bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
ASSOCIATION OF POLYMORPHISM OF THE BETA-CASEIN GENE WITH ECONOMIC EFFICIENCY OF USING OF WHITE AND BLACK CATTIE
Authors: Валитов Фарит Равилович , Парамонова Мария Алексеевна , Валитова Руфина Фаритовна
Published: March 2024

В статье идет речь о полиморфизме гена бета-казеина у поголовья крупного рогатого скота, разводимого в условиях Республики Башкортостан. В ходе исследования методом ПЦР-ПДРФ установлено влияние различных генотипов изученного гена на показатели молочной продуктивности и хозяйственно полезные признаки. Выявлены разнонаправленные корреляционные связи между основными показателями молочной продуктивности (удой, жир, белок) и полиморфизмом гена CSN2.

The article is devoted to studying of polymorphism of the beta-casein gene of cattle which is bred in the Republic of Bashkortostan. Using the PCR-RFLP method, the influence of different variants of the studied gene on the indicators of milk productivity is found. The multidirectional correlations between key indicators of milk productivity (yield, fat and protein) and polymorphism of the CSN2 gene are revealed.
НАЦИОНАЛЬНЫЙ ПРОЕКТ «ПРОИЗВОДИТЕЛЬНОСТЬ ТРУДА И ПОДДЕРЖКА ЗАНЯТОСТИ» КАК КОСВЕННЫЙ ИНСТРУМЕНТ ПОВЫШЕНИЯ КАДРОВОГО ПОТЕНЦИАЛА
Authors: Базанов Дмитрий Андреевич , Колесников Анатолий Викторович
Published: March 2024

В данной статье ставится вопрос о косвенном влиянии национального проекта «Производительность труда и поддержка занятости» на развитие кадрового потенциала вообще и кадрового потенциала государственных служащих в частности. В работе особо подчёркивается, что производительность труда является неотъемлемой частью кадрового потенциала, такого показателя качественных и количественных характеристик и квалификаций персонала, который определяет производственные возможности всей компании (отдела). Производительность труда как фактор, который является основным объектом национального проекта «Производительность труда и поддержка занятости», имеет специфические черты реализации и раскрытия (в контексте совершенствования кадрового потенциала) для государственной гражданской службы. В своей основе отличие это видится в разнице целей работы государственной службы и специфике выполняемых функций, а также продуктов работы служащих - что также находит отражение в выводах работы.
ASSESSMENT OF THE CURRENT ECOLOGICAL STATE OF THE LIPETSK REGION IN CONDITIONS OF ANTHROPOGENIC IMPACT
Authors: Щербин Александр Олегович
Published: March 2024

Антропогенные факторы по своей значимости оказывают весомое влияние на окружающую среду. В статье представлена оценка современного экологического состояния металлургического региона Липецкой области, развивающегося на принципах ответственного отношения к окружающей среде, высокой социальной ответственности и высокого качества управления по системе ESG.

Anthropogenic factors in their importance have a significant impact on the environment. The article presents an assessment of the current ecological state of the metallurgical region of the Lipetsk region, which is developing on the principles of responsible attitude to the environment, high social responsibility and high quality management according to the ESG system.
ОСОБЕННОСТИ ЦИФРОВИЗАЦИИ МЕХАНИЗМА ВЗАИМОДЕЙСТВИЯ ОРГАНОВ ПУБЛИЧНОЙ ВЛАСТИ И ГРАЖДАНСКОГО ОБЩЕСТВА НА СОВРЕМЕННОМ ЭТАПЕ
Authors: Голубятников Д.О.
Published: March 2024

В статье изучаются основные аспекты цифровизационного воздействия на механизм установления взаимосвязи между гражданским обществом и органами государственной власти. Проведён анализ использования цифровых платформ, модернизирующих построение отношений между гражданами и властью. Выделены основные перспективы и аспекты цифровизации публичной политики
PERCOLATION DISCHARGE ON ELECTRIFIED DIELECTRIC SURFACE
Authors: Кузьмин Юрий Игоревич
Published: March 2024

Изучен транспорт заряда по поверхности электризованных пленок политетрафторэтилена и фторированного этиленпропилена при адсорбции электропроводящей фазы. Установлено, что разряд электризованной поверхности обусловлен перколяционными процессами.

The charge transport on the electrically charged surface of polytetrafluoroethylene and fluorinated ethylene propylene films in the presence of the adsorption of an electrically conductive phase has been studied. It has been established that the leak of charge from an electrically charged surface is determined by percolation processes.
Hegel, Davidson, and the Dialogical Character of Knowledge
Authors: Esmkhani Mohammadreza , Hosseini Seyed Masoud ,   Philosophy Documentation Center
Published: March 2024

This paper scrutinizes the dialogical character of knowledge from the perspectives of Hegel’s and Davidson’s philosophies. First, it outlines their analogous trains of thought, particularly their “anti-representational” and “intersubjective” accounts of knowledge. Second, it draws a parallel between the two by discussing their contrasting views of the structure and goal of knowledge, showing that while Davidson advocates an open-ended, scheme-less empirical knowledge, Hegel maintains the notion of a (universal-rational) scheme and a goal-oriented dialectical process in which “the true is the whole.” This section then critically traces their underlying disagreement to their divergent views on the nature of meaning, language, and thought. Finally, it argues that their views can be seen as complementary to two versions of dialectic, showing that while Hegel’s approach, akin to Platonic dialectic, focuses on the self-contained and “Truth”-oriented “negotiational” movement of ideas, Davidson’s, reminiscent of Socratic elenchus, emphasizes the truth-oriented ‘conversational’ interaction of subjects exchanging concepts.
Internal Self-Esteem
Authors: Chatham-Carpenter April ,   Religious Communication Association
Published: March 2024

