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ISSN 2040-4735 (online)

Critical and Reflective Practice in Education is an open-access, peer reviewed, electronic journal produced by the University College Plymouth St Mark & St John.  The aim of the journal is to provide a forum for the dissemination of work by researchers, practitioners and students in all forms of Education, thereby encouraging critical debate among the Education community as a whole.  In particular, the journal aims to be accessible to, and supportive of, those new to research and publication. 

Executive editors: Robert Guyver, Sean MacBlain, and Pauline Couper. 

Email smacblain@marjon.ac.uk

 

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Critical and Reflective Practice in Education will from now on publish one volume per calendar year.  Papers can be submitted at any time and will be published online as soon as they have been through peer review, accepted and formatted for publication.  In this way, each volume will build up through the year, so please make sure you come back and check for new papers. 

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CALL FOR PAPERS:

CRPE accepts any papers that fit the broad remit of the journal.  However, for volume 3 (2011) we are also interested in developing a 'special section' on

Education and Social Transformation 

This theme implies an examination of the role of education in different situations and different environments, local, regional and global as well as more specifically urban and/or rural, where the objective or outcome is transformation of a social need or injustice through the mediation or intervention of educational strategies.  Papers that fall into any of the categories listed below are welcome .  Please see instructions for authors at the bottom of this page.

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The journal welcomes the following kinds of contributions:

• Reflective or commentary papers that provide critical literature reviews, discussions of current topics or future directions, opinions, reflections on practice, or comments to published work.
• Curriculum papers that describe new materials developed for different aspects of education or related work.
• Teaching and learning papers, describing new teaching methods or pedagogies developed for courses or other target populations.
• Empirical research papers, presenting and analysing data to answer a specific research question or test a hypothesis.
• Theoretical research papers, describing new theories and philosophies in education, developed to fill a theoretical or philosophical gap. 

Please download the instructions for authors (below) for further guidance.  Authors considering writing for the journal are welcome to contact the editors to discuss their ideas.