans to run a company should be designed targeting the market. The integration of information and communication technologies, various methods of cost calculation in our country will make it possible to create a more efficient system of corporate management.
Relationship between HR-strategies and business strategies in construction companies under different competitive environments
Authors:   Azerbaijan University of   Architecture and Construction, Mammadova K.M. , Gurbanov K.M. ,   Azerbaijan University of Architecture and Construction
Published: March 2024

The construction sector, in addition to contributing to the sustainable development of developing countries with its direct employment potential and the production it provides, occupies an important place in the economy of developed countries in particular. In addition, the importance of strategic planning of construction activities has long been emphasized in both developed and developing countries. However, it is known that the prevailing characteristics of the construction industry are low profitability and high competition. Strategy development is, in the most basic terms, an organizational decision-making process. Companies need an appropriate strategic management process to develop clear strategies. The strategic management process is defined as the decision makers who determine the companys goals and make choices to achieve those goals, taking into account the companys mission and available resources. There are various alternatives that companies can implement in this process. One of these alternatives is the diversification strategy. A diversification strategy is a firms expansion into new markets, sectors, and/or industries in response to the competition it typically faces in its business environment.
Corporations as Imperfect Communities
Authors: López Latorre Andrés Felipe , Thoene Ulf ,   Philosophy Documentation Center
Published: March 2024

This article presents an alternative understanding of corporations from the two problematic visions that see corporations as either the shareholders’ property or as nexuses of contracts. The alternative proposed here is based on the theories of pre-eighteenth-century philosophers, particularly Aristotle’s political philosophy, which Thomas Aquinas later refined. The article aims to advance a theory of corporate legal and moral responsibility for human rights based on the conception of corporations as imperfect communities whose purpose is to produce a good or service through participatory work that allows individuals to self-develop while contributing to the community by satisfying consumers’ needs through collaborative work. The critical account of corporations presented here provides a sound foundation upon which to build a justification of corporate responsibility for human rights violations, providing a more accurate description of the reality of a corporation than most mainstream contemporary accounts do.
Pengaruh Modul Argument Driven Inqiry terhadap Kesadaran Lingkungan Mahasiswa
Authors: Eka Imbia Agus Diartika
Published: March 2024

This research aims to test biology students' environmental awareness using three different learning materials, one of which is a module with argument-based inquiry. This module is applied in the learning process using quasi-experimental research with a non-randomized pretest-posttest control group design. This research was conducted in 3 classes of Biology Education undergraduate students, State University of Malang, who took the Basic Environmental Science course during April-May 2020. Learning was carried out online over 3 meetings, with learning activity 1 about the concept of waste, learning activity 2 about the impact of pollution waste, and learning activity 3 about solving environmental problems caused by waste. The experimental class was taught using the ADI module, the positive control class was taught using the ADI model, and the negative control class was taught using PowerPoint. Students' pretest-posttest environmental awareness scores were analyzed using Ancova. The results of the Ancova environmental awareness test for biology students show that the significance is 0.930, so there is no difference in environmental awareness between students who use the ADI module, ADI model, and PowerPoint.
Modelamiento Matemático de la Fiebre Amarilla: un modelo con migración
Authors:   Instituto de Física e Matemática, Universidade Federal de Pelotas, Pelotas, Brasil, Pitol Lisandra , Rossato Piovesan Luciana ,   Centro de Engenharias, Universidade Federal de Pelotas, Pelotas, Brasil, Aguiar Gonçalves Glênio ,   Brasil, Tumelero Fernanda ,   Instituto de Física e Matemática, Universidade Federal de Pelotas, Pelotas, Brasil, Sacco de Athayde Alexandre ,   Instituto de Física e Matemática, Universidade Federal de Pelotas, Pelotas, Brasil, Sperotto de Quadros Régis ,   Instituto de Física e Matemática, Universidade Federal de Pelotas, Pelotas, Brasil, Buske Daniela ,   Instituto de Física e Matemática, Universidade Federal de Pelotas, Pelotas, Brasil
Published: March 2024

