Aims and Scope
Educational Research for Social Change is an international peer-reviewed journal established in 2012. The idea of educational research having the potential of being transformative - through its work with communities and through various participatory research approaches - is something that is still very new in many educational research circles. This journal therefore aims to play a critical role in confirming the importance of educational research as social change, contributing to the theorising thereof, and the dissemination of current research to a broad, cross-disciplinary audience of scholars and practitioners in the field of education.
ERSC publishes scientific articles such as original conceptual papers and qualitative empirical research which draws on interpretive and transformative paradigms and participatory methodologies and methods, which have a change agenda, and which is seen as critical in contributing to transformation in education. It also publishes book reviews and conference and project reports which are relevant to the scope of the journal. Each publication should clearly demonstrate its relevance to social change.
Accreditation
- DoHET from January 2016
- IBSS from February 2016
Data bases
- Sabinet Link
http://reference.sabinet.co.za/document/WCT871355834
[Worldcat: OCLC number 871355834]
- Ebscohost
- Proquest
- Scielo
The journal is financially supported by the Faculty of Education, Nelson Mandela University, South Africa.
The publication of the journal is made possible through processing fees of R3 500 per article for 2018 and R4 000 from 2019 per article.
CALL FOR PAPERS
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(September 2018)
Copyright of articles
ERSC adheres to the BOAI definition of open access, and thus users have the right to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of these articles.
The Creative Commons license allows users to read, download, distribute, use, remix, build on the texts, with the proviso that the author/s and the journal is acknowledged. Authors retain unrestricted publishing rights.
Terms of use
- Any person using ERSC Online may view, reproduce or store copies of articles from the journal provided that the articles are used only for personal, non-commercial use.
Disclaimer of warranties
- No responsibility is accepted by the Editors, by ERSC or by the Nelson Mandela University (NMU) for the opinions expressed by contributors or for the content. No responsibility is assumed by ERSC and the NMU and editors of ERSC, for any injury and/or damage to persons or property as a matter of products liability, negligence or otherwise, or for any use or operation of any methods, products, instructions, or ideas contained in the material published.