Journal for continuing education research

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Journal for continuing education research

description Peer Review Journal
publishing company Springer VS
First edition 1978
Frequency of publication three times a year
Editor-in-chief Thomas Jung
editor Philipp Gonon , Elke Gruber, Gabriele Molzberger, Ekkehard Nuissl and Josef Schrader
Web link [1]
ISSN (print) 2364-0014
ISSN (online) 2364-0022

The Zeitschrift für Weiterbildungsforschung is a specialist organ for research discourses and results in adult and further education science as well as for related disciplines. It was founded in the 1970s as the first and only journal exclusively related to adult education science. The journal has been published as an open access publication since 2015. Since 2006 the journal has been subjected to a strict double-blind peer review and publishes peer-reviewed, high-quality articles on current research results and developments in adult education science.

history

The magazine was founded in 1978 by Horst Siebert and Johannes Weinberg as a review organ and was entitled Literature and Research Report . The still young science of adult education lacked an organ at the time that would enable a critical examination of research and publications in the field. This was formulated programmatically in the first edition:

“The editors and authors of the report have set themselves the task of making the scientific discussion status transparent for colleagues at universities and in the field of continuing education as well as for students. University members and practitioners should be able to recognize which questions are raised and answered in the discussed publications, which remain open and under which points of view a reading can be worthwhile. In the individual articles, an attempt is made to reflect the state of the scientific discussion as well as to contribute one's own suggestions by means of a critically weighing review style. "(Editorial Issue 1/1978)

In the year 2000, the management of the magazine changed to W. Bertelsmann Verlag in Bielefeld, at the same time the name of the magazine changed to REPORT magazine for further education research . In the first few years there were two issues a year, later the magazine changed to a quarterly publication. To ensure quality, the articles have been subject to a double-blind peer review process since 2006. Since 2015 the journal has been published under a new name as an open access publication at Springer VS on the "golden path" of open access.

Title of the magazine through the ages

  • 1978 to 2002: literature and research report
  • 2003 to 2005: REPORT literature and research report advanced training
  • 2006 to 2015: REPORT trade journal for further education research
  • since 2015: Journal for Further Education Research - Report
  • since 2017: Journal for further education research

Chronology of the institutional connection

  • From 1978 to 1987, the magazine was self-published with editorial offices in Münster and Hanover (distributed by Druck-, Verweissamigungs- und Vertriebs GmbH, Münster).
  • From 1988 to 1989 the journal was part of the Working Group for Empirical Educational Research (AfeB) in Heidelberg.
  • From 1990 to 2000, the Pedagogical Work Center (PAS) of the German Adult Education Association (DVV) in Frankfurt am Main - renamed the German Institute for Adult Education (DIE) in 1995 and relocated to Bonn in 2002 - acted as the institutional publisher.
  • From 2000 to 2014 the magazine was published in cooperation with W. Bertelsmann Verlag. The German Institute for Adult Education - Leibniz Center for Lifelong Learning (DIE) eV maintains the editorial staff of the journal and thus provides a central information infrastructure for exchange in the scientific community.
  • The magazine has been published by Springer VS since 2015 and is accessible free of charge. The editorial work will continue to be carried out by the German Institute for Adult Education - Leibniz Center for Lifelong Learning (DIE) eV.

concept

Each issue is dedicated to a key topic, offers in the "Forum" section the opportunity to put peer-reviewed research results for discussion beyond the main topic, and has an extensive review section. The main topic is always introduced with an introductory contribution, "In Focus", which informs about the current state of research on the topic. It also guarantees a basic introduction for readers who have not read the current topic. In the review section there are the sections "Book under discussion", "Collective review" and individual review. To avoid courtesy discussions, reviewers are hired only by the editors. The magazine is primarily published in German; English-language articles appear irregularly, but are always welcome. All contributions receive an abstract that is published in both English and German.

The peer review process

In 2006, the journal introduced a double-blind peer review that complies with internationally recognized standards. The editors nominate two reviewers for each contribution, who are asked by the editorial team and provided with the anonymized contributions. Based on the expert opinion, the editors decide on a possible revision and publication of the contributions. The ZfW has a steadily growing group of experts made up of scientists from the scientific community.

Editor and editor

The magazine is published by Philipp Gonon (Zurich) , Elke Gruber (Graz), Gabriele Molzberger (Wuppertal), Ekkehard Nuissl (Kaiserslautern) and Josef Schrader (Bonn). The editorial team is headed by Thomas Jung (DIE Bonn).

The previous editors included Johannes Weinberg, Horst Siebert, Hans Tietgens, Hannelore Faulstich-Wieland and Christiane Schiersmann.

An international scientific advisory board supports the work of the editors. The advisory board includes John Dirkx (Michigan State University, USA), Paolo Federighi (University of Florence, Italy), John Field (University of Stirling, UK), Aiga von Hippel (Humboldt University Berlin), Romita Iucu (University of Bucarest , Romania), Katharina Popović (University of Belgrade, Serbia), Ewa Przybylska (Warsaw University of Life Sciences, Poland), Henning Salling Olesen (Roskilde University, Denmark), Sabine Schmidt-Lauff (University of the Federal Armed Forces Hamburg), Jürgen Wittpoth ( University of Bochum), Volker Wedekind (University of Nottingham, UK).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Journal on SpringerLink .