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Academic Leadership (Hernando)
The online Journal of Academic Leadership is aimed at those in the academic world who care about leadership issues. We will provide a vast array of articles and essays that speak to the major issues of leadership faced by those in leadership roles – from unit coordinators to university presidents.

Across the disciplines
Across the Disciplines, a refereed journal devoted to language, learning, and academic writing, publishes articles relevant to writing and writing pedagogy in all their intellectual, political, social, and technological complexity. ATD shares the mission of the WAC Clearinghouse in making information about writing and writing instruction freely available to members of the CAC, WAC, and ECAC communities.

Adv Physiol Educ Online

Advances in physiology education
Advances in Physiology Education is dedicated to the improvement of teaching and learning physiology, both in specialized courses and in the broader context of general biology education. Advances also aims to increase recognition of physiology education as a scholarly activity. The journal publishes peer-reviewed descriptions of new strategies for teaching in the classroom and laboratory, essays on education, and review articles for teachers on our current understanding of physiological mechanisms, new technology for teaching and research, and pedagogy.

Applied Theatre Researcher
The IDEA Journal is currently hosted by the Applied Theatre Research Program within the Centre for Public Culture and Ideas. IDEA, the International Drama/Theatre and Education Association, is the world peak body of drama educators. Besides being an advocacy body for drama and theatre in educational contexts, IDEA assists in the development of international projects concerned with using theatre and drama as a space for inter-cultural dialogue and also in assisting in the empowerment and enfranchisement of young people at risk, at social disadvantage and in war zones.

Asia-Pacific Forum on Science Learning and Teaching
The founding issue of this online periodical was formally launched on 10 July, 2000. As derived from some selected articles in the first 3 issues of this online journal, the first monograph called "Innovative Ideas in Science Teaching: Theories and Exemplars" has just been published in the printed form.

Australasian Journal of Educational Technology
The Australasian Journal of Educational Technology is a refereed journal publishing research and review articles in educational technology, instructional design, educational applications of computer technologies, educational telecommunications and related areas. AJET's principal supporting societies are:

Australian Educational Computing
Australian Educational Computing is the journal of the Australian Council for Computers in Education (ACCE). Subscription is complimentary to members of affiliated computer education groups.

Australian Educational Researcher
The Journal of the AARE, the AER, is published three times per year. The AER is a fully refereed journal.

After four years at the University of South Australia under the leadership of Jane Kenway, the AER has relocated to James Cook University. The JCU team was awarded the editing role following a call for submissions to the AARE Executive. Annette Patterson is the new Managing Editor.

Australian Journal of Educational & Developmental Psychology
The AJEDP is a double blind peer reviewed online journal publishing research and scholarly reports from the broad areas of educational and developmental psychology. The journal aims to attract publication from a diversity of theoretical and methodological perspectives, encompassing research and scholarship relevant to understanding the learning processes across all age groups and across all educational settings. The Editors may on occasion invite papers for a special thematic issue.

Bilingual Research Journal
The Bilingual Research Journal (BRJ) is published three times each year and covers a wide range of topics relating to bilingual education, bilingualism in society, and language policy in education. The journal contains three sections: research and essays, the traditional formats of scholarly discourse; research in practice, which documents the experience of teachers and other practitioners; and book reviews.

Bioscience Education Electronic journal
Bioscience Education Electronic journal (BEE-j) is an on-line, bi-annual electronic journal owned and published by the Centre for Bioscience. Its aims are to promote, enhance and disseminate research, good practice and innovation in tertiary level teaching and learning within the biosciences disciplines.

Cadernos Cedes   
A thematic publication directed to professionals and researchers from the educational field, aiming at approaching significant and current issues in that field.

Cadernos de pesquisa
A journal of studies and research in education, having as its purpose the publication of academic research on education, gender, and race, stimulating the exchange of information and the discussion of the main issues and emerging themes in the field. It gives priority to studies carried out in Brazil, but also publishes foreign works.
 

Canadian Journal of Educational Administration and Policy
The Canadian Journal of Educational Administration and Policy (CJEAP) is a peer reviewed online journal based at the Faculty of Education, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. All work - submission, review, revision and distribution - is carried out by electronic mail. Any article may be reproduced freely, provided that the author and Journal are credited and copies are not sold. 

Canadian Journal of Learning and Technology
The Canadian Journal of Learning and Technology is a peer-reviewed journal that welcomes papers on all aspects of educational technology and learning. Topics may include, but are not limited to: learning theory and technology, cognition and technology, instructional design theory and application, online learning, computer applications in education, simulations and gaming, and other aspects of the use of technology in the learning process. Manuscripts may be submitted either in English or in French.

