Call for Papers and information for authors in English

Informations for authors

Here, you can find informations for writing articles for the Austrian Open Access Journal on Adult Education (Magazin erwachsenenbildung.at in German).

 

Current calls and information

Meb53: War and Peace in Adult Education

Even though war never completely disappeared from Europe after the Second World War but has been present in Spain, Northern Ireland and the Balkans, the majority of Europeans have the feeling that wars take place "somewhere else". Alongside the devastating consequences in these war zones, there are currently many discussions in Europe about supply of weapons, acts of war, efforts to bring about peace and pacifism and ultimately democracy itself. This presents adult education with new challenges. While educational materials dedicated to conflict management and peace education can be found in schools, there are some gaps in this regard in adult education. Issue 53 of The Austrian Open Access Journal on Adult Education (Meb) would like to address these gaps and examine war and peace from both academic and practice-oriented perspectives.

 

Editors: Daniela Ingruber and Julia Schindler

Editorial deadline: 5 May 2024

Publication date: October 2024

Meb52: Science and Communication

To be well informed enough to participate in society or democratic processes, citizens are dependent on scientific findings. Clear communication of not only knowledge but also scientific caution and skepticism as well as the questioning of misanthropic skepticism should be goals of a democracy at all times. These goals have always been important in adult education as well. Thus the popularization of science, critical awareness and mass education was already a central concern of adult education over one hundred years ago. What characteristics, challenges and real-life examples of scientific communication exist in the context of adult education?

 

Editors of the issue: Lukas Wieselberg and Stefan Vater

Submissions accepted until: February 2nd, 2024

Publication: June 2024

Submission, editorial process and publication

We recommend to contact the editorial office (magazin@erwachsenenbildung.at) with a short outline of the ideas for the planned article. You will receive feedback. send your contribution including any illustrations, tables and diagrams, a portrait photo of the autor(s) (at least 300 dpi) including credits, and a short biography of the author(s) to the editorial office.

 

All articles will be internally reviewed by our editorial board. Authors will receive a written summary of this evaluation. Afterwards, they can adapt their article if necessary. Decisive criteria for the acceptance of an article for publication are the topicality of the content and the correctness of the work, reference to the call for papers, relevance to Austria or the transferability of international findings to the situation in Austria, formal standards (above all length and citations), timely submission and readiness to cooperate with the editorial staff.

 

Finally, all contributions must be copy edited, based on the editorial evaluation and formal standards. The copy editing includes formal correction as well as spell checking and makes sure that all the requirements for publication have been met. The issue will be published in October 2022.

 

Upon publication of your article, you transfer its rights of use to the journal and agree to its publication on the Internet under a CC-BY Creative Commons license, in print and as an eBook via Books on Demand as well as its entry into database systems. All contributions that are accepted will receive an honorarium of EUR 110 to 274 depending on the length and category of the contribution from the Federal Institute for Adult Education. By submitting a manuscript, you confirm your acceptance of these conditions.

Categories of the Journal

“The Austrian Journal for Adult Education“ (Magazin erwachsenenbildung.at in German) covers articles in different categories. These categories pursue different goals and differ in their arrangement, design, focus and manner of dealing with topics. When writing your article, please do your best to ensure that it meets the requirements of one of the categories described below and that it does not exceed the maximal length.

 

Subject (15,000-25,000 characters)

 

This category features academic discussions, empirical studies, and theoretical papers as well as critical and personal points of view that deal with the questions and topics of the call for papers. Great emphasis is placed on clear structure and argumentation, on well-supported and relevant content as well as on the attention to scientific criteria, e.g. regarding citation.

 

Practice (15,000-25,000 characters)

 

This category addresses adult educators and professionals of related fields. In freely structured reports on their own experiences or in project reports, they can describe and reflect on their observations, concerns, challenges, and problems regarding the subject outlined in the call for papers.

 

Portrait (5,000-10,000 characters)

 

In this category authors are welcome to write about people whose work and thoughts are fundamental to adult education or who provide answers to the questions outlined in the call for papers.

 

Introduction in brief (5,000-10,000 characters)

 

In this category, institutions, or associations whose programs and services, target groups, procedures or methods are directly connected with the call for papers, have the opportunity to introduce themselves and their work/projects.

 

Review (5,000-10,000 characters)

 

In this category authors are free to discusses new publications or “classical“ literature dealing with the subject outlined in the current call for papers.

Editorial Team

 

Editorial Board

 

Elke Gruber (University of Graz)

Lorenz Lassnigg (Institute of Advanced Studies)

Julia Schindler (University of Innsbruck)

Kurt Schmid (ibw Austria – Research & Development in VET)

Stefan Vater (VÖV – Association of Austrian Adult Education Centers)

Lukas Wieselberg (ORF Science)

 

Editors of the journal

 

Eileen Mirzabaegi (Federal Ministry of the Republic of Austria – Education, Science and Research)

Dennis Walter (Federal Institute for Adult Education Austria)

Your Contact:

Coordination of the editorial process

 

Jennifer Friedl and Wilfried Frei, CONEDU

E-Mail: magazin@erwachsenenbildung.at

Tel.: +43 (0)316 719508-12