Contemporary Education Dialogue
Education
Contemporary Education Dialogue, in publication since July 2003, provides a space for scholarly conversations on issues critical to education. Under the guidance of Education Dialogue Trust, India, this peer-reviewed, Tri-annual journal aims to foster critical dialogue leading to the growth of theory and practice relevant to the Global South in areas ranging from classroom practice to policy and comparative perspectives. The journal aims to bridge the gulf between practitioners and academicians. Leading scholars from education and allied field have led the journal as its editors and are a part of the journal’s editorial advisory board. The main section of the journal carries peer-reviewed analytical articles; others include a special section dedicated to issues concerning teachers, teaching, and teacher education, scholarly commentary introducing classics in education to contemporary audiences, reviews and a reflective Endpage. The journal receives contributions from and is read widely by the scholarly, policy and practitioner community. Proposals for special issues, discussions and responses to published articles are welcome.
This journal is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).
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Contemporary Education Dialogue serves as an independent open forum for researchers and practitioners to sustain a critical engagement with issues in education by engendering a reflective space that nurtures the discipline and promotes inter-disciplinary perspectives. The peer-reviewed journal allows for a refinement of theoretical and practical basis for improving the quality of education, furthering the opportunity to directly create reflective classroom practices. It invites contributions by academicians, policy-makers and practitioners on various topics related to education, particularly elementary education. Discussions and responses to published articles are also welcome.
| Shailaja Menon | Tata Trusts, Mumbai |
| Manish Jain | Dr. B. R. Ambedkar University Delhi, Delhi |
| Shivali Tukdeo | Mahindra University, Hyderabad |
| Ruchi S Kumar | Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai |
| Mythili Ramchand | Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai, India |
| Nidhi Gulati | Institute of Home Economics, New Delhi, India |
| Amman Madan | Azim Premji University, Bhopal |
| Caroline Dyer | University of Leeds, UK |
| Christopher Winch | Kings College, London, UK |
| Crain Soudien | University of Cape Town, South Africa |
| Geetha Nambissan | Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi |
| Jayandhala B G Tilak | ICSSR National Fellow and Distinguished Professor, Council for Social Development, and former Vice Chancellor, National Institute of Educational Planning and Administration, New Delhi |
| Malavika Karlekar | Centre for Women's Development Studies, New Delhi |
| Mohammad Talib | University of Oxford, UK |
| Olga Nieuwenhuys | University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands |
| Padma M Sarangapani | Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai |
| Poonam Batra | Central Institute of Education, University of Delhi |
| Sadhna Saxena | formerly with University of Delhi |
| Sarada Balagopalan | Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, USA |
| Nargis Panchapakesan | formerly with University of Delhi |
| Vasanta Duggirala | formerly with Osmania University, Hyderabad |
| Vikas Gupta | University of Delhi |
Manuscript Submission Guidelines for Contemporary Education Dialogue
1. All manuscripts should be typewritten and double-spaced on A-4 paper with wide margins, back to back. Manuscripts are to be submitted by e-mail only.
E-mail: edudialogue@gmail.com
2. Contemporary Education Dialogue (CED) carries articles/ papers written in British English with ‘s’ spellings. Papers submitted in languages other than English may be considered, and if accepted for publication, will be translated and carried in the journal in English.
3. The same work should not have been published elsewhere and nor should it be submitted elsewhere at the time of being sent to CED. Copies of letters granting permission to reproduce illustrations, tables, or lengthy quoted passages should be included with the manuscripts.
4. At the time of receiving a submission, CED would send a contributor’s agreement form to the authors which wound need to be signed and returned, only after the manuscript has been accepted by the editorial board for publication.
5. Articles should be between 6000 and 8000 words in length. Review articles should be between 1000 and 1500 words, the commentary and end page between 2000 and 2500 words. Each Manuscript submitted should include an abstract of 100-150 words and five keywords.
6. The first page should contain the article title, author(s), affiliation(s), a short form of the title as the suggested running head (less than 45 characters including spaces and letters). For correspondence, please provide your name, phone number, complete mailing address and e-mail address.
7. The style for writing numerical expressions should be made consistent throughout the manuscript. For example, the style of referring to centuries (nineteenth century), decades (1960s), numerical ranges (1965–69 or 234–256) and spelling out numbers from one to nine and using numerals for 10 and above. However, for exact measurements, only figures (3 km, 9 per cent, not %) should be used. Figures should be mentioned in thousands and millions, and not lakhs and crores.
8. Notes should appear at the end of the text and before the references. No footnotes please. Each endnote used in the article should contain more than a mere reference.
9. Single quotes should be used throughout the article. Double quotes should be used only within single quotes.
10. All the references must be cited in text or endnotes, and follow the APA style of referencing in the text, for example:
(Tilak, 2008) or (Tilak, 2008, p. 12) or (Tilak, 2008, pp. 12–16)
11. A detailed list of references in alphabetical order must be provided at the end of the article following the endnotes. All details should be provided like: the author’s name, name of the book / name of the journal with issue number, publisher, place of publication, year and page range / number (in case of chapter from an edited book, journal, magazine, weekly, periodicals, newspapers). For example:
Sharma, S. R. (1992). Teacher education in India. New Delhi: Anmol Publications.
Misra, G., Srivastava, A. K., & Misra, I. (2006). Culture and facets of creativity. In J. C. Kaufman & R. J. Sternberg (Eds), The international handbook of creativity (2nd ed., pp. 421–455). New York: Cambridge University Press.
Raina, V. K. (1999). Indigenizing teacher education in developing countries: The Indian context. Prospects, 24(1), 5–25.
Ministry of Human Resource Development. (1986). National policy on education. New Delhi: Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India.
12. Page numbers for all direct quotations should be provided. Direct quotations of 45 words or more should be indented.
13. Tables and figures should be completely understandable, independent of the text and must be cited in the text. Source citations with tables and figures are required irrespective of whether or not they require permissions. Authors must provide good quality originals of all figures, to be directly reproduced for publication. Tables and figures should be attached to the end of the manuscript following the list of references.
14. Book reviews must contain details like name of the author/ editor and book reviewed, place of publication and publisher, year of publication, number of pages and price.
15. Since CED is a refereed journal, manuscripts appropriate for CED are subject to the usual process of anonymous review. Identifying information should be avoided in the body of the article.