JPHE experienced some technical difficulties with the submissions email (submissions@jphe.org) in April. If you submitted a manuscript between April 16th and 30th and did not receive a confirmation email from the Assistant Editor, please resend your manuscript directly to Melina Aarnikoivu (melina.aarnikoivu@jyu.fi). Apologies for any inconvenience this may have caused.
The Editorial Team.
See the downloadable Call for Papers (CfP) for JPHE’s first special issue, planned for publication in 2021. Guest Editors: Mélodine Sommier, Anssi Roiha, and Malgorzata Lahti. Submission details provided in the CfP.
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and the difficulties this has created worldwide, the submission date for manuscripts for Issue 1, 2020, has been extended to May 1.
We have all no doubt been affected by recent pandemic challenges, such as borders closing, schools shutting down, market related-fears growing amidst increased economic instability, and elderly people becoming isolated, not to mention the virus itself. Our hearts need to be open to those in need, and they are obviously our first priority. As a counterweight to a spreading virus, fears, and general unease, however, our shared intellectual capital, creativity, and collaboration can spread as quickly and with positive effect. So, if you and your collaborators are fortunate enough to find yourself with a bit of extra time and energy, why not make a virtue out of necessity: counter the present demanding situation and immobility with intellectual mobility and send us a manuscript!
The Journal of Praxis in Higher Education (JPHE) is now calling for papers for its first issue for 2020. Submissions due April 15, 2020. EXTENDED TO MAY 1!
JPHE is a journal dedicated to high quality research on, or related to, praxis within higher education teaching, learning, research, and activities aimed at impact on wider society (e.g., policy influence, activist research, or capacity building). Our very first issue (Vol. 1, Issue 1, 2019) is available here: http://jphe.org/current-issue/ .
Praxis in higher education should be broadly interpreted. In an era characterised by internationalisation, increasing accountability, strong ties between universities and national and regional economies, and imperatives concerning sustainable development, university communities are under great pressure to meet ever-increasing and often competing demands. The moral-political dimension of higher education and attention to universities’ civic responsibilities are arguably sometimes forgotten in the daily struggle to meet such demands. This journal has been established with this concern in mind, and seeks to promote continued debate and exploration of some of the key responsibilities of, and tensions pervading, higher education (see the JPHE’s editorial, Vol 1, Issue, 1) with a view to informing attempts to transform it in socially just and sustainable ways.
JPHE is fully peer-reviewed, applying a triple blind review system in order to ensure the integrity of the review process. As a web-only journal committed to the widest possible dissemination of research, JPHE is fully open access and does not demand any charges of its authors. Accepted contributions are published under Creative Commons licensing (Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Public License; please visit the Creative Commons website for complete terms (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/legalcode).
JPHE welcomes contributions from all academic traditions, and is not confined to any particular theoretical stance or any specific methodology. A submitted paper must, however, present novel and interesting research, and do so in a clear and concise manner.
Topics to guide submissions include, but are not limited to
A submitted paper must be anonymised and sent in a separate file (named “[title of the paper]”). Author information and abstract (200 words maximum) should be submitted in a separate file (named “author information”). Both files should be submitted as .doc or .docx files. The paper should be between 6 000 and 8 000 words long; if shorter or longer, an explicit justification is required for the paper to be considered.
To be considered for inclusion in JPHE’s first 2020 issue, manuscripts need to be submitted by April 15. Submit your manuscripts via email to submissions@jphe.org. Submitted manuscripts are assigned to one of the journal editors, who will recruit reviewers with relevant expertise. Normally, the review process will be completed within three months from submission.
Please direct inquiries to Professor Petra Angervall at editor-in-chief@jphe.org.
As members of the Editorial Team, and on behalf of our Editorial Board, we are very happy to present the first issue of Journal of Praxis in Higher Education. The issue consists of four well-written and highly relevant articles, that are excellent contributions to the area. The articles are available for download under “Current Issue”, along with the Editorial of the first issue.
Content:
Editorial
Another higher education journal—Really? (pp. 1-9)
– Melina Aarnikoivu, Kathleen Mahon, Marcus Agnafors, David M. Hoffman, and Petra Angervall
Research articles
A conceptual enquiry into communities of practice as praxis in international doctoral education (pp. 11-36)
– Liexu Cai, Dangeni, Dely L. Elliot, Rui He, Jianshu Liu, Kara A. Makara, Emily-Marie Pacheco, Hsin-Yi Shih, Wenting Wang, and Jie Zhang
Organising the ‘industrialisation of instruction’: Pedagogical discourses in the Swedish Primary Teacher Education programme (pp. 37-59)
– Lena Sjöberg
The work of university research administrators: Praxis and professionalization (pp. 61-85)
– Sandra Acker, Michelle K. McGinn, and Caitlin Campisi
Teacher educators’ perceptions of their profession in relation to the digitalization of society
(pp. 87-110)
– Anna Roumbanis Viberg, Karin Forslund Frykedal, and Sylvana Sofkova Hashemi