Chimera
Chimera™, means "the creation of imagination", and is a quarterly electronic journal published by the USA/Africa Institute. Chimera is a platform for individuals who seek to stimulate thought and nurture discussion on the Institute's core areas:

  • Culture

  • Economics/Economic Development

  • Education

  • Governance/Diplomacy

  • Health

  • Technology

The College Quarterly
The College Quarterly is an academic journal devoted to the improvement of college education and the professional development of college educators. Focused on colleges in Canada but developed to serve the common needs of college educators in North America and worldwide, CQ is a resource for teaching and learning and provides an opportunity for research publication, information about developments of significance to college educators, and commentary on policy issues of concern to the educational community and its attentive publics.
Computers in Higher Education Economics Review
An international peer-reviewed journal that promotes research into effective learning and teaching in economics in higher education ISSN: 1477-3880
Contemporary Issues in Technology and Teacher Education
Contemporary Issues in Technology and Teacher Education (CITE) is a publication of the Society for Information Technology and Teacher Education (SITE), established as an electronic counterpart of the Journal of Technology and Teacher Education. Funded by a US Department of Education Preparing Tomorrow's Teachers to Use Technology (PT3) catalyst grant, CITE makes possible the inclusion of sound, animated images, and simulation, as well as allowing for ongoing, immediate dialog about theoretical issues.
Current Issues in Comparative Education
Current Issues in Comparative Education (CICE) is an on-line, open access journal based at Teachers College, Columbia University, that
publishes scholarly work from a variety of academic disciplines. CICE seeks clear and significant contributions that further debate on
educational policies and comparative studies.

 

Currents in Electronic Literacy
Published twice annually, since spring 1999. Maintained by the Computer Writing and Research Lab of the Division of Rhetoric and Composition at the University of Texas at Austin.
"The journal seek to publish work addressing the use of electronic texts and technologies in reading, writing, teaching, and learning in fields including but not restricted to:literature (in English and in other languages), rhetoric and composition, languages (English, foreign, or ESL), communications, media studies, and education."

Current Issues in Education
A Peer-reviewed journal published once a year since 1998, by the College of Education at Arizona State University. 
"The mission of Current Issues in Education is to advance scholary thought by publishing articles promoting dialogue, research, practice, and policy as well as developing community of scholarship." 

  E Journal of Organizational Learning and Leadership
 
e-Journal of Instructional Science and Technology (e-Jist)
The e-Journal of Instructional Science and Technology (e-JIST) is an International peer-reviewed electronic journal.
The Journal is an multi-faceted publication with content likely to be of interest to policy makers, managers, investors, professional staff, technical staff, and academics within education and training.
e-learning and education
In co-operation with the
FernUniversität in Hagen and the CampusSource initiative, a new e-journal - e-learning and education (eleed) - was launched in February 2005. The journal offers a platform for new scientific research results from the widespread area of all e-Learning aspects. The articles are freely accessible via Internet (open ACCESS).

DIE Zeitschrift für Erwachsenenbildung
Hrg. vom Deutschen Instituts für Erwachsenenbildung, viermal jährlich. Online seit 1997.
"
ein Forum für den Diskurs über pädagogische Fragen und Perspektiven in Theorie und Praxis. informiert über aktuelle Entwicklungen, Erfahrungen, Angebote und Publikationen."

ECRP Early Childhood Research and Practice
Published twice  annually since spring 1999. Sponsored by ERIC Clearinghouse on Elementary and Early Childhood Education  at the University of Illinois.
"ECRPcovers topics related to the development, care, and education of children from birth to approximately age 8. ECRP emphasizes articles reporting on practice-related research and development, and on issues related to practice, parent participation, and policy."

Educação & Sociedade
Designed to be an incentive to academic research, and an instrument of broad debate on education in its several aspects, the journal accepts contributions in the form of articles and reviews in the Education Science fields
Educação e Pesquisa
Publishes reports of original research in the field of education, including the results of theoretical and empirical studies, reviews of the educational research literature, and critical reflections on pedagogical experiences.

Education Policy Analysis Archives
Published since 1993, EPAA's entire contents are available online in HTML format with 15-20 articles per volume. The archives of the journal are searchable.
EPAA is a journal on education related topics featuring articles on educational institutions at all levels and including many case studies from all parts of the world. Authors' affiliations are diverse encompassing academic institutions, policy groups, government offices, and commercial enterprises.

Education Week  & Teacher Magazine
Thousands of Online Texts going back to 1981.
Daily News on Schools and Education
"Editorial Projects in Education Inc. publishes EducationWeek, the monthly Teacher Magazine, and EducationWeek on the Web. We are a nonprofit, tax-exempt organization based in Washington, D.C"
Our primary mission is to help raise the level of awareness and understanding among professionals and the public of important issues in American education. We cover local, state, and national news and issues from preschool through the 12th grade. We also provide periodic special reports on issues ranging from technology to textbooks, as well as books of special interest to educators.

