Yes, of course, Peter's right about his point... there's no such a
concrete thing called "academic journal"; but I guess we all have certain
conceptions of what "academic journal" means when we use this phrase...
it may be more useful to think of different journals lying on a continuum
of providing relatively more or less access to teacher-researchers....
Angel
On Tue, 3 Oct 1995 SMAGOR who-is-at aardvark.ucs.uoknor.edu wrote:
> I think it all depends on what we mean by "academic journal."
> There are lots of journals out there. On Gordon's list (thanks!)
> I noticed journals such as Primary Voices, a journal from
> the National Council of Teachers of English, that is mainly
> intended to reach classroom teachers. The journal goes
> through an external review process and publishes themed issues
> only. I'd say the language is more accessible (oops! almost
> said "softer"--meaning less technical) yet the content is
> something I'd call empirically based. So just what is an
> "academic journal"???
>
> Peter SMagorinsky smagor who-is-at aardvark.ucs.uoknor.edu
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