Focus and Scope
IJSE aims at presenting up-to-date, state of the art theoretical and empirical studies concerning socialization, education, and educational institutions, enlarging and deepening the mutual knowledge and collaboration between Italian and foreign scholars within a broad, global perspective.
The academic world and research institutes, academic and departmental libraries, graduate students and PhD candidates, academic and non-academic researchers and research teams.
Main topics are the meanings of education; socialization and its institutional loci; school and the university; human and social capital; lifelong education; educational actors and policy; immigration and education.
Structure
IJSE will be divided in editorial sections:
1. Main theme: a monographic section edited by a guest editor
2. Essays: single essays and papers which do not pertain to the “Main theme” section
3. Up and Coming: essays coming from the best PhD dissertations, book reviews, review essays, etc.
Guest editor: will have the responsibility of the selection and editing of the papers of section (1)
Periodicity
IJSE is a tri-annual journal (issues will be published in February, June, October)
Section Policies
Articles
 Open Submissions |
Indexed |
Peer Reviewed |
Oral Publication
| Open Submissions |
Indexed |
Peer Reviewed |
Introduction
| Open Submissions |
Indexed |
 Peer Reviewed |
News
| Open Submissions |
Indexed |
Peer Reviewed |
Reviewed Articles
| Open Submissions |
Indexed |
Peer Reviewed |
Congress and Conference
| Open Submissions |
Indexed |
Peer Reviewed |
Book Review
| Open Submissions |
Indexed |
Peer Reviewed |
Republished Article
| Open Submissions |
Indexed |
Peer Reviewed |
Peer Review Process
Manuscripts have to be submitted six months before publication.
All received manuscripts will be submitted to a blind peer review process.
The reviewing process will take three weeks.
Open Access Policy
This journal provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge.
Deadlines for the first 6 issues
2009
issue 1: August 31, 2008
issue 2: December 31, 2008
issue 3: April 30, 2009
2010
issue 1: August 31, 2009
issue 2: December 31, 2009
issue 3: April 30, 2010
Contents of the first 6 issues (Main theme section):
1) “The meaning of education”, papers from the Urbino AIS meeting. Guest editor: Luisa Ribolzi
2) “Social capital and education”, papers on social capital and education (group 6) and educational agents (group 5). Guest editor: Andrea M. Maccarini
3) “Autonomy: After Ten Years” - School and the university (group 3: actors and policies). Guest editors: Lorenzo Fischer and Paolo Serpieri
4) “Reforming the University” (group 4). Guest editor: Paolo Trivellato
5) “Migration and education” (group 1). Guest editor: Luca Queirolo Palmas
6) “Adults and lifelong education” (group 2). Guest editor: Carlo Catarsi
