We invite submissions that celebrate the successes, and challenges, of non-mainstream learning, and that help promote an understanding of how authentic alternative learning environments can inform educational policy. As well, we welcome articles that highlight the limitations of mainstream schooling.
The Journal of Unschooling and Alternative Learning publishes articles in a variety of scholarly forms; for example, review essays, discussions, book reviews, research notes. We encourage and support creative representational forms of work.
Length and Format:
Articles should not exceed 7,000 words (including quotations, notes, and references); review essays, 2,000 words; discussions, 1,500 words; book reviews and research notes, 1,000 words. Articles are peer-reviewed, but book reviews and review essays are not. Authors are responsible for ethics approval for manuscripts by receiving approval from their own institutions.~ Ethics approval must be obtained for on-line articles, including music, visuals, or photographs, and proof of ethics approval should be provided to the Journal. The Journal's style generally follows the most recent edition of the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association; English spelling follows the most recent edition of the Canadian Oxford Dictionary. Please include an abstract of approximately 100 words. All texts should be saved in Rich Text Format ( RTF ), and images should be saved in JPG format, and should follow the above ethics guidelines. Depending on space, we reserve the right to select which images will be included.
In submitting a manuscript, authors affirm that the research is original and unpublished, is not in press or under consideration elsewhere, and will not be submitted elsewhere while under consideration by the Journal. This applies to evidence or data as well as form of argument.
In short, we are interested in articles that focus on the following:
- Unschooling or life learning (we are interested in any age group and not just school age children, for example)
- Learner centered democratic education
- Limitations of the mainstream educational system
Send submissions to Carlo Ricci (carlor@nipissingu.ca)