Call for Papers
Editorial Policy
The Journal of Engaged Pedagogy is
the academic journal of the Engaged Pedagogy Association. The Engaged Pedagogy
Association itself was born from two groups in Japan, Women Educators and
Language Learners (WELL) and Gender Awareness in Language Education (GALE),
the latter a special interest group of the Japanese Association for Language
Teaching (JALT). As members of WELL and GALE began to reach out more to both
Japanese and international organizations and conferences, we realized we
were in a unique position to serve others through our volunteering as translators,
interpreters, editors and activists. We therefore came together to provide
a forum for holistic, critical, feminist, radical, queer, spiritual, narrative
and reflective approaches to teaching and learning language and cross- cultural
studies. The first two volumes were published bilingually in Japanese and
English, and the third volume is expected to be trilingual in English, Spanish,
and Japanese. In principle, the editors are opposed to the hegemonic ideology
of English as an international language, and therefore encourage submissions
in any language in the following areas: practical and theoretical articles,
research reports, essays, poems and other literary works, artwork, and book
reviews. Every effort will be made to provide an English translation of articles
submitted in languages other than English, as well as a Japanese and/or Spanish
translation of articles submitted in English. >From the second volume,
the journal is available by subscription both on-line and in print editions.
A print edition of the first volume may be ordered from our homepage.
Guidelines
A key difference in the writing
we expect from you is that we want to know who you are and why you came to
your topic. We therefore encourage authors to clearly include and reflect
upon their own positions, identities, and biographies and also to collaborate
with and give credit to others, especially with learners and participants.
We believe good writing is clear, easy to understand, and a joy to read (as
well as to translate!). Please say what you mean as clearly, simply, and
beautifully as possible. At the same time, please experiment with different
formats. Don't feel bound by the traditional research article format you
are familiar with, but try to find the format that best expresses the spirit
of what you want to say.
Style
The Journal of Engaged Pedagogy follows the Publication Manual of the
American Psychological Association (see most recent edition). Consult recent
copies of the JALT Journal or TESOL Quarterly for examples of documentation
and references.
Format
Full-length articles should be less
than twenty A4 or 81/2 by 11 pages, double-spaced, or approximately 3,000
words if in the Roman alphabet.
Deadline
Last day of October.
Materials to be Submitted
1. Three (3) copies of the manuscript,
only one showing your name and identifying information.
2. A disk copy of the manuscript; please save in RTF format.
3. Contact information, including the author's full address, telephone, fax
number and e-mail address.
4. Abstract (no more than 150 words)
5. Biographical sketches (no more than 25 words)
Evaluation Procedures
All manuscripts are first reviewed
by the editorial board to insure that they comply with The Journal of Engaged
Pedagogy Guidelines. Those considered for publication are reviewed and the
author is given feedback by at least two readers. If accepted, in most cases
the writer will work with a developmental editor to revise the manuscript.
We highly value this collaborative process between the authors and the editorial
staff. However, the editors reserve the right to accept or reject articles
and to make final editorial changes to accepted manuscripts as a condition
of publication. Authors for JEP III will be notified of acceptance by the
end of December, 2003.
Please send submissions or general inquiries for JEP III by the end of October,
2003 to:
English or Spanish: Marie Wilson Nelson (mnelson@nl.edu)
Japanese: Reiko Yoshihara ( rei0225@m17.alpha-net.ne.jp)