4-2012: Citizenship and Community

Journal of Social Science Education:

Volume 11, Number 4, © JSSE 2012, ISSN 1618-5293

Citizenship and Community

Call for Papers

Journal of Social Science Education (JSSE)

Issue 4/2012

The Journal of Social Science Education will publish a special issue in December 2012 on the theme of ‘Citizenship and Community’.

Community is a significant priority in many countries. David Cameron in the UK has proclaimed the importance of what he refers to as ‘the big society’; Barack Obama worked as a community organizer and many of the policies he is now developing seem to have connections with that experience; Angela Merkel has raised issues about multicultural communities in Germany. In education ‘service learning’, ‘community involvement’ and ‘citizenship education’ are key terms that reflect the need to respond to perceived changes in the nature of political engagement; debates about the extent to which young people understand and are involved in society; the significance of gender to the possibilities and forms of involvement in society, and, the need to recognise, celebrate and further develop a multicultural society.

The issue will contain:

An editorial in which key themes are highlighted and articles are briefly summarized;
6 articles of between 6-9000 words (or 38000-65000 signs, blanks included) each incorporating a range of perspective about community and citizenship;
4-6 book reviews (each approximately 4-800 words long) on issues to do with community and citizenship

The editors welcome articles from a variety of perspectives (e.g. service learning, character education, political literacy); a range of countries within and beyond Europe; issues that affect students of different ages. The focus of the special issue will be education but the editors will welcome theoretical and other material that allows for consideration of issues using insights from a range of academic disciplines (e.g. urban education; community psychology; international development studies etc).

The following schedule will be used:

Call for papers: March 2011

First submission by authors to editors: October 2011

Response to authors by editors: December 2011

Final submission from authors: March 2012

Copy editing: May 2012

Copy editing completed by authors and editors: June 2012

Proofs sent to authors: July 2012

Proofs completed by authors: September 2012

Journal ready for publication: December 2012

Editors: Gillian Hampden Thompson, Ian Davies, Vanita Sundaram and Maria Tsouroufli of the University of York, UK; and George Bramley of the National Foundation for Educational Research, UK.

Those wishing to discuss matters about the special issue should contact

Professor Ian Davies, Department of Education, University of York, UK, tel: +44(0)1904 323452; email: ian.davies@york.ac.uk .

Articles and reviews should be submitted to Yvonne Mason (yvonne.mason@york.ac.uk).

We kindly ask all authors to follow the editorial guidelines of the JSSE:

http://www.jsse.org/info/authors-reviewers/author-instructions