Publication Opportunity

The APERA-HKERA Conference 2014 in conjunction with Educational Research for Policy and Practice (ERPP) Journal which is published by Springer provides opportunities for conference participants.

For more information and submission instructions about the ERPP journal, please see below and visit their website: http://www.springer.com/education+%26+language/journal/10671

About Educational Research for Policy and Practice (ERPP):

Educational Research for Policy and Practice (ERPP), flagship journal of the APERA, welcomes APERA conference participants who have full unpublished papers to send their work to the journal for double-blind peer review.

ERPP is an international peer-refereed journal (published by Springer).  It aims to advance education research that links and has implications for educational policy and practice globally. But we especially welcome papers addressing issues and research in the Asia-Pacific.

We welcome high quality papers (conceptual, analytical or empirical; both quantitative and qualitative) which make an important and substantial contribution to educational policy and practice.

We also welcome contributions from across the globe to encourage learning and sharing. For papers researching on regions outside the Asia Pacific, we will give priority to the ones that discuss the implications of their findings to the countries in the Asia Pacific.

The coverage includes (non-exhaustive):

• analyses of global forces, regional trends and national educational reforms and the impact on schools and their stakeholders;

• studies of key issues and challenges in teaching and learning and school development in response to educational policies;

• diverse topics, such as quality assurance systems, education governance, curriculum development, pedagogical innovation and comparative studies.

With a broad coverage of education in all sectors and levels of education, ERPP seeks to be a platform where issues, concerning system-wide reforms and policy making on the one hand, and specific problems facing teachers and learners on the other, can be debated or addressed. The complexity of education calls for an understanding of multiple traditions of educational research and innovative ideas to link research, policy and practice.

Manuscripts should be 5000 – 7000 words (including abstract and references). We prefer a clearly written paper in plain English rather than a paper full of technical jargon.