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January/February Focus: Adult Education & Distance Learning
Welcome to the Education Arena, where we are focusing on the theme of Adult Education & Distance Learning. We have an extensive selection of content to kick-start your new year, featuring all the latest news & offers from across the Routledge Education journal portfolio. Highlights include an Adult Education & Distance Learning article collection, a special announcement about the American Journal of Distance Education, and a fresh selection of Hot Topic Articles.
Happy New Year from the Education Arena!
Lorna Unwin, Editor of the Journal of Vocational Education & Training talks about the strengths of the journal, some of the contentious issues that have been discussed in the journal, and as incoming Editor, her aspirations for the future of the journal.
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Adult Education & Distance Learning Article Collection
In celebration of this month's theme on the Education Arena, we have collated a special article collection exploring distance learning within adult education.
We are delighted to bring you this selection of recent Special Issues from across the Routledge Education journal portfolio:
Open Learning: The Journal of Open, Distance and e-Learning
Special Issue: Distance and E-Learning in Science and Related Subjects
Journal of Education and Work
Special Issue: Globalisation, Higher Education, the Labour Market and Inequality
International Journal of Lifelong Education
Special Issue: Learning to live together in diverse cities: educational and socio-geographical perspectives
The American Journal of Distance Education is the internationally recognized journal of research and scholarship in the field of American distance education.
Now available online! Four issues featuring translations of articles from French , together with special articles prepared for inclusion in the French journal, Distance et Savoirs.
Article: Audiences and Providers of Distance Education, as published in Distances et Savoirs (D&S—7/2009. À la croisée des recherches, pages 669 to 683) by R. Roudi Nazarinia Roy & Walter R. Schumm
And many more! Visit the journal's website to access all the articles from the past year's special anniversary issues.
Now included in the Social Science Citation Index.
Teachers & Teaching: Theory and Practice has been selected for inclusion in the Thomson Reuters Social Science Citation Index, and will receive its first Impact Factor later this year.
A new research program will look at modeling and measuring academic competencies as well as their preconditions and effects. Funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) and led by the universities of Berlin and Mainz, ‘Modeling and measuring competencies in higher education (KoKoHs)’ aims to tackle in a valid and reliable way a subject that sets a high threshold for research methodology –especially in European higher education. Running from the end of 2011 until 2015, the program will strive to create a systematic framework for connecting different individual projects in several domains of higher education, for example engineering, teacher education in STEM subjects, psychology, sociology and economy.
Distance Education Special Issue Offer
Enjoy 30 days free access to a Special Issue of Distance Education, focusing on 'Distance Education for Empowerment and Development in Africa'. This special issue includes a diverse set of contributions, each offering valuable insights into distance education and technology practice in African education.
Editor News - Derek Cherrington
After overseeing 37 volumes, Professor Derek Cherrington (formerly University of Gloucestershire, UK) retired as Editor of Educational Studies in November.
The journal began its life under Carfax Publishing in the 1970s, and has transcended a few changes of Publisher and/or imprint since then.
The journal now assumes a 2010 Impact Factor of 0.721, ranking it at 85/184 in the Education & Educational Research section of the Social Sciences Citation Index.
Everyone at Routledge/Taylor and Francis wishes Derek a happy and well-earned retirement. He is pictured here with his wife Elspeth on holiday in South Asia.
Derek is succeeded as Editor in Chief by Dr Kevin Downing, of City University, Hong Kong. Kevin has been a long standing member of the Executive Editorial Board.
The journal will be adopting the online submission and peer-review system ScholarOne Manuscripts in 2012.
Researchers’ Favourites - Higher Education’s Most Cited Articles
Routledge is proud to showcase this collection of Top Cited Articles from across the Higher Education journal programme, featuring articles which made an impact in the 2010 Journal Citation Rankings (JCR)*. We hope these articles are interesting and useful for your research!
If you are attending the forthcoming SRHE Conference collect your exclusive ‘Researchers’ Favourites’ leaflet from the stand to obtain 7 days free access!
* Data taken from Thomson Reuters (ISI) Web of Knowledge – articles included have been published in 2009 and 2010.
Routledge Author Survey - The Results
Routledge strives to offer a high level of service to all our authors, ensuring a smooth, helpful and efficient publication process. Since October 2008 we have been conducting an author survey to find out in which areas we are excelling and where there is room for improvement, and we are pleased to share with you the latest results.
Next month on the Education Arena!
The Education Arena focus for March will be Disability & Inclusion. Look out for some exciting news items within this subject area, as well as updates to our Hot Topic Articles, Call for Papers and Special Issue collections.
