Educational Review is an international journal based in the School of Education, the University of Birmingham, UK.
OriginsEducational Review is a source of contemporary research about current issues in many aspects of education. Papers concern education in its widest sense – teaching and learning in all aspects of schooling. Increasingly, the journal is reflecting research in aspects of education and learning beyond school, such as inter-professional learning and informal learning. The journal’s editors welcome articles from colleagues who are involved in these endeavours, in the UK and internationally, as established scholars as well as those entering the academic community.
Deirdre Martin
Executive Editor
The first issue of Educational Review was published in 1948, with a Foreword by the then Vice Chancellor of the University, R.E. Priestley. In 1998 the journal’s history of over fifty years of unbroken publication was celebrated in the journal’s special issue about Literacy and Schooling, edited by Professor Barry Wade, who was editor for over twenty five years.
Educational Review is a leading journal for generic educational research and scholarship. For over sixty years it has offered authoritative reviews of current national and international issues in schooling and education. It publishes peer-reviewed papers from international contributors which report research across a range of education fields including curriculum, inclusive and special education, educational psychology, policy, management and international and comparative education. The editors welcome informed papers from new and established scholars which encourage and enhance academic debate. The journal offers two editions a year which publish non-commissioned papers and two further issues which deal with current topics in-depth. A regular feature of the journal is state-of-the-art reviews on issues across the educational spectrum. An extensive range of recently published books is reviewed. Readership is aimed at educationists, researchers and policy makers.
"Educational Review offers truly international research on educational and schooling issues of broad interest. The varying educational contexts represented offer new insight and bring fresh perspectives.”
Deborah Berrill
Trent University, Ontario, Canada“Not only is Educational Review one of the oldest and most highly respected British educational journals, it is also one of the most internationally recognised. Publishing in Educational Review assures an international readership of one’s research articles.”
Kevin Wheldall
Macquarie University, Australia“Educational Review includes new research on a wide range of education policies and issues. Its collection of evidence and arguments offers both a broad and distinctive perspective on topics of interest to educational theorists and practitioners alike.”
Clive Belfield
Columbia University, USA“Among the striking characteristics of the Educational Review are the breadth and depth of its articles. The journal attracts submissions from the full spectrum of the field, and in the process significantly advances conceptual boundaries. And every issues contains an excellent Book Reviews section.”
Mark Bray
University of Hong Kong
We invite fellow researchers to contribute papers to the two general issues published in February and August every year. All papers are peer-reviewed by at least two referees.
School of Education Online Bibliographic Database; To access the full text of the journal articles back to Volume 1, Issue 1 1948, please go to: Informaworld.
Papers in special issues (usually published in May and November each year) focus on a specific theme and are edited by international scholars. The board invites proposals for special editions as well as commissioning them.
An important feature of the special issue is the introductory discussant paper. This paper serves many purposes, and is particularly helpful for the student new to the field. It is eloquently described here by one of the referees:
“It is essentially the introduction to the entire special issue, taking care to situate the articles and the arguments within a larger field of politicised discourse. This is a marvellous idea, because it makes what might otherwise have been a set of disparate papers into a coherent whole. Typically, academic journals suffer from incoherence – as they must since the field they represent are so large that articles are all over the field. But even special issues suffer as well, as they may be thematic, but even those themes are often so vast that articles come from everywhere. But this essay serves the very useful purpose of making it appear that all the articles cohere, and the issue will be a unified whole. It’s very useful, and I have no doubts that it will solidify the issue”.
Michael Kimmel
Dept of Sociology, State University of New York, USA
Educational Review is published by Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group.
Editorial Information; including Editors and International Advisory Board.
Instructions for Authors: a guide to submitting articles to Educational Review
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Please contact the Editorial Assistant: Saira Bejai
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The School of Education, University of Birmingham,
Edgbaston, Birmingham, B15 2TT
U.K.
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