Advice to Authors

(PM v.7 – 9th Feb 2024)

Advice to Authors, below, can also be downloaded as a PDF from here

A significant part of Living Educational Theory Research is the writing of your paper to communicate to an audience what you have learned and the knowledge you have created. As you are writing your paper, you will find it helpful to consult the lexicon of the terms used within Living Educational Theory Research that is available here.

If you are an author submitting a paper for publication in EJOLTs, then you are a professional practitioner who has engaged in educational and values-laden research known as Living Educational Theory Research.

If you are an author submitting a paper for publication in EJOLTs, then you are a professional practitioner who has engaged in educational and values-laden research known as Living Educational Theory Research.

To be accepted for publication, your paper must incorporate the distinctive core principles that mark Living Educational Theory Research as a unique research paradigm and methodology. These core principles are based on notions of the responsibilities of professional practitioners as members of Humanity. These responsibilities require you to hold yourself to account to:

• describe and explain your educational influence in the learning of others, who comprise the social formation that is the context of the practice
• describe and explain your educational influence in the learning of social formations that form the context of the practice
• describe and explain your educational influence in your own learning to improve your educational practice
• coherently represent your living-educational-theory
• overtly identify values that influence the research, as they evolve and emerge in the course of your enquiry
• use the descriptions and explanations of values in action as the explanatory principles that form the basis and structure of your account
• clarify values as they emerge in the research and use them as practical standards of judgement to support claims, also publicly validated, to have improved educational practice
• use values as epistemological standards of judgment, also publicly validated, to evaluate the validity of knowledge-claims
• help readers to develop their understanding of their own educational practice, to improve it and to create a valid account of their living-educational-theory to contribute to the growth of global knowledge.

To be accepted for publication, the scope of your paper must include sections based on the elements outlined in the table below.

A Suggested Structure for Living Educational Theory Research Papers This advice concerns the overall framing of your account; it does not dictate the labels that you may choose to apply to  the separate parts of your account
Throughout the account, values must be identified and used as explanatory principles and as practical and epistemological standards of judgement. The arguments being advanced must be supported by a critical engagement with selected and acknowledged quotes from the literature.
Section	Contents
1. Preliminaries	Title page / abstract  See a typical title page of an EJOLTs paper e.g. at https://ejolts.net/node/392
2. Introduction	Expansion of the abstract, outlining the enquiry in terms of its: Context(s) – socio-cultural, socio-historical and political Purposes Contents
3. Main text	A developmental and structured account that gives full descriptions and explanations that constitute your living-educational-theory. The research question Methodology (research principles) and methods (techniques, tools) The research: data gathered, analysed and validated. The embodied values which have emerged in the course of the practice which form the evaluative standards and explanatory principles in explanations of educational influences in learning
4. Conclusions	The knowledge generated by the research, and its implications
5. References	A list of sources that are directly quoted in the paper
6. Bibliography	A list of sources given in the paper but without quoted extracts