En este trabajo nos limitamos al estudio de un modelo matemático para la Fiebre Amarilla (FA), una enfermedad febril aguda transmitida por vectores (en este caso, mosquitos). Este es un modelo compartimental conocido, propuesto por Esteva et al. (2019), que divide a la población en tres ciclos, según la dinámica de transmisión de la enfermedad: ciclo epidémico forestal,ciclo entre humanos en la región forestal y ciclo urbano (epidemia urbana de fiebre amarilla sostenida por humanos migratorios infecciosos). A pesar de tener otros vectores, solo se consideró la presencia de dos vectores principales: el Aedes aegypti (transmisor urbano) y el Haemagogus (principal transmisor en la región forestal). Además, proponemos una modificación al modelo: la inclusión de la vacunación. Así, a través de simulaciones en el software Scilab, fue posible obtener gráficas del comportamiento de cada una de las poblaciones (tanto hospedantes como vectores) en un ambiente con y sin presencia de vacunación, permitiendo un análisis más detallado del impacto de la vacunación en una población humana susceptible.
Stories of Us: Students and Film Director Collaborate
Authors: Aronson Deb
Published: March 2024

Anti-Bullying Film Project Captivates Students — and Gives a Glimpse of 21st Century Literacies in the Classroom
The "C’s of Change"
Authors: Collier Lorna
Published: March 2024

Students -- and Teachers -- Learn 21st Century Skills
Fighting for Scientifically Valid Reading Strategies That Work
Authors: Collier Lorna
Published: March 2024

I definitely see an impact in the classroom when teachers create curriculum based on their knowledge of qualitative reading research, says Susi Long, an early childhood research specialist at the University of South Carolina, I definitely see an impact in the classroom when teachers create curriculum based on their knowledge of qualitative reading research, says Susi Long, an early childhood research specialist at the University of South Carolina, I definitely see an impact in the classroom when teachers create curriculum based on their knowledge of qualitative reading research, says Susi Long, an early childhood research specialist at the University of South Carolina, I definitely see an impact in the classroom when teachers create curriculum based on their knowledge of qualitative reading research, says Susi Long, an early childhood research specialist at the University of South Carolina,
"Being a Writer Depends on Being a Reader"
Authors: Goodson Lori Atkins
Published: March 2024

An Interview with Francine Prose
Writing Outside of School: An NCTE Policy Research Brief
Authors: Squires James R.
Published: March 2024

Research shows that extracurricular or out-of-school writing draws on and adds strength to youngsters’ social, cultural, and linguistic resources.
Get Ready for the National Day on Writing
Authors: Collier Lorna
Published: March 2024

It’s almost October Do you know where your submission for the National Gallery is?
Writing Stories That End in Freedom
Authors: Bauman Amy
Published: March 2024

An interview with author and social activist Lorene Cary
Reader’s Commentary: “It’s all ’bout tryin’ to make ev’ryone sames”
Authors: Vasquez Vivian , Souto-Manning Mariana
Published: March 2024

The new Early Childhood Education Assembly will continue the conversation on young children and learning
Meet the 2008 Recipients of the NCTE Early Career Teacher of Color Award of Distinction
Authors: Prueher Lovelyn Marquez , Robinson Zanetta
Published: March 2024

Comments from the 2008 Recipients of the NCTE Early Career Teacher of Color Award of Distinction, Lovelyn Marquez Prueher and Zanetta Robinson
Picturing Education: A Family Photo Links Past, Present, Future
Authors: Bauman Amy
Published: March 2024

As NCTE’s Centennial approaches, an NCTE member discovers her great-grandfather was a founding member.
Funny in English, Too
Authors: Flanagan Anna
Published: March 2024

An Interview with Firoozeh Dumas, Iranian American author of Funny in Farsi
Nancy Pearl: Ãœber Librarian
Authors: Aronson Deb
Published: March 2024

Nancy Pearl shared her “book lust” with NCTE members as a speaker at the 2009 Annual Convention Secondary Section Get-Together.
Believing You Can Make a Difference: From 1911 to 2011â€”The Needs of Teachers and Students Keep NCTE and Its Members Moving Forward
Authors: Bauman Amy
Published: March 2024

Leila Christenbury, Donna Alvermann, and Anika Spratley expand on some of the ideas in NCTE’s Centennial book, Reading the Past, Writing the Future: A Century of American Literacy Education and the National Council of Teachers of English.
Plagiarism as Literacy Practice: Recognizing and Rethinking Ethical Binaries
Authors: Valentine Kathryn
Published: March 2024

