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  • Call for Papers: Financial Literacy in Social Science Education

    2026-03-03

    In the context of changes in the welfare state, with growing individual responsibility, increasing financialisation and persistent social inequalities, financial literacy has gained significant importance in socio-political and educational policy in many countries. In both research and practice, financial literacy is often approached in a reductive way. It is primarily understood as an individual competence for rational participation in markets, while social, political, and institutional contexts receive insufficient attention. In short, the focus is frequently placed on individual behaviour rather than on structural conditions.

    This special issue responds to this tendency by aiming to situate financial literacy within a multidisciplinary social science framework, thereby positioning it as a core component of social science education. Understood in this way, might be better described as financial education. Drawing on key didactic principles of social science education, such as problem orientation, learner- and situation-oriented approaches, critical and reflective perspectives, as well as design-oriented learning, the special issue brings together both theoretical and empirical contributions.

    Submission deadline: October 1, 2026

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  • Call for Papers: The Beutelsbach Consensus Revisited – 50 Years of Guiding Principles for Political Education

    2026-02-09

    Since its formulation in 1976, the Beutelsbach Consensus has served as a central reference point for political and civic education, particularly within the German tradition of politische Bildung. Its three guiding principles – the prohibition of indoctrination, the requirement to treat controversial issues as controversial, and the orientation toward students’ interests and capacity for political action – have shaped debates on democracy education for nearly five decades. Also, the Beutelsbach Consensus has been translated into English, French, Spanish, Russian, Turkish and Arabic (see here https://www.lpb-bw.de/beutelsbacher-konsens-wortlaut).

    Submission deadline: July 1st, 2026

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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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  • Permanent Call for Papers

    2019-10-20

    The editorial team of the Journal of Social Science Education invites authors to submit articles. The JSSE is an international peer-reviewed academic journal in the area of research on teaching and learning in the field of social science education.

    It is characterised by its orientation towards both theory and research, originality and innovativeness, a strong interdisciplinary approach and internationalism with special attention to the European academic discourse (cf. About JSSE https://www.jsse.org/index.php/jsse/about). The JSSE welcomes contributions on a broad range of issues and themes regarding social science education.

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