N. J. Loftis's poem, Black Anima, is considered as a problem in aesthetics. (Author/AM)

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Explores story telling and suggests that it is firmly rooted in our past and may well be our children's brightest chance for a future marked by clarity, imagination, and hope. (HOD)

Extends the concept of rhetoric-as-epistemic to intrapersonal communication and suggests a revision in the theoretical criteria. (MH)

This article discusses various philosophies and ways of approaching literature, specifically with regard to the teaching of literature. (Text is in French.) (CLK)

Sketches a key mechanism called "Substitute Vocabularies" whereby practitioners of democracies seek to reconcile contradictions between democratic political principle and repressive political action. Illustrates this by identifying the Richard Nixon administration's political principles regarding Native Americans as articulated in…

Reacts to a new methodology: consensual qualitative research (CQR). Provides an outline of the historical debate on psychological research methods, explains the distinction between discovery-oriented and verification-oriented research, and labels the CQR approach as a discovery-oriented design. Questions the CQR's emphasis on consensus and…

Suggests that experiential educators must be concerned about the intersection of human and environmental factors, and that ecofeminism provides a framework for examining this intersection. Defines ecofeminism and discusses its benefits and shortcomings as a foundation for social, educational, and environmental philosophy and practice. Contains 16…

Uses feminist post-structuralist interpretations of a story about an Australian early childhood teacher to explore why "seeing gender" has proved to be so difficult in early childhood education and why feminist reconstructions of the pedagogic gaze are central to addressing the marginalization of gender issues in the early childhood…

Examines one secondary school's literature curriculum and provides a description of the range of mother figures to be found in young adult literature. Suggests some possible reasons for the scarcity of positive mother figures, and calls for change. (TB)

Examines the interconnected careers of four women of New England origin, Caroline Hewins, Anne Carroll Moore, Alice Jordan, and Bertha Mahony, for their individual accomplishments and their collective influence in developing the fields of library service to children and children's literature. Topics include literary criticism, writing, leadership…

Presents a 90-item annotated bibliography that supplements Teresa McKenna's bibliographic essay "Immigrants in Our Own Land: A Chicano Literature Review and Pedagogical Assessment" (published in this journal in 1988). Includes sections on anthologies, prose fiction, poetry, drama, nonfiction, criticism, and journals. (RS)

Presents a 108-item annotated bibliography of works by Puerto Ricans born and raised in the United States to complement and update Edna Acosta-Belen's "The Literature of Puerto Rican Migration in the United States: An Annotated Bibliography." Includes sections on anthologies, prose fiction, poetry, drama, autobiographies, criticism, and…

Presents a postmodernist critical analysis of the second language acquisition (SLA) theory-building literature as primarily represented in the writings of Beretta, Crookes, Eubank, Gregg, Long, and Schumann. Argues that there is no foundational reason to grant privileged status to the modernist view of SLA espoused by these scholars. (67…