In this article, I assert that plagiarism is a literacy practice that involves social relationships, attitudes, and values as much as it involves rules of citation and students’ texts. In addition, I show how plagiarism is complicated by a discourse about academic dishonesty, and I consider the implications that recognizing such complexity has for teaching.
Recovering the Conversation: Rethinking Nancy Sommers’s Responding to Student
Authors: Rutz Carol
Published: March 2024

This is the second installment in the Re-Visions series’ an occasional series for which I invite essays that reconsider important work previously published in the pages of CCC. The full text of Nancy Sommers’s “Responding to Student Writing” (CCC, May 1982, 148–56) is available at www.inventio.us/ccc.
Rejecting the Remedial Brand: The Rise and Fall of the Dartmouth Writing Clinic
Authors: Lerner Neal
Published: March 2024

“Branding” a university in an effort to attract student applicants and alumni dollars is increasingly commonplace. The history of the Dartmouth Writing Clinic attests to the ways student writers represent an institution’s brand and provides a troubling picture of a world in which under-prepared students are branded out of existence.
In Memoriam: William F. Irmscher
Authors: Webster John
Published: March 2024

William Irmscher, past president of NCTE (1983) and past chair of CCCC (1979), passed away just before Christamas.
Further Contributions from the Ethical Turn in Composition/Rhetoric: Analyzing Ethics in Interaction
Authors: Barton Ellen
Published: March 2024

In this essay, I propose that the field of composition/rhetoric can make important contributions to the understanding of ethics based on our critical perspective on language as interactional and rhetorical. The actual language of decision making with ethical dimensions has rarely been studied directly in the literature, a crucial gap our field can usefully fill.
Review Essay: Place, Desire, Existence: Trinity University Press’s Writers World Series
Authors: Newman Amy
Published: March 2024

Reviewed: Mexican Writers on Writing Margaret Sayers Peden, editor Irish Writers on Writing Eavan Boland, editor Polish Writers on Writing Adam Zagajewski, editor
Review Essay: Local Histories, Broader Implications
Authors: Rectenwald Michael D.
Published: March 2024

Reviewed: Local Histories: Reading the Archives of Composition Patricia Donahue and Gretchen Flesher Moon, editors
From the Editor: The Promise of Redundancy
Authors: Deborah H. Holdstein
Published: March 2024

Editor Holdstein introduces the June issue.
Chaos Is the Poetry: From Outcomes to Inquiry in Service-Learning Pedagogy
Authors: Stenberg Shari J. , Whealy Darby Arant
Published: March 2024

This article argues for approaching pedagogical outcomes as ends-in-view that guide, but do not determine or limit, pedagogical possibilities. Reflecting on moments from a service-learning literacy course, the writers argue that experiences of chaos in the classroom, while often uncomfortable, can open opportunities for reflection and inquiry.
“Mutt Genres” and the Goal of FYC: Can We Help Students Write the Genres of the University?
Authors: Wardle Elizabeth
Published: March 2024

The goal of teaching students to write for the university assumes that in first-year composition students can be taught ways of writing (genre and genre knowledge) that they can then transfer to the writing they do in other courses across the university. This goal and its underlying assumption are problematic for a number of reasons illustrated here through a study of a large midwestern composition program. The study validates theoretical critiques of general skills writing courses made by genre and activity theorists over the past decade. The difficulties of teaching varied academic genres in only one context suggest we might better serve first-year students by reframing the goals of FYC, such that the course does not promise to teach students to write in the university but rather teaches students about writing in the university.
Perspectives: Writing in the Post–“Man-of-Letters” Modern World
Authors: Sirc Geoffrey
Published: March 2024

Sirc’s essay also uses the writing course as touchstone “this time, to wrestle initially” with the issues Allen Tate pondered in his 1952 essay . . . “The Man of Letters in the Modern World.” Sirc challenges contemporary instructors of writing, claiming that “the vox pop criticism of iTunes writing represents a new Attic style, one well worth studying and teaching to.”
From the Editor: The Authority of the Hybrid Word
Authors: Holdstein Deborah H.
Published: March 2024

Deborah Holdstein introduces theÂ September issue.
Historicizing Critiques of Procedural Knowledge: Richard Weaver, Maxine Hairston, and Post-Process Theory
Authors: Brooks Ronald Clark
Published: March 2024

