For Contributors - Submission Categories

PIE invites submissions in the following categories:

• Full-length Articles
• Reviews and Review Articles
• Conversations about Research Practice
• Brief Reports and Summaries

Full-length articles:
Contributors are encouraged to submit type written manuscripts of no more than 20-25 double spaced pages (5 000) words including references notes and tables). Submit five copies of the manuscript on A4 white bond paper with 2.5 cm margins all round. All figures / plates / photographs must be camera ready.

The following factors are considered when evaluating the suitability of a manuscript for publication in PIE:

• The manuscript offers new, original insights or interpretation and not merely a restatement of existing ideas and views.
• The manuscript makes a significant contribution to the field and extends the borders of educational debate.
• The manuscript is likely to arouse reader’s interest and stimulate debate.
• The manuscript reflects sound scholarship and research design with appropriate, correctly interpreted references to other authors and works.
• The content of the manuscript is accessible to the broad readership of the education community, and not just specialists in the area addressed.

The second part of the journal which is generally not subject to the peer review process allows for the submission of among others, the following:

Reviews and Review Articles:
PIE invites succinct, critical, evaluative reviews of professional books, texts and other instructional resources including computer-software, video/audio-taped material. Reviews should provide a descriptive and evaluative summary and a brief discussion of the significance of the work in the context of current theory and practice. In addition to the conventional book review format, reviewers are encouraged to use alternative methods of representation, such as critically engaging the author in a dialogue on a published book. TWO copies of the manuscript comprising no more than 1000 words should be submitted.

Conversations about Research Practice:
This will be a regular column in which new and experienced researchers engage in dialogues on critical issues in the research process, for example, power dynamics, ethics, authority and authenticity in field research. In this column we encourage developing writers to interrogate accomplished writers and theorists about their work. This section could also be used to document conversations and dialogues between researchers and the researched.

Brief Reports and Summaries:
PIE invites short reports on any aspect of theory and practice in the academia. We encourage manuscripts that either showcase preliminary findings of research in progress or focus on larger studies. Reports and summaries (of no more than 3000 words) should be presented in a manner that will make the research accessible to our diverse readership.