For me, this movie is a small masterpiece, which shows how film and literature can work together, and how more powerful ideas about ourselves are then the circumstances we are put into. Exactly that scene is not shown - it's the hole in the middle, through which the old reality passes into the new. And there the story takes over the initiative from the writer, who himself is thrown into it - in the middle, where he leaves his home and runs into his 'accident'. They surely resist this, especially Lorenzo but also he has to put himself at risk, following the demands of his 'blood', that is, of his sex, death and rebirth. Both have to get into a new reality which can transform their personalities to both, this means a form of dying and leaving their old personalities behind. Lorenzo, Lucia and their relationship are too heavily shaken up. From then on, the decisions made by the novelist - like the shivery death of his child - are such that there is no way back. The question I asked myself after watching the movie for the third time was: where exactly is this 'middle' of it? It seems to me that it's around the scene where Elena is walking through Madrid with Luna in her baby carriage, while passing the apartment of Lucia and Lorenzo. It's for us to see, to accept, and to decide: do we want to go to our island and unite the two, as Lucia does? In that case, we might see that in the end our stories come true as well, be it by breaking in in the middle. At the same time, it is also a power deep down, a dark shadow that haunts us. The sexual scenery functions not only as entrance to the story I think Medem really wanted to depict something like 'the ultimate sex' both as experience and as ultimate, divine ideal, something like Goethes 'eternal feminine.' As something to strive for, it can deeply affect our lives by giving it the splendour we need to keep it worthwhile, even if we fail. AERA Open publishes studies of education and learning in various contexts, such as early childhood, after-school, primary and secondary, and post-secondary education.This movie in my view is not understandable without any notion of the 'soul', whose movements are made visible by magnificent underwater shots. With an emphasis on rapid review and dissemination, AERA Open aims to advance knowledge related to education and learning through rigorous empirical and theoretical study, conducted in a wide range of academic disciplines. “I know that they will continue to bring the same level of innovation and boundary-crossing that they have showed since the journal launched in 2014.”ĪERA Open is a peer-reviewed, open-access journal published by the American Educational Research Association. “I could not be more pleased that this team of highly distinguished scholars will continue for an additional three years,” said AERA Executive Director Felice J.
Since the journal’s launch, the editors have released open calls for ten special topics covering a diverse range of issues.
Similar to special issues, the goal of the special topics is to solicit and publish high quality education research on important interdisciplinary themes. One of the innovative features created by the editors is the special topic collection. The journal currently receives the third-highest number of manuscript submissions among AERA’s journals (after AERJ and ER). Among AERA’s journals, articles in AERA Open have received the highest number of downloads as well as the highest Altmetric scores. Under the leadership of the inaugural team of Warschauer, Duncan, and Eccles, AERA Open has flourished since its launch in 2014. The extension was appointed in November by 2017–2018 AERA President Deborah Ball upon the recommendation of the AERA Journal Publications Committee. Jacquelynne Eccles will complete her term as co-editor on June 30, 2018. Hill, Charles Bigelow Professor of Education at Harvard University. Joining Warschauer and Duncan will be Nancy E. The extended term will begin on Jand will include current editor-in-chief Mark Warschauer and co-editor Greg Duncan. AERA is pleased to announce that the co-editor team for AERA Open will be extended for three additional years through 2021.