Announcements

• Gender parity in civic and citizenship education (1-2024)

  2022-11-16

  Editors: Olga Bombardelli (University of Trento, Italy) and Gina Chianese (University of Trieste, Italy)

  In this issue contributions are expected both to give an overview over the current practice of dealing with gender issues in civic and citizenship education, and to inquire how this topic should be implemented, especially in the schools of European countries. Educational practices and policies are very different in countries around the world, teaching strategies, syllabuses and lesson plans of civic and citizenship, implicit gender assumptions have to be considered.

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• Climate change and environmental activism (4-2023)

  2022-11-10

  This special issue welcomes papers that address climate change and environmental activism from this broad perspective, focusing on political, social and economic education, its policies, goals, institutions, practices and challenges. This includes discussions of the civic and political identities and experiences of climate change activists, but also on the political controversies and debates around climate change. It also welcomes papers that address how formal and non-formal education for climate change can play a role in generating relevant knowledge, dispositions and actions, or in creating community resilience towards climate change.

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• Open Call for Papers 4-2022

  2022-10-25

  The editorial team of the Journal of Social Science Education kindly invites authors to submit papers. The JSSE is an international peer-reviewed scientific journal for research on teaching and learning in the broad field of social science education. The journal covers a wide range of topics on civic, citizenship, political, economic and social education.

  With this Open Call, the JSSE invites contributions on questions, problems and topics related to social science education. In addition to the Open Call, the JSSE publishes thematically defined calls for papers for JSSE thematic issues several times a year. Please browse the journal’s issues to find out more about its profile, subject area and specific topics.

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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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