From a study of 59 adult women's stories about self-esteem, a commontheme emerged from 41 of the stories - that faith experiences play an important role in those women's self-esteem. This paper explains both the positive and negative roles played by Christianity and the church, and relationships within the church, for these women's self-esteem. The positive influences on self-esteem were typically held by the women who spoke of a "personal" relationship with God vs. a "church"-centered relationship with God, leading the author to propose that God can be considered as a "significant other" for the theory of symbolic interactionism. Implications for communication scholars, in terms of expanding the theory of symbolic interactionism to include a "divine other" and one's faith experiences, are explored.
Is the Epistle to Diognetus an apology?
Authors: Hollon Bryan C. ,   Religious Communication Association
Published: March 2024

This paper aims to bring clarification and justification to the common assumption that The Epistle to Diognetus is a second-century Christian apology. The essay begins with an analysis of the rhetorical situation of Diognetus and then proceeds, in the second section, to a rhetorical analysis of several other second-century apologies in order to illustrate how they contrast and compare to Diognetus. In the third section I argue that, despite the differences between the works considered, they are all united in the fact that they arise from similar rhetorical situations.
Communicating in Silence
Authors: Hermann Julie A. ,   Religious Communication Association
Published: March 2024

For the majority of known history, the deaf have been considered social and spiritual outcasts. Limited knowledge of deaf impairment restricted deaf communication in society and the church, as well as in education. This essay contrasts historical practices in deaf education with those of two Benedictine monks, Pedro Ponce de León and Abbé Charles-Michel de l'Épée, who are considered the first to have educated the deaf. Furthermore, this essay suggests a contemporary model for deaf education based on the Rule of Saint Benedict as applied by the Benedictines in early deaf education.
The Means of Revival
Authors: Miller Eric C. ,   Religious Communication Association
Published: March 2024

Throughout the second and third quarters of the nineteenth century, Charles Grandison Finney distinguished himself as the most successful evangelical preacher in the United States. Trained as a lawyer before converting to Christianity and its ministry, Finney came to the pulpit with a fiercely rational and accusatory style that placed demands upon his listeners. In formulating his appeal, Finney also fashioned an innovative Protestant theology that challenged New England Calvinism. After establishing that each sinner has the power to self-reform, he spread the message to audiences across the Northeast, sparking a series of revivals that made his reputation. In the 1830s, Finney was asked to explain his method from his New York City pulpit, and did so across twenty-two lectures that detailed his revival strategy. This essay employs Finney’s theory of individual conversion to examine his theory of mass revival, noting the essentially deliberative character of each and recognizing the lasting influence of both on evangelical life in the United States.
Understanding the Role of Prayer and Relationship with God for Parents Before and After the Death of a Child
Authors: Bennett Elizabeth M. , Muhamad Jessica Wendorf , Jordan Jackson Felecia F. ,   Religious Communication Association
Published: March 2024

The purpose of this study was to conceptualize the role of prayer and relationship with God for parents who experienced the death of a child. In-depth interviews were conducted with 18 parents. A thematic analysis was conducted. Results of this study expand on the Relational Prayer Theory by Baesler (1999) and the direct divine communication model suggested by Sigler (2014), including a discussion of receptive prayer as defined by Baesler (1999) in the Relational Prayer Theory and of direct divine communication as defined by Sigler (2014).
“All Scripture Is Inspired by God”
Authors: Ward Mark ,   Religious Communication Association
Published: March 2024

Three in ten Americans believe that the Bible is the Word of God and should be taken literally, word for word. Surveys and studies show this contingent of literalists is composed primarily of evangelicals and, for White evangelicals in particular, that biblical literalism is a strong predictor of their conservative politics. The present essay, based on a case study of an evangelical church observed over three years, argues that biblical literalism is not only a belief but also a culture. Further, literalist culture is constructed and sustained by interwoven discourses that dynamically circulate across the macro, meso, and micro levels of speaking practice in the evangelical social system.
Failed Crusade
Authors: Fowler Randall ,   Religious Communication Association
Published: March 2024

This paper argues that the twenty-year U.S. war in Afghanistan can persuasively be viewed as a holy war prosecuted on behalf of American-style liberalism. To make this argument, it develops a framework for understanding holy war as an issue of communication and draws on the work of Émile Durkheim, Patrick Deneen, James K. A. Smith, and Judith Shklar to situate liberalism as a religion. It then details how U.S. presidents proclaimed and prosecuted holy war in Afghanistan in five acts, showing how the conflict developed as a (liberal) religious war under Bush and continued until the August 2021 U.S. military withdrawal.
“I Never Had a Coming Out Experience”
Authors: Worman Braedon G. , Kartch Falon ,   Religious Communication Association
Published: March 2024

