Call for Asia and Youth Culture Manuscripts: EAA Winter 2008

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Education About Asia (EAA) is the peer-reviewed teaching journal of the Association for Asian Studies. Our readers include undergraduate instructors as well as high school and middle school teachers. Our articles are intended to provide educators, who are often not specialists, with basic understanding of Asia-related content. Manuscripts that are submitted for consideration are evaluated by qualified referees.

We are in the process of developing a special section in the winter 2008 issue entitled “Teaching About Asia Through Youth Culture.” In this special section, it is hoped that articles will be published where authors develop manuscripts that will enable teachers and students to better understand how popular culture influences young people in Asia and perceptions of Asia among young people elsewhere. We are seeking manuscripts about all areas of Asia. Although we welcome manuscripts on various aspects of youth culture, we are particularly interested in the ways that digital communications, entertainment, and education are affecting Asian youth, intercultural contact, and globalization. We are most interested in manuscripts that are useful for survey-level courses. Prospective authors should be aware that approximately sixty percent of our readers are secondary or middle school teachers and the rest teach at the undergraduate level.

Please consult the EAA guidelines that are available on the Web site under my signature before submitting a manuscript or media review for this special section. Prospective authors are also encouraged to share possible manuscript ideas with me via email. The deadline for initial receipt of manuscripts and reviews for this special section is August 20, 2008. We also are seeking short teaching resource essays, as well as DVD and book reviews related to the special section. These reviews are normally between 350 and 1,000 words.

Cordially,
Lucien Ellington
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Lucien Ellington
Editor, Education About Asia
302 Pfeiffer Stagmaier Hall
University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
Chattanooga, TN 37403
Phone (423)425-2118, Fax (423)425-5441
email: l-ellington@comcast.net
Web Site: http://www.aasianst.org/