JoLLE October Newsletter
SSO, Take Two, and Call for Submissions/Reviewers!
Call for Proposals for JoLLE's 2018 Winter Conference
The JoLLE conference is a hands-on and participation based conference where presenters involve their audiences in the subject, process, and hope of their presentations. This year’s theme: Reframing Pedagogical Practices and Language and Literacy Research: Teaching to the Future invites teachers and researchers to examine what works well in our classrooms, the changing needs to 21st Century Students, and what literacy classrooms will look like in the future.
The deadline for proposal submissions is coming up on October 25th. For more information, click here.
Scholars Speak Out
The 2016 presidential election has resulted in a very specific set of questions that seems to have consumed my English teacher education students: Should we teach about politics, and if so, how? These are valid questions. I also grapple with these and similar issues as I reflect upon my own practices, as in my case, experience has not made the answers to these questions any more accessible.
A Google search of the term “teaching politics in the classroom” produces more than sixty million hits on the topic, validating concerns about whether and how to teach about politics in these inhumane and anti- intellectual times. A range of headlines offers perspectives and reflections about whether and how to engage the aftermath of the 2016 election and other political events. For a few examples, an article in The Guardian highlights the polarization of the Brexit and Trump results and asks whether teachers should talk about the events at all, ultimately advocating for a “balance[d]” approach with students. A piece posted to the PBS “Teachers’ Lounge” draws connections between Trump’s rhetoric and classroom rules, and highlights questions that encourage students to consider how the president’s rhetoric and conduct contradict notions of acceptable classroom behavior.
To read the rest of this month's Scholars Speak Out article, click here.
Take Two
Introduction by Tairan Qiu, Scholars Speak Out Editor:
In 2008, Dr. Jason Goulah wrote an article titled Transforming world language learning: An approach for environmental and cultural sustainability and economic and political security in response to the Modern Language Association’s report, “Foreign Languages and Higher Education: New Structures for a Changed World” (2007). In that article, he advocated for transformative language teaching and learning to meet the desperate needs of preserving environment and culture sustainability, and economic and political security. We invite JoLLE readers to take a second look at Dr. Goulah's article and to read his discussion on how his opinions have shifted or remained the same over the past nine years. With vast changes in the natural and political environment in our world nowadays, it is even more important for not just language teachers, but every citizen to consider how and where language education stands as it moves into the Anthropocene.
To read Dr. Jason Goulah's second take on his article, click here.
Call for Submissions of Poetry, Fiction, and Visual Arts Fall 2017 & Spring 2018
For the fall issue, fiction submissions (20,000 words or less) are due by Friday, October 6,
2017; poetry and/or visual arts submissions are due by Friday October 13, 2017, at the latest for consideration in our fall issue;
For the spring issue, fiction submissions (20,000 words or less) are due by Friday, February 16, 2018; poetry and/or visual arts submissions are due by Friday, February 23, 2018, at the latest for consideration in our spring issue.
Submissions should be emailed to jolle.art.literature@gmail.com. Please see our website http://jolle.coe.uga.edu/poetry-and-art/ for more information about this portion of the journal.
Call for Reviewers for Fall 2017!
If you are interested in reviewing or would just like more information about the review process, email the Poetry, Fiction, & Visual Arts Editor at jolle.art.literature@gmail.com.
Scholars Speak Out Editor's Note: It's Time for Action
Tairan Qiu, Scholars Speak Out Editor
First and foremost, I would like to extend my gratitude to the loyal readers of JoLLE’s Scholars Speak Out (SSO) feature and our writers who have contributed and will contribute to SSO’s pool of insightful voices.
As students, scholars, and educators in the field of education and social sciences, we most often work with people from various ages, orientations, ethnicities, socioeconomic backgrounds, etc. As a result, we are often more eager to engage in discussions regarding social justice issue openly and passionately. Being surrounded by a community of like-minded people, we sometimes fail to take the sad reality of this diverse world into consideration. The racist and violent event in Charlottesville was a powerful reminder for us all, that we do not live in a colorblind society, and that white supremacy and conflict between various races, still very much exist in every aspect of our lives.
To read the rest of this editor's note, click here.
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