re-formatting the journal

[Peter Howie]

Hi Adam and colleagues,

The ANZPA journal was developed in its initial form by one of our  
members, Chris Hosking, who thought its time had come. She developed  
her ideas and gained approval from our association Exec for a budget  
and got to work. We are onto our 18th year of this and the next one  
will be the 19th edition. We have had a number of editors and we have  
not had it refereed apart from work done by or through the editor.  
Currently the Editor has a number of people she can call on to sub- 
edit or assist prospective writers to firm up their work. It is quite  
a lot of work for one person but at the same time it has a degree of  
ease and alacrity with one person calling the shots. The various  
editors have been chosen and warmed up to the job by the previous  
editors and approved off by the Exec. We have had a two  
psychodramatist s and two sociodramatists as our editors over this  
time. It costs around 8 thousand dollars to layout, print and post and  
other sundry expenses. We pay a small honorarium to the editor each  
year as well which is not included as a budget cost. The editor choses  
the art work and most often ties it into the conference art work if  
not the conference theme. They are all rather delightful works of art.  
The art work is budgeted for.

The current journal is available on our web site at: https://store2.esellerate.net/store/checkout/CustomLayout.aspx?s=STR4742569465&pc=&page=MultiCatalog.htm
If you look at the other journals you can also see art work. You will  
also note that the whole series of journals is available for $100 US -  
bargain.

Adam, why don't you offer yourself as the editor and get a few hardy  
souls to help or join you. There are at least 4 editors here who would  
be happy to support you I am sure. One editor told me it was all about  
delegating. If the articles are edited rather than refereed then you  
might well get a greater range of offers. The editing process is more  
for readability and the whole thing making sense than proving that the  
philosophical underpinnings of one idea are valid. Mostly contributors  
write about areas of interest, concern or research they are doing. Our  
Board has also printed some of their papers that others are required  
to write for TEP for instance. I've written a number of articles over  
the years on areas I think are worthwhile for my colleague to know  
about - I wrote about the Ladder of Inference from a psychodramatist's  
point of view, I wrote about the application of sociodrama in a remote  
indigenous community, I wrote last year about the idea that everything  
we are doing is sociodrama and that psychodrama is really a way of  
specialising or a special case. I certainly am operating in various  
teacher roles - mostly I believe in a way like an experimental  
collegial scholar.

That would be a fresh start.

Cheers

Peter




Peter Howie B.Sc, TEP
Managing Director
The Moreno Collegium for Human Centred Learning, Research and  
Development
0411 873 851
www.morenocollegium.com.au




On 02/07/2009, at 5:12 AM, Adam Blatner wrote:

> Dear Anath, agreeingw with you about Dale's valuable contribution on  
> grouptalk, I'm turning more to this line: You said, "why not rethink  
> the format of ASGPP
>
> Journal to solicit these kind of contributions?
>
> AB  Now may be a time for folks to make contact with the committee  
> working on trying to build up the journal, find a publisher, new  
> editors, and an adequate number of people who will write papers. At  
> present all this is tenuous, as regrettable as it might seem. ASGPP  
> needs to build back a degree of morale associated also with a  
> willingness to extend oneself beyond one's own self-interest, to  
> invest in thinking about and writing out what you think. Even if the  
> editors (who have yet to appear) were to agree fully, be completely  
> receptive, there is the need for folks be ready to think about their  
> work, express what they do. Use colleagues who are more comfortable  
> with writing to serve as co-authors.
>      I've been trying to encourage this in the field for two decades  
> and it's been most difficult. Perhaps we can make a fresh start.  
> Warmly, Adam
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