I received in the mail today a paper by a teacher in MA., U.S.A. I've
quicklyread through it and found it to be a very interesting paper, giving an
account of how a writing workshop teacher went through the journey of
helping children to create an inclusive writing culture where texts are not
used as weapons in power games, but as ways to building an inclusive
community, and ways to human connectedness. It has a strong flavour of
Karen Gallas' account of
Sarah's (an African-American child in her class) starting up of a
story-telling/making culture, in her "Sharing Time: When Children Take the
Chair" (In her book, The Languages of Learning. 1994, Teachers College
Press).
In the teacher-reseracher's letter to me, he wrote,
"I have yet to find an audience for my paper. Any feedback you can give
me on where and how I might get this paper published would also be
greatly appreciated."
Gee, I don't know why he thinks I would know... I myself is a graduate
student not yet fully apprenticed into this academic business of getting
papers published; but I do feel that you may be able to help! I'm not
sure if he has access to e-mail; but all your responses I'll forward to
him by snail mail...
Unfortunately I only have a hard copy of his paper, and I don't have a
scanner such that I can scan it into a text file to forward it to xmca so
that you would have a chance to read it...
Anyway, I would really appreciate your response: i.e., what are some of
the channels through which a teacher-researcher's paper can get published...
Thanks!
Angel
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Angel M.Y. Lin
Doctoral Candidate
Modern Language Centre
Ontario Institute for Studies in Education
252 Bloor St. W., Toronto, ON M5S 1V6, Canada
E-Mail: MYLIN who-is-at OISE.ON.CA
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