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The Journal of Social Science Education (JSSE) is an international peer-reviewed academic open access journal in the area of research on teaching and learning in the field of social science education.

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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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Current Issue

Vol. 25 No. 3 (2026)
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Editors of this issue
Johan Sandahl, Stockholm University, Sweden
Jan Löfström, University of Turku, Finland
Tilman Grammes, Universität Hamburg, Germany
Isabel Menezes, University of Porto, Portugal
Andrea Szukala, Augsburg University, Germany
Edda Sant, University of Manchester, United Kingdom
Mehmet Acikalin, Istanbul University Cerrahpaşa, Turkey

This issue reaches you at a moment when universities are, slowly and unevenly, beginning to open up again after summer break. In this issue, we offer approaches from different angles but with a common thread around political education: that the institutions in which teaching and research take place are never neutral ground, and the question of what may be discussed, by whom, and on whose terms is itself a political question. The six articles in this issue, together with a country report and a book review, examine that question in classrooms and curricula across Sweden, Portugal, Québec, Finland and Latvia — from contested monuments and the politics of legal legitimation to peace and media education, philosophical inquiry with young students, just to mention some of the themes.

Published: 2026-08-31

Editorial

  • Editorial

    Johan Sandahl, Jan Löfström, Tilman Grammes, Isabel Menezes, Andrea Szukala, Edda Sant, Mehmet Açikalin

Article - Open Call

Country Report

Book Review

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