In this study, we identify the privacy rules of people with religious beliefs different from the exclusivist Christian religious beliefs of their family members. Sixteen individuals with significantly different religious beliefs than their exclusivist Christian family members were interviewed to discern the privacy rules guiding their decisions regarding their religious belief revelations. An analysis of interview transcripts demonstrated that participants created privacy rules about what information about their religious beliefs to reveal and how to reveal information about their religious beliefs. Results are considered in light of preceding literature on religious belief revelation and privacy management.
Ecclesiastes and the Rhetoric of Radical Agnosticism
Authors: Winslow Luke , Winslow Karen S. ,   Religious Communication Association
Published: March 2024

Employing the critical tools of religious communication scholarship, this essay explores Belief in a Just World Theory as a potent discursive source for unquestioned and oppressive norms of thought and speech. For many social scientists, Belief in a Just World Theory is an elegant, parsimonious, and compelling tool for exploring the sources of our most intractable social challenges. And yet, it seems our world maintains no homeostatic orientation toward justice. To reconcile that paradox, we begin this paper by re-positioning Belief in a Just World Theory as an unfalsifiable pseudo-science drawing rhetorical strength from a reservoir of religious discourse. We then analyze the book of Ecclesiastes in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament as a theoretically rich and politically urgent source of reconciliation, before concluding with a discussion of the wider implications that can be culled from our analysis for building and advancing the stock of knowledge in communication and religion.
Examining Website-Based Mission Statements of Traditionally Black Methodist Denominational Churches in the Top Ten Cities for African Americans in the United States
Authors: Benton Darius ,   Religious Communication Association
Published: March 2024

Textual analysis was conducted in order to examine the usage of and messages communicated through mission statements found on the websites of traditionally Black Methodist denominational churches. The churches sampled are in the ten United States cities Forbes cited as being the best economically for African Americans. Although online/web presence was low among churches in the test, findings suggest thematic similarities among the publicly available mission statements. Practical suggestions include training church leaders to craft and communicate effective mission statements and implementing best practices for developing a strategic online/web presence in order to achieve greater organizational goals of access and relevance in a changing society.
Anwesen Arche-tecture and the Amplification of the Natural Law
Authors: Chua Soo Meng Jude ,   Religious Communication Association
Published: March 2024

In this paper, I discuss and theorize the semiosis that occurs when poetizing about dynamic, addressing, and mysterious Being-physis. Such poetizing is beneficial for the grasp of the natural law and, thus, for ethical formation. The defense of the natural law and its prescribed basic goods still is hindered to some extent by the modernist milieu that persists even today in our so-called postmodern era. I confront the lingering Cartesian spirit in its various modes—viz., the reductive obsession with speculative self-evident propositions as a foundation for moral ideas well as the tendency to trace the source of all intelligible insights to the subjective consciousness—in order to develop a different approach towards the defense of the natural law. Specifically, I marshal ideas in the later Martin Heidegger and the Thomistic tradition, including ideas in John of St. Thomas’ semiotics as retrieved by John Deely, to articulate the importance of “Anwesen arche-tecture” qua the environing of Being-physis and the poetizing of the same to amplify the voice of the natural law. I analyze the process of symbolic externalization when poetizing Being and consider the metaphysical implications of the medium’s contribution to semiosis, which would include an anti-nominalist theory of relations and an account of participated intentionality, and thus, of esse-in-the-world. This paper is a Thomistic appropriation of Heideggerian themes for “semioethical” or “significal” theorizing, moving back and forth (“translating”) across different philosophical paradigms and discourses to locate the matter (die Sache) for thinking.
“And If You Must, Use Words”: Indirect Religion Communication in Keaggy’s The Master and the Musician
Authors: Hatch John ,   Religious Communication Association
Published: March 2024

Building on Fraser’s account of religious persuasion through indirection, this essay explores how instrumental music can communicate faith, as demonstrated in a groundbreaking album by guitarist Phil Keaggy. I argue that while music functions as pure persuasion in its unfolding form, it can also facilitate ordinary persuasion on matters of faith by evoking particular impressions of religious pathos, ethos, and/or mythos, which may be reinforced in liner notes. When Keaggy, a pioneer of Jesus music, made an album of original instrumentals, a spiritually-themed story was added to ensure acceptance by that audience. This story conveys faith indirectly, while the music itself somewhat evokes the ethos and pathos of the gospel. After the story was dropped in the reissued album, key qualities of Keaggy’s music and ethos helped sustain his art’s potential to convey spiritual meaning. For communication scholars, discerning such potential requires closereading and/or audience studies.
Challenging #Sermongate Ontology
Authors: Taylor Lakelyn E. , Knight G. Brandon ,   Religious Communication Association
Published: March 2024

Even in academic spaces, the ontology of plagiarism is contested, but it is even more so in Protestant evangelical contexts. Thus the very notion of plagiarism in the academy—and now in religious spaces—is unclear and may be subject to criticisms of power and questions of who gets to define what plagiarism means. In this article, we aim to elucidate the reemerging conversation about plagiarism in sermonic discourse captured in the 2021 #Sermongate scandal. We introduce the systematic, histo-cultural factors which have worked to shape these ontological beliefs about sermonic plagiarism and advocate for a general set of plagiarism standards.
Reviews research on applying machine learning techniques to reduce false positives for network intrusion detection systems
Authors: Rajora Kavita , Abdulhussein Nazar salih
Published: March 2024

