I wish to draw your kind attention to a joint project by six journal. May I request you to please consider developing a paper and inform anyone in your circle who would be
interested in the same theme.
with best regards ramesh sharma
Indira Gandhi National Open University ============================================= Asian journal of distance education www.asianjde.org
Special Issue -2008
call for papers
What is the role of distance education in the implementation of the right to education ?
The Asian Journal of Distance Education, in collaboration with 5 international journals, is
launching a call for research and ìeffective practicesî papers to be published in 2008 concerning distance education and the right to education (in particular reference to article 26 of the Universal Declaration of the Human Rights of December 10th,
2008) :
What is the role of distance education in the implementation of the right to education ? How is distance education involved when education is seen as a right ? What is its position in educational
policy, as a factor of quality and an instrument for liberty.
This theme can be approached from multiple points of view, pedagogical, sociological, economical, political, legal.
Final texts selected by each participating journal
(according to the normal scientific process of anonymous review) will be published in their original language on a common website, with open access; articles will also be published by each journals separately, and in the printed versions of those
journals, either in their original language or translated.
Authors will benefit from a wide international dissemination, and their works will make up a common international reference regarding distance education
and the universal question of the right to education.
Schedule :
- October 2006 : call for papers
- January 31st, 2007 : deadline for submitting summaries of propositions for articles (500
to 1000 maximum words);
- April 1st, 2007 : Notification to authors of selected abstracts;
- December 1st, 2007 : deadline for submitting the first version of full text;
- January 1st, 2008 : Final versions of
texts;
- Spring 2008 : All selected texts published on common website of participating journals.
For Asian Journal of Distance Education, abstracts are to be sent as an email attachment to:
Editor@AsianJDE.org
Articles will have to conform to usual scholarly requirements : research questions, methodology, references, contextualisation, results and implications.
Scientific committee : Terry Anderson, Barbara Spronk
(IRRODL), John Bourne, Janet Moore (JALN), Reidar Roll, Svein Haaland, Ana Perona (Open Praxis), Paul Kawachi, Sanjaya Mishra, Ramesh C Sharma (AsianJDE), Alan Tait (EURODL) and Martine Vidal, Monique Grandbastien, Pierre Moeglin (D&S).
please visit www.asianjde.org to download a complete description of the theme.
