Designed to assist school teachers as well as college and university faculty in teaching about Asia, EAA has a circulation of approximately 10,000. A grant from the United States-Japan Foundation will enable us to increase circulation for this particular issue to 30,000. The theme of the Spring 2001 issue of EAA will be teaching Asian literatures. Professor Joan Ericson of Colorado College will serve as guest editor. Manuscripts are invited on the method and practice of teaching Asian literatures from a single literary tradition or cross cultural survey, both in traditional and inter-disciplinary settings.
All manuscripts are peer-reviewed.
Contributors to the Asian Literatures issue should submit one hard copy of the manuscript to Professor Ericson by September 25. Five hard copies of the manuscript should also be submitted by the same date to Robin Kervin at the EAA editorial offices. Authors who would like to discuss a prospective manuscript should contact Professor Ericson. The School of Education at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill offers Master of Arts in Teaching degree for K-12 Japanese initial teacher licensure. Both experienced LCTL teachers as well as novice teachers and those who have not had the opportunity to undergo formal teacher training and would like to engage in a regular pedagogical exchange with an experienced teacher of their LCTL are encouraged to participate in this pilot project In this pilot program, the mentee, a novice teacher, is paired up with a seasoned mentor teacher who advises the mentee on pedagogical and linguistic questions, provides information on materials availability and their pedagogical merit, on curriculum design, testing strategies, etc.