High false positive rates impede the adoption of anomaly detection methods, which have promise for detecting novel cyber threats. Techniques reviewed include Extreme Learning Machine (ELM), Hidden Markov Models (HMM), situation awareness frameworks, ensemble methods, and feature selection algorithms when applied to contemporary benchmark datasets. Findings show combinations of ELM, HMMs, and ensemble classifiers can achieve reduced false positive rates. However, gaps still exist in research using current representative data.
Shaping the Future: Contemporary Political and Social Movements
Authors: Sharma Dr. Harshita
Published: March 2024

In the intricate tapestry of human history, the threads of change are often woven by the collective actions of individuals united by shared visions. Within this mosaic, contemporary political and social movements stand as dynamic agents of transformation, shaping the trajectory of societies around the globe. This chapter embarks on an exploration of these movements, seeking to unveil the intricacies, influences, and impacts that define their existence. The world today is witness to a kaleidoscope of movements that transcend geographical boundaries, addressing a myriad of issues ranging from environmental sustainability to social justice. As we navigate the complex landscape of these endeavors, it becomes imperative to dissect the very essence of political and social movements, understanding their evolution, motivations, and the profound effects they imprint upon the fabric of our shared reality.
BİR ‘MECNÛN’ YARATMAK: EDİRNELİ ŞÂHİDÎ, ALİ ŞÎR NEVÂYÎ VE FUZÛLÎ’NİN LEYLÂ VÜ MECNÛN MESNEVİLERİNDE MECNÛN’UN KİŞİLİĞİNE TESİR EDEN ANNE-BABA TUTUMLARI
Authors: Ersin Yusuf
Published: March 2024

Türk edebiyatında kaleme alınan aşk mesnevileri arasında Leylâ vü Mecnûn mesnevilerinin yeri oldukça önemlidir. Anadolu sahasında Leylâ ile Mecnûn’un hikâyesinin anlatıldığı ilk mesnevi Gülşen-i Uşşâk müstakil adıyla Edirneli Şâhidî tarafından XV. asırda te’lîf edilmiştir. Yine aynı asırda bir Leylâ vü Mecnûn mesnevisi de Çağatay sahasında Ali Şîr Nevâyî tarafından kaleme alınmıştır. Azerbaycan sahasında ise Fuzûlî XVI. yüzyılda Türk edebiyatının en meşhur Leylâ vü Mecnûn mesnevisini ortaya koymuştur.

Son yıllarda disiplinler arası araştırmaların sağladığı imkânlar sayesinde Türk edebiyatı alanında yapılan çalışmaların çeşitlendiği ve edebi metinlerin yeni bakış açılarıyla da ele alınıp incelendiği görülmektedir. Psikoloji sahasında yapılan araştırmalar neticesinde ortaya konan veriler şüphesiz Türk edebiyatı alanında özgün çalışmalara kapı aralamaktadır. Çünkü psikoloji ile edebiyatın temel ve müşterek unsuru insandır. Mesneviler ise dönemlerinin tahkiye ihtiyacını karşılayan edebi metinlerdir ve insan da mesnevilerin olay örgüsü içerisinde tahkiyenin gerçekleşmesi için vazgeçilmez bir unsurdur.

Ebeveyn tutumlarının bebeklikten itibaren bireyin kişiliğini şekillendirdiği bilinmektedir. Leylâ vü Mecnûn mesnevilerinin merkezî kişisi olan Kays, eserlerin sonuna değin bu ismiyle kalmamış Leylâ adlı bir kıza âşık olduktan sonra tedricen yeni bir kimliğe dönüşüp Mecnûn adını almıştır. Bu makalede ebeveyn tutumlarının Kays’ın Mecnûn’a dönüşümü üzerindeki etkisi araştırılmıştır. Böylece Edirneli Şâhidî, Ali Şîr Nevâyî ve Fuzûlî’nin mesnevilerinin merkezi kişisi olan Kays’ın Mecnûn’a dönüşüp âşık ve deli tipi olarak konumlandırılmasında Leylâ’nın yanı sıra ebeveyn tutumlarının da onun kişiliğine tesir eden rolü ortaya konmuştur.
Directed Self-Placement: An Attitude of Orientation
Authors: Royer Daniel J. , Gilles Roger
Published: March 2024

If proper placement is a matter of guiding students into the course that is best suited to their educational background and current writing ability, directed self-placement may be the most valid procedure we can use. (Royer and Gilles 69-70).
Michelle Cliff and the Paradox of Privilege
Authors: Aegerter Lindsay Pentolfe
Published: March 2024

Discusses pedagogical strategies that encourage keener and more sensitive student reactions to the postcolonial problematics represented in two essays by Jamaican writer Michelle Cliff, essays which often provoke hostility in mainstream, White, middle-class undergraduates. Discusses ways to create a context in the literature or writing classroom that discourages a facile dismissal of Cliff.
Incest, Incorporation, and King Lear in Jane Smiley’s A Thousand Acres
Authors: Leslie Marina
Published: March 2024

Suggests that Jane Smiley’s “A Thousand Acres” is a faithful and a “profoundly subversive” revision of Shakespeare’s “King Lear.” Argues that the terms in which the novel have been most frequently praised, no less than the case made for banning it, raise important questions about the relationship between the novel’s secret and the source of Smiley’s Shakespearean “production.”
Abidjan Journal
Authors: Ruetten Mary K.
Published: March 2024

