[EDLING:1198] Language Arts - Call for Papers

[Cynthia Groff]

Language Arts



A Journal of the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE)





LANGUAGE ARTS announces a new editorial team based at The Ohio State
University. The team is composed of Patricia Enciso, Laurie Katz, Barbara
Kiefer, Detra Price-Dennis, and Melissa Wilson with Caitlin Ryan as the
editorial assistant.



The Ohio State University                        614-292-7559
langarts at osu.edu

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Language Arts is currently soliciting manuscripts for the following themes
in PreK-8th grade literacy and language arts education:



Feature Call: Continuous Submissions

In each issue of Language Arts we will feature a final page called
"Rethinking...".   This is a one-page format (750 word maximum) that could
take the form of a poem, essay, conversation, journal entry, short story or
visual art with caption.   The focus is on the voices of educators who may
be new or very experienced, but who have recognized a
shift in perspective, perception or practice.   We hope that readers will
look forward to this feature because it prompts them to remember and
rethink.



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Inquiries and Insights

Submissions deadline: March 15, 2006.  Publication: July 2007.

In this unthemed issue, we feature your current questions and
transformations as educators, community members, students, and researchers.
Many directions are possible in this issue. What tensions do you see in
literacy education today? What do readers of Language Arts need to notice
and think about? What inquiry work have you done that can stretch the field
of literacy and language arts? Describe your process of learning about
literature, literacy, culture, social justice, and language. What new
literacy practices do you see in communities, after school programs, and
classrooms? What supports these practices?  What is getting in the way of
change? What connections are adults and children making as they engage in
the art of language? Join us in creating a collection of inquiries and
insights.





Expanding Spaces of Learning

Submissions deadline: May 15, 2006.  Publication: September 2007.

How can schools/teachers and communities create contexts of learning so that
all students will have spaces to learn? When teachers and other adults
expand spaces of learning, it's not just that children work in a different
setting, but that the tools of learning are different and students get to
engage with them in different ways.  For example, how are books used in
these spaces?  How are talk and writing affected?  What new texts are
produced?  For whom and for what purposes?  Who can students become in those
spaces?  Are they more visible, more engaged in learning? How do teachers
and students relate to one another in new ways?  How do we advocate for such
spaces?





The Power of Words

Submissions deadline: July 15, 2006.  Publication: November 2007.

Family members, pre-service teachers, educators and researchers care deeply
about education but we often talk past one another because we are not sure
what we mean.   What does literacy mean?  Reading the world?  Language arts?
Critical? Equity? Scaffold? Assessment?  In addition, our students have
their own ways with words.  What do words about reading, writing, and
talking mean to them?  We also recognize that many times young people and
adult educators do understand one another and are able to form coalitions of
action because of our shared sense of purpose.   What words are central to
changing practices and forging new ideas and actions?  In this issue we seek
manuscripts that address the ways words gain power and shape learning among
people in particular contexts inside and outside school settings.





Challenges to Children's Literature

Submissions deadline: September 15, 2006.  Publication: January 2008.

Federal, state, and local curriculum policies, censorship challenges, lack
of monetary support for teachers and libraries are just a few of the
challenges facing those of us who value literature for children.  How have
these and other challenges manifested themselves in the lives of teachers,
media specialists and others who value good literature for children? What
are some of the ways our readers have faced difficult issues?  What
struggles and successes have they experienced? We invite submissions that
address these and other questions and issues facing those who work in the
field of children's literature.





Writing and Community/ies

Submissions deadline: November 15, 2006.  Publication: March 2008.

Writing workshops have long been implemented in classrooms to make the
writing process more explicit to students.  In this issue, we are interested
in exploring another facet of this practice: the role of community for
writers.  We invite authors to conceptualize community groups that converge
across time and space, whether they are neighborhoods, ethnic groups,
religious groups, social action groups, professional/academic groups,
families, etc.  We seek descriptions of what these communities do for their
participants as well as what these communities do to/for the writings they
produce.  What are the reciprocal relationships between writers and
communities?  Do these communities suggest changes in traditional classroom
practice, teacher preparation, and professional development?



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To submit a manuscript, please send six hard copies and an electronic copy
on disk or cd to the following address:     Language Arts Editorial Team

333 Arps Hall

1945 N. High St.

Columbus OH 43210



Thank you for your interest in Language Arts!




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> Laurie Katz, Ed.D.
> The Ohio State University
> School of Teaching & Learning, 333 Arps Hall
> 1945 N. High St. Columbus, OH 43210
> 614-292-2111
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