Announcements

• Fostering Democratic Citizenship: Opportunities and Challenges of Education and Assessment

  2024-09-05

  This special issue responses to a lack of scientific knowledge in previous research on student learning from doing/practicing democratic citizenship in schools and in classrooms where teachers’ approach of instruction is crucial in providing appropriate learning opportunities. Finally, in current times of anti-democratic movements and fake news and war (and other crises for that matter), this whole issue is as relevant as ever. We aim to bring together ongoing research on education and assessment of democratic citizenship, taking into account several different perspectives, including pupils’, university students’, teachers’ and school leaders’. Through a variety of research methods, including both quantitative and qualitative approaches, the contributions are encouraged to analyse various possibilities and challenges to the development of democratic citizenship, with particular emphasis on the role of education and assessment.

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• Permanent Call for Country Reports: State of the art in social studies education in European countries

  2024-02-16

  The Journal of Social Science Education is committed to keeping its readers informed about the current state of social studies in Europe. Hence, we like to invite submission of papers that provide a documentary and descriptive overview of the current situation of civic, citizenship, economic, political and social education in individual countries to the European readership. A report should refer to educational institutions and policies in these fields, the scholarly state of the art, and the education of educators. It may describe the developments, decisions, policies, and events that have shaped the current situation on social science education. A list of country reports that have been published in JSSE can be found here.

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• Call for JSSE Special Issue Proposals

  2023-03-10

  The JSSE is looking for innovative research topics and ground-breaking ideas in the field of social science education, civic education, and economic education. We particularly aim to promote the development of new ideas and areas of research and to contribute to a dynamic scientific agenda setting in the field. This aims to encourage international teams of younger scientists to set topics together and to initiate a conversation about current challenges and issues. We therefore welcome submissions on any topic within the social science education that fit the academic profile of the journal, see here https://www.jsse.org/index.php/jsse/about . We are particularly interested in receiving proposals that consider topics from an interdisciplinary and comparative perspective.

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• Preview of Thematic Issues 2023-2024

  2020-03-23

  Preliminary plan of special topics of the JSSE in the next two years.

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• Call for Book Reviews

  2018-11-19

  The Journal of Social Science Education welcomes the opportunity to publish reviews of current books in social science education. Book reviews are either solicited by the responsible editor or may be offered unsolicited by prospective reviewers.

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