Describes the author’s experiences as a Fulbright scholar and English-as-a-Foreign-Language lecturer at the National University of Cote d’Ivoire in Abidjan before and during teacher and student strikes in May 1991. Notes that the author experienced what education is like for many people in the world--education in Abidjan was serious and deadly.
Service Learning and English Studies: Rethinking “Public” Service
Authors: Schutz Aaron , Gere Anne Ruggles
Published: March 2024

Uses the example of service learning to examine connections between and definitions of public and private as they are deployed in writing, literacy studies, and the field of English. Argues that, done effectively, service learning fits well into an English Studies that is reconsidering its own boundaries and internal relationships.
Distant Voices: Teaching Writing in a Culture of Technology
Authors: Anson Chris M.
Published: March 2024

Describes two ways that teaching and responding to student writing are being pressured by rapidly developing technologies now being introduced into educational institutions. Discusses (1) the increasing replacement of face-to-face contact by “virtual” interaction via multimedia technology, e-mail communication systems, and the recently expanded capabilities of the World Wide Web; and (2) distance education.
On the Task of Developing Guidelines
Authors: Small Robert C.
Published: March 2024

Relates how the Standing Committee on Teacher Preparation and Certification of the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) came together and worked together to develop guidelines on English and language arts teacher education which will stand from 1996-2006. Discusses getting from drafts to a published document. Full article available in print version only.
Difficult Flows and Waves: Unfixing Beliefs in a Grade 8 Language Arts Literacy Class
Authors: Reilly Mary Ann
Published: March 2024

Considers how to “unfix” certainties about students’ potential and their performances in class; uses three middle school students dealing with language arts as case studies. Describes how learning occurred over the school year. Includes responses that offer a record of success and comments on fighting “fixity” in teacher education.
A Good Gang: Thinking Small with Preservice Teachers in a Chicago Barrio
Authors: DeStigter Todd
Published: March 2024

Argues that it is important for beginning teachers to receive part of their training in a small school like Latino Youth Alternative High School at the University of Illinois-Chicago. Relates how the program functions; gives Latino students’ and tutors’ reasons for appreciating it. Includes responses about teacher-student relationships as key to a school’s success, and about small alternative schools.
Editorial: Thirteen Ways of Looking at ’To Read’
Authors: Schaafsma David , Vinz Ruth
Published: March 2024

The articles in this issue demonstrate how some teachers are struggling to answer the question, “What do we mean by reading?” This editorial includes thirteen statements about reading, from teachers at various levels in their careers.
Reflections on Standards and Standard Setting: An Insider/Outsider Perspective on the NCTE/IRA Standards
Authors: Mayher John S.
Published: March 2024

Reflects on the process of standards writing conducted by the National of Council of Teachers of English and the International Reading Association, from both an insider and an outsider perspective. Reflects on the larger forces at play and the deeper issues which derailed the standards effort and which “produced standards that no one has much good to say for.”
Multiple Ways of Knowing in Literature Classrooms
Authors: Hines Mary Beth , Appleman Deborah
Published: March 2024

Uses data from case studies of literature classrooms to suggest that contemporary literary theories can enrich literature instruction in both high school and college classrooms. Claims that theories of interpretation offer not only ways of reading texts, but also ways of seeing and interpreting beyond the world of the classroom.
Teaching Grammar in the Context of Writing
Authors: Weaver Constance
Published: March 2024

Constance Weaver speaks to NCTE’s position on the teaching of grammar and gives some research background for this position in “Teaching Grammar in the Context of Writing.”
Of Fake Verbs and Kid Words: Developing a Useful Grammar
Authors: Yoder Rhoda Byler
Published: March 2024

Rhoda Byler Yoder’s “Of Fake Verbs and Kid Words: Developing a Useful Grammar” gives useful exercises for teaching grammar (without the worksheets or grammar book exercises) along with a detailed description of how to teach “useful grammar.”
A New Fashioned Book Burning
Authors: Gardner Robert
Published: March 2024

Reports on results of a teacher’s experiment in book burning as a lesson accompanying the teaching of Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451. Discusses student reactions and the purpose of or justification for the experimental lesson.
Global Issues: Disequilibrium in the Classroom: Spanish and American Settings
Authors: Sio-Castiñeira Begoña
Published: March 2024

Suggests that the contrasting cultural and material circumstances of children in the United States and Spain contribute to their relative capacities for critical thinking and discussion. Suggests that Spanish adolescents hesitate to take a stand without openly discussing their feelings, while North American students hate discussion that wanders into the unknown.
New Teachers: Mixing Memory and Desire: Some Reflections on Student Teaching and Teacher Education
Authors: Slifkin Josh M.
Published: March 2024

Details the history of California’s experience with large-scale writing assessment. Describes the introduction, development, and scoring of the California Assessment Program, later renamed the California Learning Assessment System (CLAS). Discusses controversies over removal of certain writing prompts and objections to CLAS. Notes that funding for CLAS was vetoed in 1994.
Our Repressed Reading Addictions: Teachers and Young Adult Series Books
Authors: Reid Louann , Cline Ruth K. J.
Published: March 2024