Because the ideological and methodological aims of post-process theory could distort the progressive agenda that has been connected to composition since the early twentieth century, we must look at this theory through the historical lens that Weaver and Hairston provide in order to maintain the progressive potential of post-process theory.
Plateau Indian Ways with Words
Authors: Monroe Barbara
Published: March 2024

The indigenous rhetoric of the Plateau Indians continues to exert a discursive influence on student writing in reservation schools today. Plateau students score low on state-mandated tests and on college writing assignments, in large part because the pervasive personalization of Plateau rhetoric runs counter to the depersonalization of academic argument. Yet, we can teach writing in ways that honor all students’ “and not just Plateau students’ rhetorical sovereignty” even as we prepare them for academic writing.
From the Editor: Uncovering Assumptions
Authors: Yancey Kathleen Blake
Published: March 2024

The editor introduces the articles in this issue and previews September’s special issue on the future of rhetoric and composition.
Responsibility and Composition’s Future in the Twenty-first Century: Reframing “Accountability”
Authors: Kassner Linda Adler , Harrington Susanmarie
Published: March 2024

“Accountability” is widely used in discussions about what should be happening in school, but it is not an appropriate guiding concept for assessments designed to improveteaching and learning. This article examines discussions about assessment for internal and external purposes; it then outlines an alternative frame for assessment that has “responsibility” as its core.
Writing in High School/Writing in College: Research Trends and Future Directions
Authors: Addison Joanne , McGee Sharon James
Published: March 2024

This article synthesizes and extends data from some of the most prominent and promising large-scale research projects in writing studies while also presenting results fromthe authors’ own research. By juxtaposing these studies, the authors offer a complex understanding of writing practices at the high school and college level. Future directionsare suggested in light of these research findings.
What Our Graduates Write: Making Program Assessment Both Authentic and Persuasive
Authors: Cosgrove Cornelius
Published: March 2024

This article argues for and models an approach to writing program assessment that relies on study of the writing practices of program graduates as a way to inform revisions in curriculum and teaching practices. The article also examines how conducting such assessments can help nondisciplinary publics understand the nature of composition studies.
Rhetorical Numbers: A Case for Quantitative Writing in the Composition Classroom
Authors: Wolfe Joanna
Published: March 2024

Contemporary argument increasingly relies on quantitative information and reasoning, yet our profession neglects to view these means of persuasion as central to rhetorical arts. Such omission ironically serves to privilege quantitative arguments as above “mere rhetoric.” Changes are needed to our textbooks, writing assignments, and instructor development programs to broaden how both we and our students perceive rhetoric.
Emergent Strategies for an Established Field: The Role of Worker-Writer Collectives in Composition and Rhetoric
Authors: Parks Steve , Pollard Nick
Published: March 2024

We argue that the Federation of Worker Writers and Community Publishers, with its dual emphasis on literacy and occupational skills, can serve as a new model for writing classrooms and writing program administrators. We further contend that the “contact zone” classroom should be replaced with community-based “federations.”
Transcending Normativity: Difference Issues in College English
Authors: Wallace David L.
Published: March 2024

The author reads five volumes of College English with attention to the extent to which authors account for issues of systemic difference in their writing—both in their representations of themselves as authors and in their representations of others—as one means to explore how (indeed whether) we have begun to transcend normativity in our disciplinary conversation and to identify problems in the way we deal with difference. He concludes by exploring how pedagogy and practice that deal substantively with difference are by nature transformative.
Across the Great Divide: Anxieties of Acculturation in College English
Authors: McCrimmon Miles
Published: March 2024

English faculty in community colleges feel pressured to make their composition courses acceptable for transfer to four-year schools. In particular, many of them feel obligated to emphasize academic research and argument at the expense of literature. But community college students will benefit from first-year courses that address a wide range of discourse by integrating literary study with writing instruction.
Student Investment in Political Topics
Authors: Thelin William H.
Published: March 2024

Students in college writing courses need to understand world issues, including the oppressive effects of the global economy. But their teachers need to give them a sense of agency and authority, rather than simply telling them what political positions to take. One example of a writing assignment that might engage as well as inform students involves analyzing Parade magazine’s annual list of the world’s worst dictators.
Considering Robinson Crusoe’s “Liberty of Conscience” in an Age of Terror
Authors: Cooney Brian C.
Published: March 2024

