10TH YEAR ANNIVERSARY ISSUE OF THE JOURNAL OF EDUCATIONAL CONTROVERSY FEATURES AN OPEN ISSUE CALL FOR PAPERS

10TH YEAR ANNIVERSARY ISSUE OF THE JOURNAL OF EDUCATIONAL
CONTROVERSY FEATURES AN OPEN ISSUE
CALL FOR PAPERS

In previous issues of the Journal of Educational Controversy, we have
defined a contemporary controversy and asked our authors to examine
the issue. For our 10th year anniversary issue, we have decided to
have an open issue where authors can define their own controversy. We
ask authors to consider the following points:
1. Define an educational controversy - formal or informal education,
K-12, college or university, adult education, secular or religious
education, or larger philosophical issues in the educational ethos of
a society or a culture. The issue can be a contemporary one or a
perennial one that is revisited.
2. Explain the significance of the problem.
3. Provide an historical and philosophical framework for the controversy.
4. Lay out the different arguments surrounding the controversy.
5. Examine the underlying assumptions and resulting implications of
the different positions.
6. Provide suggestions to resolve the issues raised and provide
supporting arguments.

We remind authors that we publish controversies that are deeply
embedded in our conceptual frameworks. The journal tries to
distinguish between surface controversies and latent or depth
controversies.
For example, schools engage students in controversies all the time and
are embedded themselves in controversies. Most of these controversies
engage us in disagreements on a surface level. That is not to say that
these discussions are unimportant - only that they take place with
assumptions that remain unstated and beliefs that remain largely
hidden or submerged. The journal tries to go deeper by examining the
very frameworks in which all these surface controversies arose - to
get at our underlying assumptions and beliefs especially controversies
that involve public school and university policies and practices that
are deeply rooted in the tensions inherent in the philosophy of a
pluralistic, liberal democratic state.

PUBLICATION DATE: FALL 2015
DEADLINE FOR MANUSCRIPTS: JANUARY 1, 2015

NOW ONLINE: Vol. 8 No. 1 "Who Defines the Public in Public Education"
. The issue includes an article by Curtis Acosta, the teacher whose
Mexican American Curriculum was banned in Arizona. Along with his
article are videos from his visit to Western Washington University. We
also have an interview with the director of the documentary, "Precious
Knowledge."

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