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  • Call for Proposals for Special Issues

    2025-08-12

    The Journal of Contemporary Issues in Education (JCIE) is accepting proposals for special issues. 

    Special issues typically contain seven to nine original articles, as well as an editorial introduction by the guest editors. All articles published in the selected special issues will go through a double-anonymized peer review process run by the guest editors prior to also being reviewed once through JCIE. Special issues should have the potential to inform and invigorate future research on issues of broad importance to the field.

    Proposals for special issues should be a maximum of 5,000 words, and should include:

    • A title for the proposed special issue
    • An explanation of the questions the special issue will address, and the nature and importance of the expected contribution
    • Brief biographies for each guest editor (max 200 words each)
    • Details on proposed timelines, and activities related to the proposal (e.g. if the papers have been discussed at a workshop or other forum, to encourage connections and coherence across the special issue)

    Proposals must be submitted to bathseba.opini@ubc.ca and carrie_karsgaard@cbu.ca and by 31 September 2025.

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  • Call for Papers: Human Rights at 75: Human Rights, Education, and a Culture of Repair, Regeneration, and Counter-Colonial Relations

    2024-05-01

    In December, 2023 75th anniversary celebrations of the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights were held in many parts of the world. However, with worsening economic, climate, and migration crises, along with longstanding displacement caused by wars, and increased distrust of globalization and international relations, what is being celebrated? JCIE invites submissions related to human rights including theoretical, empirical, and case studies that address the importance of UNDHR, its relevance in addressing the key issues of our time and the implications for education including in human rights education, adult education, higher education, community education and basic education. Within this framing, submissions could explore a wide range of rights-based topics including the rights of children, migrants and refugees, and non-human life. 

    • How, within today’s geopolitical, socio-cultural and environmental conflict points, might human rights law, discourse, and practice reproduce or challenge relations of power and lead to ameliorating harms ?
    • Does the implementation of the principles, laws, and standards of the UNDHR contribute to efforts for equity, diversity, inclusion, and justice within and across states and their institutions? 
    • How do movements to support the rights of nature provide expanding avenues to embed protective rights-based relations into local contexts?
    • What are the impacts of the Convention of the Rights of the Child with particular attention to the rise of authoritarianism and a resurgent treatment of children as property of their parents?
    • How do rights claims of entitlements and freedoms exist in current contexts of neoliberal governance, unregulated internet information including disinformation, rising authoritarianism, and the resurgence of supremacy movements?

    Submissions should be made by Feb. 1, 2025 at https://journals.library.ualberta.ca/jcie/index.php/JCIE . 

    For additional information, please contact Lynette Shultz Lshultz@ualberta.ca 

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