Call for Contributors to a special issue of Education Sciences (online journal)
Special issue to address ‘Educating Informal Educators’
Brief for potential contributors:
'Educating Informal Educators' will draw on the range of expertise in Higher Education courses across the UK and seeks to emphasise the value of informal education, its values and practices not only for students of education or informal education, but for society as a whole. This special issue will focus on how informal education pedagogies, practices and principles are engaged with, modelled, taught or shared in Higher Education. This issue seeks to capture the particular pedagogies of youth and community work courses that sustain distinctive informal education practice. Contributions will be invited covering (and not limited to) the following themes:
Critical pedagogy
Group work/self-directed learning
Digital Youth work
Anti-oppressive practice
Collaboration / co-production of knowledge
Placements / experiential learning
Residentials / Accompaniment
Detached youth work
Impact & measurement
Creativity / improvisation
Building relationships / relational learning
Cultural difference, gender, race, class
Social pedagogy
The guest editors are looking to bring together for the first time a series of articles that celebrate the distinctive contribution of youth & community work pedagogues to the development of informal education pedagogies. With a social justice orientation, this special issue is intended to reach beyond that of young and community work courses and extend towards engaging students in valuable perspectives and pedagogies for wider society.
Prof. Dr. Pam Alldred and Dr. Frances Howard
Guest Editors (Nottingham Trent University)
An expression of interest / abstract is required by 11th September 2020
EOI’s and abstracts should be submitted to: Frances.Howard@ntu.ac.uk
Invitation for Association Member Collaboration:
As presented at our Annual Day Conference, one of our strategic objectives as an Association is to support engagement in publishing original research from across our membership, especially from those who have something to say but might have less experience and confidence in preparing for a submission. For this reason the Association is offering to support members in preparing their idea and expression of interest for this call who have limited prior experience writing research publications; and to coordinate submissions from members to promote pairs or small groups to work together on joint articles.
If you wish to be part of this collaborative approach, please submit your article title and the expression of interest or abstract to hello@tagpalycw.org before the 24th August, (note you will have until June 2021 to complete the article in full) and indicate whether you would like us to either: 1. Connect you to other authors from within the Association working on a similar theme, if possible; or, 2. Enable a discussion of your proposed article with our writing workshop convenors prior to submission.
Members are, of course, very welcome to submit independently and directly to the editors as per the details included above.
Note: The editors will be giving a list of contributors to the journal in order that the article processing charge is waived (whether people decide to go ahead with the article or not).
The deadline for full and final drafts of articles is 1st June 2021 for peer review
Online publication is planned for Summer 2021.