Educational Insights
In 1990, a graduate-student journal, Educational Insights, was initiated to  give graduate students an opportunity to reach out to other educators by publishing what they have learned from their studies and by serving in an editorial capacity to help others share their work. 
The journal welcomes papers that offer original, thought-provoking, and imaginative explorations of curriculum theory and practice. It encourages a wide range of voices, perspectives, positions, and approaches that enlarge our understanding of the educational process.

Education Policy Analysis Archives
A peer reviewed journal published by the College of Education Arizona State University and the  College of Education University of South Florida. 

Educational Technology & Society
Educational Technology & Society is a quarterly journal  but the articles will be published as soon as they are ready for publication, so that the issue will be built up and at any moment, one issue of the journal would be available to accept the articles.
Educational Technology & Society seeks academic articles on the issues affecting the developers of educational systems and educators who implement and manage such systems. The articles should discuss the perspectives of both communities and their relation to each other.

E Journal of Organizational Learning and Leadership
Welcome to the E-Journal of Organizational Learning and Leadership.  This journal is now published on a continuous basis. 
e-Journal of Instructional Science and Technology (e-Jist)   
The e-Journal of Instructional Science and Technology (e-JIST) is an International peer-reviewed electronic journal.
The Journal is an multi-faceted publication with content likely to be of interest to policy makers, managers, investors, professional staff, technical staff, and academics within education and training.
e-learning and education
In co-operation with the FernUniversität in Hagen and the CampusSource initiative, a new e-journal - e-learning and education (eleed) - was launched in February 2005. The journal offers a platform for new scientific research results from the widespread area of all e-Learning aspects. The articles are freely accessible via Internet (open ACCESS). They are submitted to a Reviewing process, in order to guarantee a high scientific quality. The topicality remain protected, since each article will be published directly after completed appraisal.
Early Childhood Research & Practice  
Early Childhood Research & Practice (ECRP),
a peer-reviewed electronic journal sponsored by the Early Childhood and Parenting (ECAP) Collaborative at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, covers topics related to the development, care, and education of children from birth to approximately age 8. ECRP emphasizes articles reporting on practice-related research and development, and on issues related to practice, parent participation, and policy.
Educação & Sociedade 
Designed to be an incentive to academic research, and an instrument of broad debate on education in its several aspects, the journal accepts contributions in the form of articles and reviews in the Education Science fields
Education Next
In the stormy seas of school reform, this journal will steer a steady course, presenting the facts as best they can be determined, giving voice (without fear or favor) to worthy research, sound ideas, and responsible arguments. Bold change is needed in American K–12 education, but Education Next partakes of no program, campaign, or ideology. It goes where the evidence points
Education Policy Analysis Archives  
A peer reviewed journal published by theCollege of Education Arizona State University and the College of Education University of South Florida
Education Review
education review publishes reviews of recent books in education, covering the entire range of education scholarship and practice.
Education Sciences and Psychology
Reviewed Eletronic Scientific Journal
  Educational Technology & Society  Educational Technology & Society is a quarterly journal (January, April, July and October).

Educational Technology & Society seeks academic articles on the issues affecting the developers of educational systems and educators who implement and manage such systems.

Educause Quarterly
EDUCAUSE Quarterly is a practitioner's journal for college and university managers and users of information resources—information, technology, and services—published quarterly by EDUCAUSE.
Educause Review
EDUCAUSE Review is the general-interest, bimonthly magazine published by EDUCAUSE. With a publication base of 19,500, EDUCAUSE Review is sent to EDUCAUSE member representatives as well as to presidents/chancellors, senior academic and administrative leaders, non-IT staff, faculty in all disciplines, librarians, and corporations. The magazine takes a broad look at current developments and trends in information technology, what these mean for higher education, and how they may affect the college/university as a whole.
  Electronic Journal for the Integration of Technology in Education
The refereed journal is produced by a team of graduate students in the Educational Leadership program as a part of their Instructional Technology doctoral classes. Students are supervised by a board of faculty, who assist students in setting and maintaining editorial standards for the journal.
Electronic Journal of eLearning Electronic Journal of e-Learning
The Electronic Journal of e-Learning is an online journal that aims to publish articles and papers that contribute to the development of both the theory and practice in the field of e-Learning.
Electronic Journal of Literacy through Science
The primary goal of the Electronic Journal of Literacy through Science (EJLTS) is to address access and equity within science education. Through EJLTS, we are seeking solutions to deal with literacy for first and second language learners, and simultaneously providing access to science
Electronic Magazine of Multicultural Education
The Electronic Magazine of Multicultural Education (EMME) is a free-access e-journal published twice a year for international scholars, practitioners, and students of multicultural education. EMME is committed to providing a forum in which scholarly and practical ideas can be exchanged to strengthen the theories and practices of multicultural education. Uniquely theme-oriented, each issue of EMME contains articles, instructional ideas, and reviews of arts, juvenile and professional books, and multimedia materials on a particular theme. EMME also publishes articles that may not deal with specific issue themes, but broad topics of multicultural education.

