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  • Open Call 2-2023

    2023-05-08

    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.

    The deadline for submitting contributions to the Open Call 2-2023 is June 30, 2023. The review process for all submitted manuscripts starts in July 2023. The next Open Call 3-2023 will be published on the website in April, the deadline will be September 30, 2023.

    We ask for your understanding that submissions that do not meet the formal requirements of the JSSE Author Guidelines will not be accepted for review. 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.

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  • Postcolonial Social Science Education

    2023-04-06

    Editors: Katarina Blennow, Lund/Sweden; Tilman Grammes, Hamburg/Germany

    Deadline for first submissions: 15 February 2024

    In recent years, a vibrant global discourse on postcolonialism has emerged in many subdisciplines of social sciences. While the collective memory of the colonial past and its legacy in today’s global world is relatively well researched (e.g. in heritage education), issues concerning how the postcolonial condition and postcolonial perspectives affect social science education in a more narrow sense have received less attention. This issue therefore strives to investigate concrete instances of postcolonial encounters and experiences as well as decolonization efforts in the present social science education. The volume thereby aims to inspire research on the relationship between postcolonial studies and the field of social science education. A special focal point is the integration of postcolonial perspectives and decolonization practices in social science classrooms. How are postcolonial or decolonial perspectives reflected in social science education? What issues and problems are discernable when studying social science education through the lens of postcolonial theory (and practice)?

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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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  • Change in Citizenship and Social Science Education in (post)War Time

    2023-02-13

    Editors: Violetta Kopińska (Nicolaus Copernicus University, Toruń, Poland) and Mehmet Açıkalın (Istanbul University - Cerrahpasa, Turkey).

    How does education respond to current, future, and past armed conflicts? This question seems to be of particular relevance to citizenship education and social sciences education, as the concept of a citizen is highly sensitive to such situations.

    The main aim of this special issue is to identify and describe the relationship between war/armed conflict and citizenship education/social science education (formal, informal, non-formal) in a broad perspective.

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  • 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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