Submissions
Submission Preparation Checklist
All submissions must meet the following requirements.
- The manuscript has been neither published nor submitted in any form to another journal.
- The manuscript is either an OpenOffice, Microsoft Word or RTF file.
- Links to websites have been included where possible.
- Text in the manuscript is single spaced, font size 10 pt, italics are preferred over underlined (except for urls); illustrations, figures and tables are inserted within text where they should appear and not at the end of the document.
- Text complies with the style and citation requirements contained in the template, that can be found in the About section of the journal.
- If the section you are addressing your contribution is peer-evaluated, please make sure to follow all the instructions in the Ensuring blind review section
Research
Research articles that address issues related to the learning or teaching of Physics or other Natural Sciences. These can correspond to work of theoretical development, methodological analysis, or construction of results from empirical data. Work can range from research addressing particular learning or teaching issues as well as the elaboration, implementation and evaluation of teaching proposals.Teaching Proposals
Manuscripts presenting alternative teaching approaches, innovations, curriculum development, etc., in relation to Physics or other experimental sciences. These may include proposals to integrate Physics with other sciences, classroom activities, discussion of particular resources, etc.Teaching Narratives
This section is specifically oriented to share innovative teaching experiences carried out by Science/Physics teachers in their own classrooms or other non-formal environments. Emphasis is placed on the view of the teacher as the constructor of the proposal, and the surveyor of its results.
In-service and pre-service teachers are specially invited to share in this section those experiences that entailed particular teaching challenges and that resulted in a rich teaching experience providing to their knowledge of the vast universe of the teaching profession. We believe that these characteristics of particular teaching challenges and the way they are addressed is what makes them so worthy of being shared with other members of the community.
Although manuscripts may be flexible in structure, we encourage authors to include:
a) context of the situation that originated the experience. What circumstances lead to the particular teaching proposal, what was the problem students were having, what kind of school or other education facility was involved, etc. In other words: what was the problem that needed to be addressed.
b) the proposal and the support for the actions in it. In other words, what was done, why, and what those actions meant to achieve.
c) results: evidences of the transformations in terms of student and teacher participations during the experience.
d) final considerations: why this experience was valuable.
Manuscript format should follow the specifications found in “information for authors”. Manuscripts will be reviewed by researchers in Physics Education and/or teachers with experience in teaching at the level the experience pertains to. The review process will be oriented by the editorial team.
Essays and Special Topics
Original founded papers that elaborate on particular issues, such as Physics topics, integrating science, technology, society and environment, philosophical and epistemological matters, analysing leading scientific programs, etc. Contributions in this section are meant to be purposeful input for the job of Physis Teachers and Physics Education Researchers.
Scientific Meeting Reviews
Reviews of Scientific Meetings on Science Education worldwide.
Teaching Material Reviews
Reviews on curricular developments, critical essays on articles, books and projects dealing with Science Education.
Copyright Notice
Authors who have publications with this journal agree to the following terms:
Authors will retain their rights to copy and redistribute the material, under the terms stipulated in the Creative Commons Attribution, Noncommercial, No Derivative Works Attribution License that allows third parties to share the work under the following conditions:
- Attribution - You must properly acknowledge authorship, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes have been made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in a way that suggests you have the licensor's support or receive it for the use you make.
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Authors may enter into other non-exclusive licensing arrangements for distribution of the published version of the work (e.g., depositing it in an institutional telematic archive or publishing it in a monographic volume) provided that initial publication in this journal is indicated.
Authors are allowed and encouraged to disseminate their work through the Internet (e.g., in institutional telematic archives or on their web page) before and during the submission process, which can lead to interesting exchanges and increase citations of the published work. (See The Open Access Effect).
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Consent and confidentiality: When a study involves the participation of persons as subjects, this will be an informed, free and voluntary participation in the research, maintaining the necessary protection of sensitive affiliation data.
The authors are responsible for the theoretical-conceptual perspectives they adopt, as well as for the conclusions, knowledge statements and value statements they formulate, which are not necessarily shared by the Editorial Team of Revista de Enseñanza de la Física.
