Journal for the Assembly for Expanded Perspectives on Learning
Volume Three

Journal of the Assembly for Expanded Perspectives on Learning, Volume 3 , Winter 1997-1998

Table of Contents

Editor's Message

Essays

Regina Foehr. "A Tribute to James Moffet."

Miles Myers. "Remembering James Moffett."
Donald R. Gallehr. "Reading Jim Moffett."
Richard L. Graves. "Jim, We Hardly Knew You."
Regina Foehr. "Memories of James Moffett."
Sheridan Blau. "A Reflection and Memoir."
Betty Jane Wagner. "Outliving Jim Moffett."

C. Jan Swearingen. "Doubting and Believing: The Hermeneutics of Suspicion in Contexts of Faith."
A belief-centered pedagogy helps students infuse cultural values into adversarial modes of academic writing.

Terri Pullen. "Active Reciprocity: The Positive, Mindful Flow of Mental Energy."
The construct of mindfulness relates to Eastern meditative practices, consciousness, quantum physics, and creativity.

Janet M. Ellerby. "Julia Kristeva and the Psychological Dynamics of Writing."
By tapping into latent emotional dynamics, Kristeva's poststructuralist psychology offers a means to modify the cognitive order emphasized in academic discourse.

Kristie S. Fleckenstein. "The Osmotic Self and Language Arts Pedagogy."
Educators should evolve a pedagogy that privileges a participatory self, in which ego boundaries are permeable.

Thomas Dean. "The Pedagogy of Place."
The impending collapse of our civil society and natural environment necessitates a revised perspective on community.

Paul Lewis. "How Many Students Does it Take to Write a Joke? Humor Writing in Composition Courses."
While calling attention to rhetorical principles and practices, humor writing can energize composition courses.

Gina Brief-Elgins. "Happiness and the Blank Page: Csikszentmihalyi's Flow in the Writing Classroom."
Redefining happiness to include encounters with difficulty helps students embrace rather than dread arduous writing tasks.

Reviews

Carolyn E. Hill. Token Professionals and Master Critics: A Critique of Orthodoxy in Literary Studies. (James Sosnoski, 1994).

Michael Kuhne. Releasing the Imagination: Essays on Education, the Arts, and Social Change. (Maxine Greene, 1995).

Felicia M. Briscoe. Artwork of the Mind: An Interdisciplinary Description of Insight and the Search for it in Student Writing. (Mary M. Murray, 1996).

Hanna Berger. If You Want to Write: A Book about Art, Independence and Spirit. (Brenda Ueland, 1997).

Candace Walworth. The Rag and Bone Shop of the Heart: Poems for Men. (Robert Bly, James Hillman, Michael Meade, Eds., 1992).