Focus and Scope

Pedagogical Forum (Forum Pedagogiczne) publishes scholarly texts (articles, reviews, reports) with educational concepts of contemporary theories and practices. It creates platform for dialogue and exchange of ideas on current educational issues, both in Poland, in other European countries and around the world. The journal has being edited in paper version twice a year (biannually). There are accepted scholarly texts  representing all the sub-disciplines of contemporary sciences of education (pedagogy) in Polish and English.

Long-term preservation service: Content of published ‘Pedagogical Forum’ issues is actively deposited in a long-term preservation service in the National Library of Poland and the Public Knowledge Project in Canada.

Peer Review Process

Pedagogical Forum (Forum Pedagogiczne) accepts for publication manuscripts which comply with editorial guidelines. The persons responsible for assessing the texts are the issue editor and the editorial assistant whose responsibility is to manage and document the review proces.

 Each article is submitted for a review to two independent reviewers from outside the author’s scientific entity. In case of publication in a foreign language, at least one of the reviewers is affiliated with a foreign institution that has its office in a different country than that of the author of the publication.
Manuscripts submitted for publication are also subject to additional evaluation by an internal statistical reviewer as part of an open peer review process.

 The author (authors) of the manuscript and the reviewers do not know each other’s identity (the so-called double blind review process).  Otherwise, the reviewer will be requested to declare in writing that there is no conflict of interests between them and the author (authors) such as: direct personal relationship (first or second degree of kinship, legal relationship, marriage), professional relationship or a direct scientific cooperation within the previous two years of the year of writing the review.

The manuscripts submitted for publication in Pedagogical Forum (Forum Pedagogiczne) have to meet the following criteria:

- be written in an appropriate scientific style in compliance with the journal’s profile

- be clearly structured,

- present the current state of research and appropriately refer to previous research activities in this field,

- ensure accuracy of the language and terminology

- quote appropriate literature

- article conclusions are comprehensible.

 The review is issued in a written form and states unambiguously rejection or acceptance for publication. 

The Pedagogical Forum editors check the originality of the submitted articles using the JSA system (Uniform Anti-Plagiarism System). This system is introduced by the Ministry of Education and Science as obligatory in all scientific institutions in Poland.

 The final decision regarding acceptance or rejection of the reviewed manuscript is made by the editorial under the chairmanship of the editor-in-chief.

The documents related to the review proces are kept in the editorial office.

Review form pl 

Review form en

Publication Frequency

The manuscripts for the first issue in the year should be submitted by the 30 of September of the previous year. The manuscripts for the second issue should be submitted by the 31st of March of the same year.

Sponsors

• Ministerstwo Nauki i Szkolnictwa Wyższego

Sources of Support

Since 2016, Pedagogical Forum (Forum Pedagogiczne) is under the patronage of the Committee on Pedagogical Sciences, acting within the Polish Academy of Sciences.

• Komitet Nauk Pedagogicznych PAN

Journal History

Pedagogical Forum (Forum Pedagogiczne) was established in 2011.