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Publication Frequency

This Journal is published two (2) to three (3) times per year, depending on the volume of submissions.

Journal of Educational Thought

Journal of Educational Thought promotes speculative, critical, and historical research concerning the theory and practice of education in a variety of areas including administration, comparative education, curriculum, educational communication, evaluation, instructional methodology, intercultural education, philosophy, psychology, and sociology.

Critical and controversial views in the field of education or on previously published articles in the Journal of Educational Thought (JET) appear in a section entitled "The Forum," which contains papers of a less formal nature.

The book section includes short book reviews as well as extended book review essays.

The Journal is international in scope and qualitative in nature. It serves a broad readership: specialists in the areas mentioned, scholars, and the public in general.

It is the policy of the Journal to provide an open forum for scholarly discussion. Editorials, articles, and book reviews are to be regarded as expressing the viewpoints of the writers themselves and not as reflecting official positions of the Werklund School of Education or the University of Calgary. The editors reserve the right to make changes that improve the clarity or brevity of manuscripts.

La Revue de la pensée Éducative a pour but de promouvoir la recherche fondamentale, critique et historique autour des questions que soulève la théorie ou la pratique de l'éducation, dans les domaines tels que l'administration scolaire, l'éducation comparée, la programmation, la communication, l'évaluation, la didactique, l'éducation interculturelle, la philosophie, la psychologie et la sociologie de l'éducation. La section "Forum" est le lieu de débats autour de questions d'actualité ou au sujet d'articles parus dans la Revue ; elle fait aussi place à la réflexion informelle. La section "Publications" est consacrée aux comptes rendus de lectures et aux recensions d'ouvrages. La Revue, d'envergure internationale, dessert un large éventail de lectuers: spécialistes, chercheurs, profanes. La Revue a pour mandat de favoriser l'échange savant; c'est pourquoi les éditoriaux, articles et recensions expriment les opinions de leurs auteurs et non celles de la Faculté d'éducation de l'Université de Calgary. La Revue se réserve le droit d'apporter aux textes qu'elle accepte les corrections jugées aptes à leur donner plus de clarté de concision.

Journal History

The Journal of Educational Thought (JET) has been in print since 1967.  It was planned in the first year (1966) the new University of Calgary was in existence and its first issue came out in 1967 under the editorship of the then Dean of the Faculty of Education, H.S. Baker .  It described itself as follows:

“The Journal of Educational Thought provides an outlet for the discussion of educational ideas.  In general, it complements empirical research by speculative, critical thought about public education. The Journal draws specifically upon philosophical, social and historical insights, but is receptive to other approaches both theoretical and practical--including both those of teachers and administrators”.

In its first issue a clear attempt was made to draw on important writers in Canada and abroad.  The lead article was by Charles Dobinson, a well known comparative educator from the University of Reading in the UK wrote on “Education Tomorrow”. James Paton from the University of Toronto addressed himself to the perennial problem of “Teaching People to Think ”.  Joseph Katz of the University of British Columbia offered a comparative analysis of the educational similarities and differences between Britain and Japan and our own Donald Vandenberg offered a case study of “Ideology and Educational Policy”.  Charles Phillips, the onetime Director of Graduate Studies in he Ontario College of Education and generally considered the dean of Canadian educators, offered in a piece entitled “Schooling in an Earlier Era” a lifetime of reminiscences. 

We are grateful to the past editors of JET who have contributed to its success over more than half a century.

- Sarah Elaine Eaton, PhD

Editor-in-Chief and Professor, Werklund School of Education