The Professional Educator

Aims & Scope

The Professional Educator is a peer reviewed research journal focusing on education in the Southeastern U.S. The journal is divided into three sections: Instructional Leadership, Critical Studies of Education, and Book Reviews. The Aims and Scope of each section are listed below. Instructional Leadership Section Editor: Amy Serafini , Ed.D., Auburn University, USA The aim of the Instructional Leadership section is to promote and publish scholarship across multiple disciplines and contexts to inform the field of educational leadership. Our definition of education and schooling is expansive, including early childhood, K-12, higher education, adult education, informal learning, and other educational contexts. We invite manuscripts on topics including: Research on leadership preparation pedagogy, programs, and professional development; Innovative approaches and techniques for leadership preparation pedagogy, programs, and professional development; Thorough and critical reviews that stimulate lively, thoughtful, topical, practical, and controversial discussion; Analysis of current policy trends influencing leadership preparation and development; Comparative studies of leadership preparation pedagogy, programs, and professional development. The section publishes qualitative, quantitative, mixed methods, and multi-method research, in addition to theoretical work and systematic reviews of the literature on topics related to our aims. We also invite “Notes from the Field” manuscripts from current practitioners that are responsive to scholarship published in this section. Critical Studies in Education Section Editor: TBD Aims and Scope: This section publishes manuscripts involving research and scholarship centered on understanding cultural, institutional, and structural dynamics that create and perpetuate injustice, inequity, and oppression in education and schooling in the Southeastern U.S. Our definition of education and schooling is expansive, including early childhood, K-12, higher education, adult education, informal learning, and other educational contexts. We invite manuscripts featuring scholarship that interrogates, subverts, and works to transform all systems that oppress, dehumanize, and subjugate, including hegemonic systems of white supremacy, cisheteropatriarchy, ableism, linguicism, imperialism, settler colonialism, and capitalist neoliberalism. We invite manuscripts that work to create liberatory futures and possibilities in schools, education, and society by engaging in analysis using critical frameworks. The section publishes qualitative, quantitative, mixed methods, and multi-method research, in addition to theoretical work and systematic reviews of the literature on topics related to our aims. We also invite “Notes from the Field” manuscripts from current practitioners that are responsive to scholarship Book Reviews Section Editor: Kamia Slaughter, M.Ed., Auburn University, USA Aims and Scope: This section publishes reviews of books on education that are focused on the Southeastern U.S. The journal solicits book reviews of titles received from publishers, and also publishes unsolicited book reviews on relevant topics. We invite reviews of books related to instructional leadership and/or critical studies of education in the Southeastern U.S.

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