Guidelines for authors
Subject Areas. The magazine gives priority to the following subjects:
- Theoretical and methodological trends related to the field of education and training and its multidisciplinary connections. Educational and training practices approached as privileged cultural narratives and representations that affect identity, subjectivity and reality. The relations between citizen, ethical and political education. The new views on learning and didactics of the disciplines. The multiplicity of paths and branches of education, pedagogy and teaching, which are in constant movement and transformation. The relationships between education, new sensitivities and the communicative ecosystem that reconstructs educational and organizational logic.
- The conceptual, logical and physical models for knowledge organization and transfer. The development and architecture processes of scientific knowledge and knowledge networks; their integration with the education system, the hybridization of the knowledge organization systems with the logics of institutionalized teaching and learning. The school environments, culture and tasks related to knowledge management.
- Social issues such as exclusion, the exercise of rights, the digital gap, the innovation of methods, in which processes, products, uses and appropriations are involved in regards to Education, Training, Pedagogy and Didactics, increasing social and cultural development in Colombia.
- Key and core technologies for educational and training practices that enable researchers, teachers and students to develop, transfer or appropriate emerging and incipient technologies.
Actualidades Pedagógicas invites national and international authors dedicated to teaching and research in education to send their contributions to the following e-mail: actualidadespedagogicas@lasalle.edu.co
Types of Articles
The magazine will give priority to the following types of articles submitted:
- Articles presenting the results of a research, including an introduction, as well as a section on methodology, results and conclusions.
- Reflection articles based on the results of a research, presented from the author’s analytic, interpretative or critical perspective.
- Review articles presenting results, systematizations and progress made in the field of study and including a careful and exhaustive bibliography, not less than 50 references.
Paper Structure
- Papers must preferably be written in Spanish, although contributions in English and Portuguese are also welcomed.
- Papers should have a maximum length of 6000 and 8000 words, written in double spacing sent in Word® on letter size paper. It should be written in 12-point Times New Roman font type.
- Papers should include a brief abstract in Spanish and English (between 100 and 120 words) and a list of five keywords that represent the main ideas.
- References should follow the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (APA) 7a edition and then listed with the full information in relation to one-to-one. Preferably that the works cited are from the last five years.
- Footnotes are only used for additional comments or comments about a bibliographic reference related to the subject at issue.
- It should appear at the end of the article, according to the APA system.
- A separate sheet should be sent with the information about the origin of the article and the author: full name, nationality, address, e-mail, telephone number, institution, recent publications and areas of interest.
Paper Evaluation
Actualidades Pedagógicas does not guarantee that every article sent will be published. Based on a pre-selection, the Editorial Committee sends the papers to anonymous evaluators.
The Editorial Committee reserves the right to suggest formal modifications to the article as required. Authors will be notified about an eventual decision not to include their article in the magazine. The material will not be returned.
The material must not have been published before or be subject to consideration for simultaneous publication in other national magazines. In the case of articles that have already been published in international magazines, the name and date of the publication in which it was featured should be included, as well as the editor’s address and a letter from the author or editor authorizing the reproduction of the article.