In this article, Louann Reid and Ruth K.J. Cline tout the attraction of series novels to avid readers and the role of these novels both as entrees into reading and as the books kids like to read best when they read for pleasure. They argue that pleasure reading is not just for after school’ that, in fact, that students who only know reading as an assignment never come to enjoy reading as lifelong readers. These students don’t read except when they have to and, so, never develop the reading skills they so need to succeed in our information-processing, problem-solving world.
Young Adult Literature: Do You Really Think That’s Funny?
Authors: Allen Janet S.
Published: March 2024

Presents annotations of 32 works of young adult literature that are not depressing but rather give the reader a good laugh.
Rainbow Teachers Rainbow Students: Teachers for the Dream
Authors: Houtchens Bobbi Ciriza
Published: March 2024

Describes a high school program that encourages bilingual students to become tutors in their own community and to finish school and become teachers.
Taking Charge of School Reform: English Teachers as Leaders
Authors: Wolfe Denny , Lee Manning M.
Published: March 2024

Offers eight suggestions regarding how teachers can employ effective strategies to bring about authentic and lasting school improvement: do not coerce; help when asked; do classroom-based research; be the school’s best listener; join a National Writing Project site; relate to colleagues as to students; organize seminars/workshops that focus on best practices; and work visibly.
RainbowTeachers/Rainbow Students: Celebrating Heritage through Literature
Authors: Cruz MaryCarmen , Duff Ogle Burks
Published: March 2024

Describes ways to promote literacy and appreciation for heritage by celebrating the literacy contributions of authors of color, such as Heritage Readings and African American Read–Ins. Offers suggestions of favorite selections by Hispanic, African American, Native American, and Asian American authors.
Environmental Children’s Books Created by the Hearts and Hands of High School Students
Authors: Scharle Catherine M.
Published: March 2024

Describes how, as a result of the Rivers Curriculum Project (an interdisciplinary program using river environmental themes and coordinating activities in several disciplines), students in a high school English class wrote and illustrated children’s books, shared those story books with young children, and shared their story books at the yearly Clean Water Celebration.
David Haynes: Chronicler of the African American Middle Class
Authors: Barron Ronald
Published: March 2024

Profiles writer David Haynes, and discusses his four novels (an award-winning young adult book and three novels for the adult market). Concludes that Haynes’ success as a novelist is due to his characters, a healthy dose of humor, and his realistic depiction of a wide range of African American characters without resorting to sensationalism or stereotypes.
Silent Voices: What Happens to Quiet Students During Classroom Discussions?
Authors: Townsend Jane S.
Published: March 2024

Offers a case study of three 11th–grade students who viewed tapes of their class discussions and commented on their own involvement. Argues that students are silent for wide–ranging reasons; that students who are quiet may be learning; and that teachers should consider multiple means to spur students thinking. Lists ways to help students speak out.
Teaching Shakespeare to Learning Disabled Students
Authors: Johnson Kathryn King
Published: March 2024

Describes how, at a school in Texas, Shakespeare becomes a teaching vehicle for learning-disabled students as they engage in a year-long class that studies Shakespeare and his times, as well as produce an entire play. Argues that the experience works so successfully because it is student-centered, collaborative, and experiential.
It Beckons, and It Baffles: Resurrecting Emily Dickinson (& Poetry) in the Student-Centered Clasroom
Authors: Thomas P.L.
Published: March 2024

Describes an efficient, open-ended set of instructional activities for high school students that has students analyze song lyrics of R.E.M. (an alternative rock band from Athens, Georgia) for literary techniques, topics, themes, and form as preparation to experiment with reading, deciphering, and mimicking Emily Dickinson.
Resources and Reviews: Rethinking Choices in the English Classroom: A Challenge and Some Possibilities
Authors: Ericson Bonnie
Published: March 2024

Offers a review of a book by John Gaughan, "Cultural Reflections: Critical Teaching and Learning in the English Classroom," a book filled with teaching ideas and insights that challenge English language-arts teachers to immerse students in text and topics that are important in their lives and to genuinely consider students and communities in making and taking control of teaching choices.
Global Issues: The Odyssey of the Athens Writing Project
Authors: Fotinelli Georgianna Striggles
Published: March 2024

Describes the Athens Writing Project, how it began, and the role it has served and continues to serve. Discusses the issue of voice, and describes a reflective writing sequence used in the project.
Short Fiction: First Place: Baptism
Authors: Brelinski Val
Published: March 2024

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Poetry: Third Place: Route 66
Authors: Brelinski Val
Published: March 2024

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Poetry: Honorable Mention: The Bullfrog
Authors: Alexander Jo
Published: March 2024

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Multiculturally Challenged
Authors: Jasper Gigi
Published: March 2024

Voices the lament and the anger of a lone black teacher in an all-white school district in Wyoming trying to teach the “other” while simultaneously representing the “other.”
Young Adult Literature: Finding Common Ground: Multicultural YA Literature
Authors: Crowe Chris
Published: March 2024

Argues that multicultural young adult literature can help to break down prejudices and broaden narrow minds. Notes that good books about people from various ethnic groups engage readers in the compounded conflicts of adolescence while helping teenagers discover that they have much in common with their fellow human beings. Notes briefly nine young adult books worth reading.
Oh, What a Tangled Web We’ve Wovene! Helping Students Evaluate Sources
Authors: Gardner Susan A. , Benham Hiltraut H. , Newell Bridget M.
Published: March 2024