The Electronic Journal of Science Education
Published and edited by  John R. Cannon from the university of Nevada. Full text on-line  articles since 1996.
The Electronic Journal of Science Education is peer reviewed electronic journal,  devoted to the timely sharing of science education information via the World Wide Web. Using communications technology, information and research related to science education issues."

The University of Waikato - Te Whare Wananga o Waikato English Teaching: Practice and Critique
English Teaching: Practice and Critique is a peer-reviewed journal aimed at encouraging critical reflective practice and classroom-based research. It seeks to promote theorising about English/literacy that is grounded in a range of contexts: classrooms, schools and wider educational constituencies. It will provide a place where authors from a range of backgrounds can identify matters of common concern and thereby foster professional communities and networks.
Essays in Education
Essays in Education is a peer-reviewed electronic journal that seeks to explore the multitude of issues that impact and influence education.

In accord with its broad focus, the journal welcomes contributions that enhance the exchange of diverse theoretical and practical information among educators, practitioners, and researchers around the world.

International Education
Published not regularly since Nov. 1996. Contains articles, student projects, reviews, travellers tales etc.
IE is the official journal of the Center for research in International Education. Provides research in international education, international education programs, and projects related education and training with international dimensions.

International Studies in Sociology of Education
This international journal, first published International Studies in Sociology of Education Published three times a year, those two issues (approximately 360 pages) constituting one volume. Volumes 1–7 each contained two numbers per volume. An annual index and title-page is bound in the final issue of each volume.
In 1991, seeks to publish material from current research projects in the sociology of education from around the world, and to offer insights and ideas which seek to move the debates forward on their respective topics. The three issues published each year are devoted to a particular theme.

Journal of Asynchronous Learning Networks
The Journal of Asynchronous Learning Networks is published online by Vanderbilt University.
The objectives of the ALN Web are to provide (1) a focal point for information interchange among researchers and practitioners in the field of asynchronous learning networks and (2) a scholarly reviewed online journal which captures the archival knowledge of the field.

Journal of Extension
Published six times per year.
"JOE is the official refereed electronic journal of the nationwide CooperativeExtension System."JOE was first published electronically in 1994 after 30 years as a print journal." The Journal of Extension has back issues from Fall 1987 online. Issues from 1963 to Summer 1987are only available in print."
"JOE seeks to expand and update the research and the knowledge base of Extension professionals and others to improve their effectiveness as educators."

Journal of Technology Education
Published biannually since 1989, the journal's entire contents are available online with many documents posted in .pdf format in addition to HTML. Most issues contain five articles in addition to book reviews and editorials.
JTE publishes manuscripts on technology education research, philosophy, theory, and practice in addition to book reviews, editorials, guest articles, comprehensive literature reviews, and reactions to previously published articles

Journal of Vocational and Technical Education
JCTE is an Americanjournal in the field of vocational and technical education.Published online twice a year ( June & December ) since fall 1995.
"The Journal of Vocational and Technical Education (JVTE) is anon-profit, refereed national publication of Omicron Tau Theta, thenational, graduate honorary society of vocational and technicaleducation."JVTE serve as a forum for discussion of philosophy, theory,practice, and issues in vocational and technical education.
From 2000 onwards, the Journal is published under the name of
"Journal of Career and Technocal Education"

Procedings
First published in 1979, the conference proceedings are the crowning glory of the AERC. Serving as the official record of the AERC, they not only reflect the changing emphasis and orientation of research in adult education, but also evidence the growing diversity and maturity of the field itself.

Radical Pedagogy
Radical Pedagogy is a peer reviewed, academic journal with an International Editorial Board.  Articles are published on a per-issue basis with regular volume numbers and authors are invited to submit their work at any time throughout the year. Online since Spring 1999.
The journal is devoted to the examination of the evolving state of teaching and learning in contemporary academia.

Tangentium
Tangentium is an online journal devoted to alternative perspectives on IT, politics, education and society.
 

Markus Roth

Soziologisches Institut
der Universität Zürich
Andreasstr. 15  8050 Zürich
maro@socio.ch

Prof. Hans Geser

Soziologisches Institut
der Universität Zürich
Andreasstr. 15  8050 Zürich

hg@socio.ch

Nora Zapata

Soziologisches Institut 
der Universität Zürich
Andreasstr. 15  8050 Zürich
zapata@soziologie.uzh.ch