Presentation : Genesis …

The journal Education & Didactique was born from a desire expressed within the Association for Comparative Research in Didactics to rethink the relationship between didactics within educational research and to develop the relationship between didactics and other Human and Society Sciences. With this in mind, the journal will focus on publishing contributions from various didactics, some of which are specifically devoted to a comparative approach, and contributions from the sciences of education, philosophy, sociology, psychology, linguistics... centered on facts of education and training.

... And evolution

Education & Didactique is now included in the list of reference journals of the AERES and the 70^th, 16^th and 7^th section. It is also indexed in ERIH, SCOPUS and SCIMAGO, which reinforces its requirements in terms of the scientific quality of the articles published, and in terms of evaluation. With this in mind, the journal is working to make the evaluation process more transparent, more rigorous, faster, more respectful of the work of authors and evaluators, and we hope more formative. From 2021 onwards, the journal initiate an evaluation process within an open science framework.

The journal is distributed via the Revues.org portal (http://www.openedition.org/5845). Only the last year of publication is “embargoed”. Éducation & Didactique will put additional elements online to increase the interest and relevance of published articles: associated texts, videos, empirical material structured in a specific perspective, etc.

Editorial Policy

The editorial policy of Éducation & Didactique is to publish original research articles relating directly or indirectly to teaching and learning issues. With this in mind, the journal gives priority to demanding theoretical articles or articles presenting in-depth empirical analyses. Its scientific project, marked essentially by pluralism of approach and interdisciplinarity, is characterized by the desire to rethink relations within educational research, between didactics and with other human and social sciences, both nationally and internationally.

Since its creation in 2007, the journal has expanded its editorial project. It now hosts various types of writings specified below, their publication aiming to achieve a balance, for example on a volume corresponding to one year:

• Articles from various didactics;

• Articles devoted specifically to a comparative approach;

• Articles from non-didactic subjects: (Educational sciences, sociology, psychology, philosophy, linguistics, anthropology, communication sciences, history...);

• “Special dossiers" including a set of co-ordinated articles that are explicitly included in the journal's policy; However, we emphasize the following point: the publishing of dossiers remains exceptional. The journal only publishes special dossiers on subjects and themes central to the question of comparatism. The journal gives priority to dossiers produced in connection with the events it co-organises.

• A “Replies " section, whose articles, generally short, are written in reaction to an article previously published in the journal (with the possibility of the author of this article responding to the reaction in the same issue, as Procedures in some of the best Anglo-Saxon journals);

• A “Debate" section, devoted to a discussion or controversy, between recognized researchers, on a lively question of education;

• A “Reading notes" section.

Issues under study

• HAL, SHERPA/ROMEO: the journal Éducation & Didactique is working with the PUR to develop an open archive policy for the SHERPA/ROMEO database.

• Creative Commons licenses and authors' contracts: Education & Didactics magazine, within PUR, is considering moving towards CC-type licenses, contractually agreed with the authors.