Robinson Crusoe demonstrates that John Locke’s principle of tolerance actually entails exclusions, for Crusoe ultimately destroys the cannibals to protect his supposedly liberal order. This paradox has implications for the current war in Iraq, where the United States government invokes the ideal of freedom while insisting on its own particular vision of democracy.
Opinion: Ethos Interrupted: Diffusing “Star” Pedagogy in Creative Writing Programs
Authors: Ritter Kelly
Published: March 2024

Many graduate creative writing programs depend on “star” faculty who have been hired more because of their professional reputation as writers than because of their commitment to teaching. As a result, such programs often fail to provide reflection on teaching that would truly serve their students. One step toward alleviating this problem is to offer undergraduate courses that enable creative writing graduate students to team-teach with regular faculty.
Symposium: 3D Stereotypes: Crash
Authors: Villanueva Victor
Published: March 2024

“Crash” does better than the Sidney Poitier looks at racism, but it still engages in stereotyping. In fact, the film becomes interesting if you see it as a study of stereotypes as a maze you can’t walk out of.
Symposium: Crash or How White Men Save the Day, Again
Authors: Ray Sangeeta
Published: March 2024

“Crash” is the worst kind of representation of what passes for multiculturalism today. A class will gain most from studying its construction of whiteness, including whiteness’s inextricable connections to “otherness(es).”
Reconsiderations: Louise Rosenblatt and the Ethical Turn in Literary Theory
Authors: Flynn Elizabeth A.
Published: March 2024

Although, by the time of her death, Louise Rosenblatt was highly respected in the fields of composition and reading theory, she did not enjoy the same status among literary theorists. Yet her book The Reader, The Text, The Poem can now be seen as a precursor of contemporary literary theory’s “ethical turn.”
Pedagogical In Loco Parentis: Reflecting on Power and Parental Authority in the Writing Classroom
Authors: Podis JoAnne , Podis Leonard
Published: March 2024

In higher education, issues of in loco parentis have been most often discussed in connection with campus administrative policies. College writing teachers need to reflect, however, on the ways they conceivably exercise parental authority in their own classrooms, through such models as the Stern Father and the Nurturing Mother.
Reconsiderations: Voice in Writing Again: Embracing Contraries
Authors: Elbow Peter
Published: March 2024

“Voice” is no longer a hot term in composition journals. Yet it continues to deserve scholarly attention, in part because it is still often referred to in classrooms and seems applicable to new forms of electronic communication. At the same time, we should avoid taking an either/or stand on the usefulness of “voice” as a term. This is a case where we should embrace contraries, by advocating concepts of “voice” on certain occasions and resisting the term on others.
In Defense of Reading Badly: The Politics of Identification in “Benito Cereno,” Uncle Tom’s Cabin, and Our Classrooms
Authors: Halpern Faye
Published: March 2024

Traditionally, we English faculty have warned our students against simply identifying with a literary work’s characters. For us, such attachments constitute “reading badly.” But we engage in identifications, too, including ones with the work’s author. A consideration of critical responses to “Benito Cereno” and Uncle Tom’s Cabin enables us to see how our own identifications often operate. In our teaching of reading, we should openly acknowledge our own commitments and help our students negotiate them.
Review: A Massive Failure of Imagination
Authors: Spellmeyer Kurt
Published: March 2024

Reviewed is Education’s End: Why Our Colleges and Universities Have Given Up on the Meaning of Life by Anthony T. Kronman.
How to Teach for Social Justice: Lessons from Uncle Tom’s Cabin and Cognitive Science
Authors: Bracher Mark
Published: March 2024

The author explains how principles of cognitive science can help teachers of literature use texts as a means of increasing students’ commitment to social justice. Applying these principles to a particular work, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, he calls particular attention to the relationship between cognitive science and literary schemes for building reader empathy.
Review: Stanley Fish’s Tightrope Act
Authors: Lazere Donald
Published: March 2024

Reviewed is Save the World on Your Own Time by Stanley Fish.
The Chicano Codex: Writing against Historical and Pedagogical Colonization
Authors: Baca Damían
Published: March 2024

Contemporary Chicano codex rhetorics subversively question the alleged superiority of Western writing traditions, while reminding us that Mesoamerican pictographs have been an important—although repressed—part of rhetorical history.
Opinion: An Argument for Archival Research Methods: Thinking Beyond Methodology
Authors: Eplattenier Barbara L’
Published: March 2024