Discusses the problem of sources in student research; evaluating web resources for authority and accuracy; and evaluating objectivity of web sources (their currency and coverage). Notes helpful web sites about evaluating sources. Describes some web evaluation exercises for students, and outlines three assignments on evaluating web sources.
There It Was, That One Sex Scene: English Teachers on Censorship
Authors: Agee Jane
Published: March 2024

Presents the perspectives of five experienced high school English teachers on how the threat of censorship influences their selection of literary works and their teaching methods. Claims teachers need strong support from administrators and professional organizations in order to present a culturally diverse literature curriculum.
At Home with Poetry: Constructing Poetry Anthologies in the High School Classroom
Authors: Scimone Anthony J.
Published: March 2024

Describes the success of a unit for tenth-grade students wherein they created a book of poetry. Provides guidelines for the unit and evaluation criteria. Claims the “books” turned out to be far superior to the “flat pro forma” poetry papers assigned in the past.
International English
Authors: Gerlach Jeanne Marcum
Published: March 2024

Gives examples of successfully exploring the pedagogical possibilities of the Internet in both breaking down the walls of censorship and engaging students in the dialectics necessary to understand their world. Cautions that technological integration of the “global village” must be carefully handled in order to avoid repression of alternative voices and/or cultural annihilation.
Reconstructing English: From the 1890s to the 1990s and Beyond
Authors: Nelms Ben F.
Published: March 2024

Argues that an understanding of developments in the 1890s (when disparate strands were brought together as one discipline--English--along with a movement toward uniform standards) can inform responses to current movements and initiatives. Outlines 5 significant initiatives that came to the author’s attention during his editorship of “English Journal” (1987-1994) that hold promise for the next century of English.
Peace by Piece: The Freeing Power of Language and Literacy through the Arts
Authors: Wright Mary F. , Kowalczyk Sandra
Published: March 2024

Describes a number of class activities and student projects that the authors have used to teach the language and literature of peace in seventh- and eighth-grade reading and language arts classes, via theme-based units, interdisciplinary projects, and original theatrical student productions that celebrate language and literacy through the arts.
The Struggle Itself: Teaching Writing as We Know We Should
Authors: Thomas P. L.
Published: March 2024

Asks what English teachers must do to improve their quest for fostering vivid, dynamic, original, and thoughtful writers. Argues that conceptual shifts must occur, more people must be educated about writing and learning to write research from the past must fuel future research, a unified conceptual writing curriculum must be implemented, and classroom practices must be dynamically reshaped.
Teacher Researchers Discover Magic in Forming an Adult Writing Workshop
Authors: Keffer Ann , Carr Shelley , Lanier Barbara R. , Mattison Leah , Wood Debby , Stanulis Randi Nevins
Published: March 2024

Teachers make their own writing an object of inquiry, helping them see the power of writing for themselves and leading to a better understanding of how to teach writing in their classrooms.
Creating Spaces for Equity? The Role of Positioning in Peer-Led Literature Discussions
Authors: Evans Karen S.
Published: March 2024

Literature discussion groups put students at the center of literature study and are intended to create a more democratic forum where students 9 voices are heard and valued. But observations in one classroom show that even in such groups, factors like gender, cultural background, and status play a role in whose ideas get expressed and are actually listened to.
Bookalogues: Talking About Childern’s Books
Authors: Martinez Miriam , Nash Marcia F.
Published: March 2024

Presents brief annotations of 25 children’s books that focus on heroes and heroines: ancient, traditional, and modern; real-life and fictional; and prominent and not prominent.
Learning Is Born of Doubting: Cultivating a Skeptical Stance
Authors: Whitin David J. , Whitin Phyllis
Published: March 2024

Argues that skepticism is the force that keeps inquiry in motion. Describes how two fourth-grade classes’ ongoing investigations of birds fostered a skeptical stance. Relates stories from these classrooms to illustrate three strategies that support learning to be skeptics: examining knowledge in context; challenging the assumptions of models; and exposing the limitations of statistical information.
Letters to the Editors
Authors: Leick Carolyn , Graves Don , Gersten Russell , Isaacson Steve , Rex Lesley , Green Judith , Dixon Carol
Published: March 2024

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Influences of Shared Poetry Texts: The Chorus in Voices
Authors: Kuhlman Wilma D. , Bradley Linda
Published: March 2024

Discusses the development of voice through a specific free-form poetry-writing experience. Suggests a method for teaching poetry that draws heavily on poets from diverse ethnic and cultural backgrounds. Shares evidence that this approach to teaching poetry can be the starting point for students developing writers’ voice, and suggests ways to move from poetry to other writing genres.
Making Meaning with Art: Children’s Stories
Authors: Frei Rochelle I.
Published: March 2024

Investigates the role of art in understanding children’s literacy processes and strategies. Finds that the kindergarten children exhibited typical behaviors of language learning. Argues that art needs to be considered as a primary vehicle to understanding children’s literacy processes and strategies.
Different Texts, Different Emergent Writing Forms
Authors: Zecker Liliana Barro
Published: March 2024

Examines young children’s ability to vary the forms of emergent writing as they wrote a story, a shopping list, and a letter to a friend at three different times during the school year. Finds that children apply their emergent knowledge about written language differently. Indicates a considerable mismatch between written products and knowledge of genre characteristics.
Parents and Teachers as Readers: The Book Club as Meeting Place
Authors: Zaleski Joan , Duvall Lori , Weil Chris
Published: March 2024

