International Journal for Lesson and Learning Studies

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The International Journal for Lesson and Learning Studies (IJLLS) is the offical journal of the World Association of Lesson Studies (WALS). WALS is an association of educational researchers and teaching professionals from various countries in the world who are dedicated to educational research that focuses directly on improving the quality of learning in classrooms and other formal learning environments through pedagogical experiments or action research.

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About the journal

The International Journal for Lesson and Learning Studies rests on the conviction that there is a need for a journal that will promote an evidence-based and rigorous pedagogical discourse in the field of education about how to improve the quality of young people’s experiences as learners in educational settings. Such a discourse is inevitably practical while at the same time eclectically drawing on a wide range of disciplinary knowledge. This does not imply that the contents of the journal will be any less intellectually demanding than those that stem from a particular academic sub-discipline such as the psychology or sociology of learning or the philosophy of education. In the course of sustaining a clear focus on ‘Improving the quality of lessons and learning’ through pedagogical experimentation in which action strategies are constructed, tested and further developed, contributions will address such issues as:

What constitutes quality in learning and how can it be evidenced and assessed?
How do we conceptualise the relationship between the achievement and the process aspects of learning?
What are the major constraints on efforts to improve the quality of learning in formal education, and how might they be overcome?
What new possibilities of action to resolve persistent educational problems can now be imagined?

Topicality

The Editors are confident that the journal will have very wide appeal at a time when educational policy, leadership and practice across the world is increasingly focused on the quality of the learning experiences provided to learners in formal education settings.

Editorial scope and objectives

The journal will publish lesson and learning studies that are pedagogically aimed at improving the quality of teaching and learning in formal educational settings. These may take the form of action research, design experiments, formative evaluations or pedagogical research more generally that is designed to foster a democratic, discursive and action oriented inquiry process. The journal will be particularly interested in publishing lesson and learning studies that are collaboratively constructed and dialogically forged with teachers and their students.

The main objectives of the journal are:

To enhance public knowledge about how to improve the quality of learning experiences in formal educational settings.
To become the major medium for globally disseminating the outcomes of practically-oriented research in the fields of lesson and learning studies to education researchers, teacher educators, educational practitioners and leaders, and members of the education policy community.
To promote interdisciplinary and cross-national collaboration between groups of teacher educators, educational researchers, and schoolteachers in conducting action-oriented lesson and learning studies.
To foster a systematic exchange and discussion of ideas about how to improve the quality of lessons and learning experiences in formal educational settings.
To promote a just and equitable international distribution of opportunities for researchers (practitioners as well as academics) in the fields of lesson and learning studies to have their work published.
To encourage teacher educators and educational researchers in higher educational institutions to engage teachers in the process of developing their pedagogical content knowledge, and to co-author accounts of the process and its outcomes with them.
To identify and clarify the most persistent and enduring themes that are relevant to securing significant improvements in the quality of teaching and learning in educational settings, and to encourage contributions that can be linked to such themes.
To publish lesson and learning studies that are jargon free and written in a form of English that is equally accessible to teachers, educational leaders, and members of the policy community as well as academics.

Key Journal Audiences

education researchers
teacher educators
educational practitioners and leaders
members of the education policy community

IJLLS is Indexed and Abstracted in:

British Library
EBSCO EDS
ProQuest ABI inform
Summon
Cabell's Directory of Publishing Opportunities in Educational Curriculum & Methods

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