In reporting their research, historians of rhetoric and composition should be more explicit and specific about their investigative methods.
A Virtual Veibershul: Blogging and the Blurring of Public and Private among Orthodox Jewish Women
Authors: Lieber Andrea
Published: March 2024

The blogs of various Orthodox Jewish women show that the digital realm enables them to blend the public and the private. That is, it allows them to participate in Jewish life without breaking the laws of modesty that otherwise prevent them from such public engagement.
Opinion: At the Precipice of Speech: English Studies, Science, and Policy (Ir)relevancy
Authors: Gallagher Chris W.
Published: March 2024

In facing policymakers who are pressuring us for objective assessment of our programs, we should not assume that a narrow set of traditional scientific methods and conventions will guarantee acceptance of our knowledge claims. Nor should we assume that our methods and methodologies that fall outside those tight boundaries will be unfairly treated. Rather, we need to have at our disposal the full range of what we know and how we know it as we engage with such policymakers, who—like the rest of us—are sometimes moved in mysterious ways.
Post-Mao Chinese Literary Women’s Rhetoric Revisited: A Case for an Enlightened Feminist Rhetorical Theory
Authors: Wu Hui
Published: March 2024

Identifying the specific complexities and historical context of post-Mao Chinese literary women’s rhetoric, along with ways they have been misread, the author argues in general that Western feminist critics need to be cautious about applying their concepts to non-Western women’s literature.
The Editorial We: Discussing Teaching Concepts
Authors: Moore Michael T. , Johnson Tara Star
Published: March 2024

The editor and this issue’s coeditor preview the articles in the April issue.
Becoming Centered: CEE Membership and Program Development
Authors: VanAntwerp Jill , Webb Allen , Perry Tonya , Richmond Jane Kia , Harden-Luster Leola , Schaafsma David
Published: March 2024

The authors argue that if CEE is to nurture and grow its membership in the coming years, we will need a more focused purpose related to the central mission of the organization: ’the effective education and development of students and professionals in English language arts education.’ To that end, the authors offer several specific recommendations for CEE which could serve primarily the ’inner circle’ or heart of CEE membership.
Reconstructing English Education in the 21st Century: The Action Agenda
Authors: Miller Suzanne M.
Published: March 2024

CEE Chair Suzanne M. Miller provides an overview of the CEE Leadership and Policy Summit articles that focuses on next steps. She asks CEE members individually and collectively to take up the calls for action across the pieces’ for research, pedagogical scholarship, program excellence, and activist participation in policy and politics.
Achieving Balance in Graduate Progreams: Negotiating Best Practices
Authors: Kirby Dawn Latta
Published: March 2024

Dealing with this recurrent, nearly archetypal, issue of finding balance between the practical and the theoretical in graduate programs is the task of English language arts educators and the requisite activity of graduate students in our field. The relevance of best practices in instruction is clear, but that is not the end goal of graduate school. Instead, graduate schools must help practitioners rediscover their curiosity and their professional imagination. English educators must create the time and space for inservice teachers who are our graduate students to discern the value and relevance of tying best practices to theory and theory to effective practice.
Changing the Way We Think in English Education: A Conversation in the Universal Barbershop
Authors: Tremmel Robert
Published: March 2024

This essay extends Robert Yagelskiߣs discuss sustainability; in teacher education by examining how the processes of Cartesian-Newtonian thinking limit the ability of both standards reformers and English educators to think in genuinely new ways and to conceive of real change. The essay includes a discussion of how standards reform since the publication of A Nation at Risk in 1983 has been based on arguments and ways of thinking similar to reform measures in the early twentieth century. The essay also discusses four areas of professional practice toward which English teacher educators might look for guidance in initiating real change. One key point of reference is the work of David Bohm, a physicist and philosopher of science, whose critique of scientific thinking represents a unique way of understanding how to understand and reconfigure approaches to educational reform in the twenty-first century.
Book Walk: Works That Move Our Teaching Forward: Helping Students Understand Long-Rang Planning through an Integration of Texts
Authors: Zigo Diane , Derrico Regina Dunlavey
Published: March 2024

Between 2002 and 2005, we worked together in a teaching block of two combined methods and instructional strategies courses in our graduate level initial certification program in English education. Each year, we continually revised the instructional experiences we planned for our students, based on our ongoing formative and summative assessments of their growth as reflective educators.
Living in, Learning from, Looking Back, Breaking through in the English Language Arts Methods Course: A Case Study of Two Preservice Teachers
Authors: Stockinger Pamela Crosslin
Published: March 2024

