MANUSCRIPTS SOLICITED
Special Issue of the Comparative Education Review
Deadline for Manuscript Submission: 30 June 2011
Projected Publication Date: February 2013
Theme: The Local and the Global in Reforming Teaching and Teacher Education
Guest Editors: Lynn Paine, Michigan State University; Email: painel@msu.edu
Ken Zeichner, University of Washington, Email: kenzeich@uw.edu
Abstract:
When government officials or international organization representatives perceive economic or political problems, they often call for reforms in education. Frequently, addressing the “problems” with the educational system are framed in terms of teachers not having received enough – or the right kind of – preservice and/or inservice teacher professional development. Reform initiatives, such as those concerned with what teachers should know and be able to do and/or the institutional contexts in which they should learn such knowledge and skill, are rarely undertaken in a vacuum, but are informed by other countries’ ideas and practices as well as being imbedded in national political economic dynamics. This special issue of the Comparative Education Review would bring together scholarship that examines how and why teacher education reform ideas circulate globally, how and why they inform policy, and/or how and why they influence practice. Of particular interest are multi-country comparative studies, which analyze how ideas regarding policy and practice flow (and/or are filtered) between these countries or from another source, and how those ideas are shaped to fit the unique contexts into which they are introduced. This special issue will also consider individual country cases which explore the “foreign” and “indigenous” influences on teacher education reform. In either multi-country or single-country studies, authors are encouraged to consider the roles played by multilateral and bilateral international organization, national governments, universities or other teacher education institutions, teachers’ unions/associations, NGOs, the private (for-profit) sector, and civil society.
Joint authorship, particularly involving individuals from different countries and/or based in different types of organizations, is especially welcomed.
Timelines and Procedures:
Manuscripts (prepared according to CER guidelines) should be submitted to the CER Editorial Manager system (http://www.editorialmanager.com/cer) for consideration by 30 June 2011. Prior submission or communication with the Guest Editors (Lynn Paine and Ken Zeichner) is strongly encouraged. The Guest Editors will assume first-cut responsibility for deciding whether a submitted manuscript fits the theme of the special issue and is sufficiently developed to warrant (double-blind) external review. Based on the reviewers’ comments, the Guest Editor will determine which manuscripts to accept and the nature of the revisions, if any, that are required. Revised manuscripts will need to be resubmitted by 15 July 2012. The complete set of contributions will be forwarded to the University of Chicago Press by 31 August 2012. This special issue is to be published and distributed in February 2013.