SPECIAL ISSUE 2020:
The Iowa Journal for the Social Studies (2020)
Special Issue: Making standards work or Improving elementary social studies instruction
About the Journal
The Iowa Journal for the Social Studies is a peer-reviewed, electronic journal that provides an outlet for research, best practices, curriculum work, and media reviews in social studies education.
Audience
Each issue of IJSS will include work relevant to social studies researchers and educators in K-12 and higher education.
Proposed Call for Manuscripts—Special Issue: Past, Present, and Future: The State of Social Studies in Iowa
The editors of the Iowa Journal for the Social Studies, a peer-reviewed electronic journal, issue a call to submit manuscripts for a special issue that looks at past volumes of the Iowa Council for the Social Studies publications through the lens of social studies today. Authors are encouraged to select a topic, a strategy, or other aspect of social studies instruction from a previous issue (available at this site) and discuss the extent to which the focus of a previously published article influences, no longer influences, and/or should be revisited by social studies educators today. For example, are ideas published in a 1957 article on economics education or a 1993 article on the influence of the national history standards on social studies instruction in Iowa still relevant? What has changed? What remains the same? In either case, is the answer good for social studies instruction in Iowa today?
Authors are encouraged to draw upon current literature in the field and/or propose lesson plans that reflect current and effective practices in the social studies.
Author Guidelines
Submissions from all social studies disciplines as well as from interdisciplinary perspectives are eligible for publication. Each submission will be refereed using a double-blind peer review process. All submissions should be formatted in Microsoft Word and submitted via email to the editor ([email protected]).
Manuscripts must meet the following requirements to be sent for review:
The email submission must include:
Special Issue: Making standards work or Improving elementary social studies instruction
About the Journal
The Iowa Journal for the Social Studies is a peer-reviewed, electronic journal that provides an outlet for research, best practices, curriculum work, and media reviews in social studies education.
Audience
Each issue of IJSS will include work relevant to social studies researchers and educators in K-12 and higher education.
Proposed Call for Manuscripts—Special Issue: Past, Present, and Future: The State of Social Studies in Iowa
The editors of the Iowa Journal for the Social Studies, a peer-reviewed electronic journal, issue a call to submit manuscripts for a special issue that looks at past volumes of the Iowa Council for the Social Studies publications through the lens of social studies today. Authors are encouraged to select a topic, a strategy, or other aspect of social studies instruction from a previous issue (available at this site) and discuss the extent to which the focus of a previously published article influences, no longer influences, and/or should be revisited by social studies educators today. For example, are ideas published in a 1957 article on economics education or a 1993 article on the influence of the national history standards on social studies instruction in Iowa still relevant? What has changed? What remains the same? In either case, is the answer good for social studies instruction in Iowa today?
Authors are encouraged to draw upon current literature in the field and/or propose lesson plans that reflect current and effective practices in the social studies.
Author Guidelines
Submissions from all social studies disciplines as well as from interdisciplinary perspectives are eligible for publication. Each submission will be refereed using a double-blind peer review process. All submissions should be formatted in Microsoft Word and submitted via email to the editor ([email protected]).
Manuscripts must meet the following requirements to be sent for review:
- The manuscript must be void of author(s) name and institution(s).
- Submitted in Microsoft .doc or .docx format, using Times New Roman, size 12 font, double spaced with graphics placed within the submission. Please do not use Google docs.
- All graphics, tables, charts, and other images must be placed within the submission, not at the end or in a separate document.
- Formatted according to the most recent edition of the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (APA).
- Manuscripts that do not comply with APA format will be returned without review.
- An abstract of 150 words or less and a maximum of five keywords should precede the manuscript and be included in the same file.
- Manuscripts should be 2,000 to 5,000 words in length, excluding the abstract, references, and endnotes. Articles submitted for the “Teacher Feature” and “Resource Review” sections may be 1,000 to 3,000 words.
- If necessary, please use endnotes instead of footnotes.
- All manuscripts must be written in English.
The email submission must include:
- A biography for each author of 50 words or less (this can be included with the separate title page).
- Provide the title page, abstract, complete manuscript, and references, in Microsoft Word format, all in one file.
- A statement in the body of the email that confirms that the manuscript includes original work, meets submission guidelines, has not been published elsewhere, and is not under consideration by another publication.
- Indication in the email message of the section the manuscript is being submitted for: Theory and Research, Conceptual and Curriculum work, Classroom Practice, Teacher Feature, Resource Review. Descriptions for each section are available at the IJSS website.