Preservice teachers often enter English language arts teacher preparation courses with untapped fears of writing and teaching writing due to null or bad experiences as K-12 students. In this article, I follow two preservice elementary teachers through a semester long methods course and reveal how they developed positive, clear images of themselves as writing teachers through active reflection and engagement in the course.
The Editorial We: Focus on Narrative Inquiry
Authors: Moore Michael T.
Published: March 2024

Editor Michael T. Moore introduces the theme of narrative inquiry and his two guest coeditors, both former editors of English Education.
English Teacher Learning for New Times: Digital Video Composing as Multimodal Literacy Practice
Authors: Miller Suzannex M.
Published: March 2024

Suzanne Miller examines the meaning of shifting notions of literacy for English education, drawing on her work in a long-term digital video composing project and in an ELA teacher education class to look at teachers’ engagements with this newly accessible multimodal literacy practice. She argues that English teachers need support for new kinds of embodied multimodal learning in order to be prepared for teaching students in 21st-century classrooms.
The Editorial We: What We Don’t Know
Authors: Moore Michael T.
Published: March 2024

Michael Moore introduces the articles in this issue.
The Editorial We: Where We Are Now
Authors: Moore Michael T.
Published: March 2024

Editor Michael Moore notes that his five-year editorship of English Education is half over. Reflecting on what he’s seen and done so far, he makes note of some immediate trends and then introduces the articles found in this issue.
The Legacy of English Education at NYU
Authors: Mayher John S.
Published: March 2024

With the retirements of John Mayher, Marilyn Sobelman, and Gordon Pradl, the NYU program in English education marks the end of an era. To reflect on and celebrate that legacy, we organized a session at, appropriately, the New York Convention of NCTE in November 2007. Featuring the retiring faculty and a random collection of our alumni, the session was celebration, reunion, and sober reflection on the past present and future of NYU’s program.
The Editorial We: What Is There about Change in This Issue of English Education?
Authors: Moore Michael T.
Published: March 2024

Editor Michael Moore talks about the new administration in Washington and what it might mean for education. Introducing the articles in this issue of English Education, he discusses what the Department of Education can learn from the work that these authors are doing.
The Skin We Ink: Tattoos, Literacy, and a New English Education
Authors: Kirkland David E.
Published: March 2024

David E. Kirkland turns our attention to the ways tattoos can represent “human” stories of literacy through the power of inked flesh, the self-portrait it creates, and the words and worlds that surround the body. The body, for Kirkland, is an important site of cultural production that represents the transformative, political, and personal terrains of literacy.
Literacy for Life
Authors: Lunsford Andrea Abernethy
Published: March 2024

Andrea Lunsford writes in the afterword, “Literacy for Life,” the stories young people tell in the articles collected here “are not about literacy in the service of school: they are about literacy for life.”
The Editorial We: Teaching English in a Sea of Change: Linguistic Pluralism and the New English Education
Authors: Kirkland David E.
Published: March 2024

Guest editor David Kirkland introduces this themed issue on linguistic pluralism, which grew out of a set of conversations initiated by the 2006’2008 NCTE Cultivating New Voices Fellows.
Preservice Teachers Planning for Critical Literacy Teaching
Authors: Wolfe Paula
Published: March 2024

This case reflects a yearlong project I, as the instructor of an Advanced Methods course, conducted with my students to help them plan and implement critical literacy units in their high school and middle school student teaching placements. To do so, I assigned student teachers to explore notions of critical literacy (including resistant reading, marginalized perspectives, and social action projects) and then use these methods to create and teach critical literacy units over two semesters. Students then uploaded these units, along with their reflections, to electronic portfolios. This research explores how these student teachers defined critical literacy for themselves and then planned, implemented, and reflected on their units.
English Education Program Assessment: Creating Standards and Guidelines to Advance English Teacher Preparation
Authors: Zancanella Don , Alsup Janet
Published: March 2024

In this dialogue with policymakers, Zancanella and Alsup write about Cee’s recent activities related to teacher preparation guidelines.
Teaching English Education and Lurching Forward
Authors: Shadiow Linda
Published: March 2024

Shadiow tells of an event that shifted her perspective on teaching methods courses and repositioned her teaching to focus on student learning.