Materials intended for publication should be submitted exclusively via the Journal Platform.

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Contact person:
Marcin Klimski
Secretary of the Editorial Board
forumpedagogiczne@uksw.edu.pl

The Editorial Board accepts unsolicited materials in the form of articles, reviews, or reports, provided that they have not been previously published.

“Forum Pedagogiczne” publishes works in Polish and English.

A text submitted to the Editorial Board is considered an original work for which the author holds all rights.

A translation of a foreign-language text is treated by the Editorial Board as a translation (a work) for which the translator held all rights necessary to prepare it.

Every submitted article undergoes peer review. Following the review, the Editorial Board may ask the author to introduce changes, additions, or corrections suggested by the reviewers, or may reject the submitted material. The final decision in this matter is made by the Editor-in-Chief.

The Editorial Board does not return submitted texts that have not been published in “Forum Pedagogiczne.”

The Editorial Board reserves the right to introduce corrections and make cuts.

Authors do not receive remuneration for the publication of their work.

The electronic version should be prepared using Microsoft Word for Windows and the template available under the “Publication Requirements” tab. The rules specified in the template should be followed.

Length of the manuscript: The manuscript should not exceed 30,000 characters, including spaces.

Author information: The author should place their full name in the upper-left corner of the first page of the article, together with their affiliation and ORCID iD.

Abstract and keywords: The article should include a brief abstract of up to 200 words and keywords in Polish, as well as the title, abstract, and keywords in English. These elements should be placed at the beginning of the manuscript.

Manuscript preparation requirements

When preparing the manuscript, authors should:

1. Set the main language of the document in Microsoft Word: Review → Language. Any fragments written in another language should be selected and assigned the appropriate language. This facilitates correct text recognition by screen readers and other assistive technologies.
2. Prepare the manuscript using A4 page size, not US Letter.
3. Use Microsoft Word styles, in particular Heading 1, Heading 2, and Heading 3, while maintaining the appropriate heading hierarchy.
4. Use the Normal style for body paragraphs.
5. Do not use additional spaces or tabs to align text.
6. Do not use so-called manual line breaks.
7. Do not add spacing before or after paragraphs manually. Paragraph spacing should be defined in the relevant styles.
8. Create lists using Microsoft Word’s list functions and the appropriate styles, such as Bullet-Paragraph or Number-Paragraph. Lists should not be created manually using symbols, spaces, or tabs.
9. Prepare tables as editable Microsoft Word tables, not as images. Each table should have one header row and a simple structure. A brief description of one to three sentences should be placed between the table caption and the table.
10. Prepare alternative text (alt text) for each figure in a separate Word file, in accordance with the instructions concerning figures. The file should be submitted together with the manuscript.
11. Do not present key information exclusively in graphic form. Elements encoded through colour, shape, or other visual markers in a chart should also be described in the main text or in the alternative text.
12. Insert equations as editable equations using the equation editor, not as images.
13. Use descriptive link text. Expressions such as “click here” and bare URLs should not be used.
14. Provide the full names of persons mentioned in the text when they are first referred to.
15. Prepare footnotes and the reference list in accordance with the APA 7 style. In-text citations and bibliographic entries should be presented and formatted consistently according to this style. The reference list should be placed at the end of the manuscript and should include only publications cited in the text.

Instructions concerning the structure of a research article

The structure of a research article, particularly a report presenting research findings, should correspond to the stages of the research process expressed by the acronym IMRAD: Introduction, Methods, Results, and Discussion.

In the Introduction, the author presents the research problem and reviews the relevant literature, paying particular attention to the state of research concerning the issue under discussion. The author then develops a theoretical framework for interpreting and analysing the problem.

In the Methods section, the author describes the research methodology, including the measurement instruments, study participants, and research procedure.

In the Results section, the author presents the most important findings of the study. The Discussion section interprets these findings and relates them to the results obtained by other researchers.

The article may conclude with a brief summary discussing the practical implications of the findings or indicating possible directions for further research.

An article of a theoretical, review, conceptual, methodological, or polemical nature should have a clear and logical structure suited to the purpose and subject of the paper. It is not necessary to follow the IMRAD structure, as such an article does not focus on presenting the results of the author’s own empirical study.

However, the article may be based on a systematic analysis, interpretation, and synthesis of the literature, a critical discussion of existing concepts, or a proposal for a new approach to the issue under consideration.

It is recommended that the article include the following elements: an introduction; a theoretical framework and literature review; an analytical, conceptual, or problem-oriented section; a discussion; conclusions; a summary.

The titles and arrangement of individual sections may be adapted to the specific nature of the article. In every case, the structure should clearly indicate the purpose of the article, its source base, the method of analysis, its main arguments, and the conclusions drawn from them.

Article template [DOCX]

Copyright Notice

The Pedagogical Forum (Forum Pedagogiczne) journal provides open access to all published texts in line with the principle that research available free of charge increases and accelerates the global development of science and the exchange of knowledge.

All texts published on the journal's website from volume 10 issue 1 of 2020 are made available under Creative Commons sublicenses. No Derivative Works (BY-ND) 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/ 

Any user may share the work - copy and distribute it in any way for any purpose, and distribute derivative works (derivative works based on the original work), but only under a license identical to the one on which the original work was made available.

In the case of articles published before 2020, the authors signed an agreement:
„The Author(s) of the article transfers the copyright to UKSW, especially for the following use: publishing and dissemination of the article both in printed and electronic versions; coping and saving on the external drives, entering into computer memory, entering into the on-line libraries, entering onto the market as a book and in a PDF file format, entering into repositories of scientific information.”

The editorial office encourages authors to submit published articles to open access repositories and scientific portals, making sure the source and DOI ID are provided.

 The journal does not charge the authors any fees for sending and editing texts.

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