Education Today is a high-quality, peer-reviewed quarterly journal published by The College of Teachers. It is a primary source for articles by international contributors on current issues in education which offers the opportunity for practising teachers and lecturers to publish their research findings. Education Today welcomes articles on the following topics:

• Learning, teaching and classroom research
• Current issues in education
• Curriculum and curriculum research
• Initial teacher education
• In-service education and professional development
• The governance and management of education

Papers to be considered for the journal will be subject to peer review, the process by which an author’s work is considered and commented upon by independent experts working in the same field. These reviewers make a recommendation about whether the paper is suitable to be published in the journal either as it stands or with further revision by the author.

Articles should be academically sound and written in a style accessible to classroom teachers. Where possible, they should not be specific to a particular subject or geographical area. Full articles on any of the themes listed above should be approximately 3,000-4,000 words in length and referenced as specified below. Shorter non-referenced articles of 1,000-2,000 words may also be considered.

Submissions

Submissions should be sent in the first instance to the Editorial Assistant either as a manuscript with a disk or by email. All pages should be numbered. Article titles and all headings should be short and concise. Submissions should include:

• a short summary of the article of not more than 250 words;
• a brief biography of the author(s) of about 100 words;
• a list of keywords for the article to facilitate internet searches;
• authors’ names and contact details.

Style

British spellings should be used where appropriate, avoiding unnecessary use of capital letters.

Abbreviations and acronyms should be used only where instantly recognisable; the words should be provided in full initially.

Numbers under 10 should be spelled out in full unless attached to a unit of quantity or a percentage (except in tables and figures). ‘Per cent’ should appear in full, except in tables and figures.

Dates should appear in the form 23 July 2010.

Sexist formations should be avoided where possible.

Figures and tables

High quality reproduction can be obtained only from original artwork or photographs. Photocopies and negatives cannot be reproduced. All artwork should be supplied on separate sheets and all figures should be numbered in sequence with appropriate reference within the text (e.g. “see Figure 1”). Artwork should be original, but sources should be provided if relevant (see copyright below). Tables should be numbered consecutively, provided with numbered captions and referred to by number within the text. They should supplement rather than duplicate text data. Computer-generated diagrams should be in a format that groups items into one image.

Quotations

Short quotations should be indicated by double quotation marks within a paragraph of text and longer quotations should be supplied as a separate paragraph and appear indented, with no quotation marks. The source, including page number where appropriate, should be provided.

References and notes

References should use the Harvard system. References within the text should include the author’s name, date of publication and, if appropriate, page number quoted in brackets, e.g. (Smith, 2009: 139-40). The phrase et al. in italics may be used in the text to refer to works by more than two authors; names must be provided in full in the reference list.

A list of all referenced sources should be provided at the end of the text, in alphabetical order by author’s surname, for example:

Dale, R. (1989) The State and Education Policy, Milton Keynes: Open University Press.

Numbered notes may be added as superscript numbers in the text and listed at the end preceding the References in numerical order.

All references to Internet-based articles must be available at the time of journal publication. If including Internet-based content please take note of the guidance on copyright below.

Copyright material

It is the responsibility of the author(s) to obtain permission for the use of copyright material where necessary. For further information regarding copyright law, please refer to the Patent Office.

Illustrations, tables and displayed matter all require permission for use, if not original, irrespective of length.

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