Aims and Scope
Seminare. Studies in Youth and Society is a topic-centred interdisciplinary academic journal published by the Francis de Sales Scientific Society and devoted to the education, formation and human development of children, adolescents and young adults. Education and educational sciences constitute its principal disciplinary framework.
The journal welcomes submissions from related fields, including psychology, sociology, family studies, theology, philosophy, law, history, anthropology, and media studies. Research from these fields should demonstrate a direct and substantive connection to the journal’s central research focus. Particular attention is given to educational and developmental processes, as well as to the social, cultural, psychological, ethical, religious, family, and institutional contexts that shape the education, formation, and development of children, adolescents, and young adults.
Seminare encourages interdisciplinary, comparative, and internationally relevant research. Studies focused on a particular country, region, institution, or community should be situated within international scholarship and offer findings, interpretations, or theoretical insights relevant beyond their immediate context.
Manuscripts addressing topics within the contributing disciplines but without a clear connection to the education, formation, or human development of children, adolescents, or young adults fall outside the journal’s scope.
Journal data
The editors of Seminare provide free access to full versions of all published volumes. The journal is indexed in the following databases:
The Publisher’s Identity and Standards for Scholarly Dialogue
Seminare is published by the Francis de Sales Scientific Society (TNFS), whose activities are inspired by personalism, Christian humanism, and the Salesian educational tradition. The journal remains an open, non-confessional scholarly forum and welcomes submissions representing diverse intellectual traditions, worldviews, and religious perspectives. The publication of an article does not imply endorsement of the views expressed therein by either the Editorial Team or the Publisher.
The Editorial Board welcomes the critical examination of different positions. It expects, however, that such criticism will be based on an accurate and fair reconstruction of the position under consideration, appropriately selected scholarly literature, verifiable premises, and argumentation that meets the standards of scholarly discourse.
The journal does not publish texts whose primary purpose is ideological polemic or the disparagement of a particular religion, worldview, community, or group of people. Nor does it publish texts that employ contemptuous, stereotyping, or discriminatory language. These criteria are applied equally to all perspectives and approaches.
History
The Seminare. Studies in Youth and Society journal was founded in 1975 on the initiative of Salesians employed at the Catholic University of Lublin. The frequency and form of the journal’s publication changed over time along with its development. From 1975 to 2009, it was published as an annual, from 2010 to 2013 as a semiannual, and since 2014 as a quarterly. Since 2023, following the change in the scientific and thematic profile of the journal, it has again taken the form of a semiannual. The electronic version of the journal (e-ISSN: 2450-1328) is published alongside the print version and, since 2023, has become the primary version. Currently, Seminare is hosted on Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski University's journal platform, and the entire scientific and editorial process is conducted via the interactive Open Journal Systems (OJS).
Retrospective Enhancement of Metadata for Archival Articles
The Editorial Board of Seminare is progressively enhancing and supplementing the metadata for selected archival articles to align their presentation with contemporary standards of accessibility, completeness, and international visibility. As part of this initiative, Polish abstracts and keywords, as well as English-language extended abstracts and keywords, are prepared or supplemented retrospectively for selected publications. These elements constitute contemporary editorial metadata and do not alter the original content of the published articles.
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