Describes the attempt to reinitiate conversation and dialogue between teachers and parents through a Book Club called “Parents and Teachers as Readers” in which teachers and parents from one elementary school came together to read and discuss children’s books. Looks at how assumptions regarding teaching, parenting, and reading became topics of the group.
Negotiating Roles in Collaborative Literacy Research: Re-examining Issues of Power and Equity
Authors: Evans Karen S.
Published: March 2024

Describes the collaboration in a 5th-grade classroom between the author (a teacher educator) and a former student of hers (the 5th-grade teacher). Complicates notions of equity and empowerment in collaborative research by outlining the cycles and shifts they experienced while constantly renegotiating their positions.
Theory and Practice: An Interview with Louise M. Rosenblatt
Authors: Karolides Nicholas J.
Published: March 2024

Louise Rosenblatt discusses teaching methods, reading processes, application of theory to practice, literature-based curriculum, and what she is working on now in this interview.
Reading a Child’s Writing as a Social Text
Authors: Sumida Anna Y.
Published: March 2024

Contends that children assimilate enormous amounts of information from society. Reveals the presence, in one child’s fictional piece of writing, of complex layers of gender (including gender stereotypes), societal tensions, and economic social forces which one might expect to be beyond the grasp of a seven-year-old.
The Emperor’s New Education
Authors: Wilson Lorraine
Published: March 2024

Presents, in the form of a fable, a challenge to readers to expose the Emperor’s new education as being more about getting rid of public education than about literacy.
Playing Possum: A Young Child’s Responses to Information Books
Authors: Maduram Ida
Published: March 2024

Examines the author’s daughter’s spontaneous responses to information books, especially those responses that occurred outside book-sharing sessions. Investigates response episodes as: casual conversations, a reevaluation of facts, reflections of complex thinking, transactions between life and literature, and portraits of personal inquiry.
Rhythm of the Caribbean: Connecting Oral History and Literacy
Authors: Honeyghan Glasceta
Published: March 2024

Traces the author’s own literacy development to her girlhood in a village in rural Jamaica. Looks at storytelling, singing, and rhymes in the rhythm of the village; reading from the Bible and stories told at home; rhythms of song and language in church; and the rhythm of poems and stories in school. Looks at implications for literacy instruction.
Following a Child’s Lead toward Literacy
Authors: Merrill Cynthia S.
Published: March 2024

For struggling third-grade reader Maddie, her own writing prompted her journey to become a reader. Her teacher built on Maddie’s strengths and focused on meaningful activities in order to promote a positive attitude toward reading—a focus that became the foundation for her acquisition of reading skills.
Entering and Opening the World of a Poem
Authors: Elster Charles A.
Published: March 2024

Charles Elster highlights strategies that readers employ when they read and respond to poetry.
Maniac Magee and Ragtime Tumpie: Children Negotiating Self and World Through Reading and Writing
Authors: McGinley William , Kamberelis George
Published: March 2024

This article reports results from a year-long study of the specific ways that children’s literacy practices enhanced their understanding of themselves and their social worlds in a classroom where they were encouraged to read, write, and talk about personally and socially relevant subjects. Throughout the school year the researchers documented the nature of classroom activities and the ways that they were taken up by children in their reading and writing practices. In response to various classroom activities and in relation to many out-of-school experiences, children’s reading and writing were found to function for them in a variety of personal and social ways, enabling them to understand the complex urban landscape they inhabited, to explore new roles and social identities, to wrestle with vexing social problems, and to envision ways of reconstructing their lives and their worlds. The strengths and limitations of this particular integration of action research and critical literacy are also discussed.
The Nature and Outcomes of Students’ Longitudinal Participatory Research on Literacy Motivations and Schooling
Authors: Oldfather Penny , Thomas Sally , Eckert Lizz , Garcia Florencia , G Nicki
Published: March 2024

Describes outcomes of a six-year study of students’ participatory research on literacy motivations and schooling. Suggests the need for a fundamental shift of the dominant epistemology in society and schools to one based on trusting, listening to, and respecting the integrity of the minds of all participants in schooling.
Evaluating the Impact of Collectivism and Individualism on Argumentative Writing by Chinese and North American College Students
Authors: Wu Su-Yueh , Rubin Donald L.
Published: March 2024

Analyzes writing features conceptually linked to collectivist or individualist orientations among students from Taiwan and the United States. Notes that theses features were indirectness, personal disclosure, use of proverbs and other canonical expressions, collective self, and assertiveness. Makes comparisons across languages and nationalities and also across language alone.
Stories Out of School1
Authors: Gere Anne Ruggles
Published: March 2024

Stories of how two-year colleges transform lives must be told more widely.
Finding New “Scenes of Learning” in “The Lost Sutra”
Authors: Raymond Richard
Published: March 2024

Internationalizing reading lists for composition and humanities courses engages students in cross-cultural analysis.
Service Learning and First-Year Composition
Authors: Haussamen Brooke
Published: March 2024

Contends that service learning--community service linked to academic courses--adds a valuable experiential dimension to composition classes. Describes service learning at Raritan Valley Community College where in composition it fits as an optional alternative for the research paper assignment that is the culminating course project. Discusses how projects are developed and implemented.