About Journal

The journal INSTED: Intedrisciplinary Studies in Education & Society offers a place for multi-field thinking about education, both in terms of theory and practice. The principal task of the journal consists in maintaining, strengthening and coordinating the dialogue between academics working in social sciences and humanities, particularly those who deal with the philosophy of upbringing, study educational processes and institutions from the perspectives of different disciplines and present diverse theoretical orientations.

Current issues in education are everyone's concern because humans are not only social beings, but also learning beings. The social reality in which we live appears to us as a complex, changeable and unpredictable reality. Therefore, without foregoing prospective thinking about education, we would like to focus our attention primarily on the present. This opaque present requires interpretation and understanding. This is the task we set the authors and associates of the journal.

History

The journal was established in 1998, under the title Teraźniejszość - Człowiek - Edukacja, on the initiative of Robert Kwaśnica, Ewa Kurantowicz and Mieczysław Malewski, who was the editor-in-chief from 1998 to 2020. The journal was published as Socio-Pedagogical Thought Quarterly. The quarterly published articles by eminent Polish and foreign researchers, both pedagogues, psychologists, sociologists as well as philosophers, political scientists and cultural studies researchers.

Since the beginning of its existence, the journal Teraźniejszość - Człowiek - Edukacja has been – and still is – a place for current, multifaceted debates in education, humanities and social sciences. The texts published in the journal concerned, and still concern, the most important contemporary problems, which are both transformations and dilemmas in the area of broadly understood education in the changing world, as well as (r)evolutions of research concepts. Openness to – characterising these complex transformations – polyphonicity of discourses, their transdisciplinary character, methodological pluralism, diverse understanding of the legacy of tradition and challenges of contemporaneity, all constitute essential features of the journal's profile. This openness is accompanied by research self-criticism, as well as the acknowledgement of the responsibility of science and the researcher, which is noticeable in the publications dealing directly with such topics as the status of qualitative research, research in action, engaged research, issues of subjectivity, self-understanding, relations between theory and practice, community, dialogue, ethics, European intellectual heritage or international cooperation of teachers and academics.

Since 2021, Tomasz Zarębski has been the editor-in-chief. The journal is published as a biannual, in bilingual versions: texts are published in Polish or English. Apart from the Polish title Teraźniejszość – Człowiek – Edukacja, an equivalent English title INSTED: Interdisciplinary Studies in Education & Scociety has been introduced.

Indexing

The journal is on ERIH PLUS list. It is also included in the Polish Ministry of Education and Science database, issued in 2021, with 70 points. It is indexed on the databases: BazHum and CEJSH (The Central European Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities).

Programme 'Development of Scientific Journals'

In 2022-2024 the journal will be published within the framework of the project 'Development of scientific journals' financed by the Ministry of Education and Science under contract no. RCN/SN/0093/2021/1.

Information For Authors

Authors need to register with the journal prior to submitting or, if already registered, can simply log in and begin the five-step process: https://insted-tce.pl/ojs/index.php/tce/user/register?source=.

INSTRUCTIONS:

1. Submission contains at least two separate files: the file entitled "Manuscript" (fully anonymised, without any author's name and information allowing for identification); the file entitled "Title page" (with author's personal data).

2. The manuscript should be saved as a text document in DOC or DOCX format and submitted to the editorial office on the OJS platform:

3. Provide a title page. A title page includes:

- full name(s) of author(s), author titles and institutional affiliations,

- postal and e-mail addresses;

- the corresponding author(s);

- authors’ ORCID numbers;

- title of the paper centred and bold - 14;

- acknowledgements (if applicable)

4. Please, ensure that the entire text is ready for double-blind review procedure (title page makes up a separate file, text is anonymized)

5. Text:

- The Times New Roman font should be used. Type size: 12

- Title of the paper centred and bold - 14;

- Mid-titles centred, unnumbered - 12;

- Basic text, spacing between lines 1.5, margins 2.5 cm;

- Abstract and key-words should precede the main body of the text, type size 10

6. Quotations should be written in inverted commas, longer quotations separated from the text, line spacing 1.0.

7. Tables and figures numbered throughout the article and provided with a title or caption, respectively:

- drawings in electronic form should be supplied in formats importable into MS Word, e.g., tif, jpg, bmp, eps, pcx, wmf;

- drawings prepared in internal MS Word should constitute a whole;

- elements should be grouped (they should not be drawn directly in the text file).

8. References should be placed in the text in parentheses according to APA 7.

https://apastyle.apa.org/instructional-aids/reference-examples.pdf

9. The text should be structured in such a way as to keep the number of footnotes at the bottom of the page to a minimum.

10. Bibliography should be prepared in accordance with the APA 7 guidelines.

https://apastyle.apa.org/instructional-aids/reference-examples.pdf

11. Abstracts of articles in Polish should be provided in Polish and English.

12. The editors require the authors to disclose information about the entities that contributed to the publication (substantive, material, financial contribution). The main responsibility for providing this information lies with the author submitting the article. "Ghostwriting", "guest authorship" are manifestations of scientific dishonesty and will be exposed if detected.