Aims and Scope

Educational Research for Social Change is an international peer-reviewed journal established in 2012 in the Faculty of Education, Nelson Mandela University. The idea of educational research having the potential of being transformative - through working 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 which draw on participatory methodologies such as Arts-Based Research (ABR), Community-Based Participatory Research (CBPR), Participatory Action Research (PAR), Participatory Action Learning and Action Research (PALAR), Participatory Visual Research (PVR/PVM), Self-Study Research (SSR) and other such empirical research, located in critical and transformative paradigms, seen as key in contributing to the transformation of education research and education itself.  ERSC also publishes original conceptual papers, 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. We do not accept articles that merely report on issues, where researchers harvest data from participants and interpret it to develop recommendations for change - the research itself must lead to some form of change in at least one of the following areas;  change in the researcher, change in the participants, change in the situation.

Accreditation

• DoHET from January 2016
• IBSS from February 2016
• Scopus from November 2018

Databases

• 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 R5000 from 2021 per article. There is NO submission fee.

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 of ERSC is a non-commercial licence which allows users to read, download, distribute, use, remix, build on the texts, with the proviso that the author/s and the journal is acknowledged. Original 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.

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• Adapt— remix, transform, and build upon the material
• Attribution— You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.
• NonCommercial— You may not use the material for commercial purposes.
• Authors retain copyright

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.