Call for Manuscripts

You are invited to submit manuscripts to the award-winning Oregon English Journal* for its Spring 2010 issue.

"Education and Hope: Teaching in Hard Times"

In just the last few years, we have had to sustain our enthusiasm and focus in our classrooms through some of the most difficult and consequential times in American history: the 9/11 attacks, two wars, disputatious elections, and now the most trying economic events since the Great Depression. Sometimes we might feel, as Wordsworth put it, that "the world is too much with us."

But we cannot keep that howling world outside of our classrooms. How have you dealt with the big events that we and our students have had to face? What is the relevance and importance of the English/language arts classroom in the teeth of the world's storms? How have you helped your students cope with all the difficult changes many of them and their families have faced? What teaching strategies have you employed to give them greater understandings? What literature has offered consolation or perspective? What insights have you tried to offer into the language of modern politics?

We are looking for your ideas and accounts of ways you have supported your students in finding the hope and the skills necessary to endure during difficult times.

Manuscript deadline:  February 1, 2010.

We suggest submissions of 1500-2000 words. Submit both an electronic copy in Word Doc format to the e-mail below, and two hard copies (with no author identification on them) double-spaced and titled to the address below. Please use a cover sheet for your name, address, e-mail, and a brief biographical sketch (2-3 sentences).

Send to:
Ulrich H. Hardt, Editor
Portland State University--GSE
PO Box 751
Portland, Oregon 97207-0751
hardtu @ pdx.edu

*Since 1988, 22 issues of the OEJ have been selected by NCTE for national promotion and distribution.

More information on the OEJ here.