CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
for the Winter Issue of
PEN: The Peripatetically Published Journal of the Progressive Education Network
It’s been a long minute since we’ve called for journal submissions, and a lot of life has been lived in and out of the classroom. As we break for the holidays to gather, find rest, and reflect, we invite you to consider sharing your ideas, photos, and reminders of what progressive education means and looks like. This could take the form of a short recap of work inside the classroom; a photo with a simple caption illustrating ProgEd at work; or a longer piece you’ve been mulling over for some time that captures your focus and intent as an educator. In the Winter ‘23-’24 issue, we will ground our thinking in any of the PEN Educational Principles:
- Education must amplify students’ voice, agency, conscience, and intellect to create a more equitable, just, and sustainable world.
- Education must encourage the active participation of students in their learning.
- Education must respond to the developmental needs of students, and focus on their social, emotional, intellectual, cognitive, cultural, and physical development.
- Education must honor and nurture students’ natural curiosity and innate desire to learn, fostering internal motivation and the discovery of passion and purpose.
- Education must emerge from the interests, experiences, goals, and needs of diverse constituents, fostering empathy, communication and collaboration across differences.
- Education must foster respectfully collaborative and critical relationships between students, educators, parents/guardians, and the community.
Other submission guidelines & topics for consideration:
“PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE”
Featured articles engaging our Educational Principles: what do the practices look like in your school community; what is the HOW of your progressive practice?
“WHAT PROGRESSIVE EDUCATION MEANS TO ME.”
Short essays from students and/or from classroom-based educators articulating personal commitments and/or experiences (~500 words)
“PRINCIPLES IN ACTION”
High-resolution photos from your work in schools, accompanied by extended captions (~100 words).
“REFRAMING THE PROGRESSIVE PANTHEON”
Archival material and/or critical essays foregrounding the contributions of progressive educators and theorists of color to progressive education
“CONTEMPORARY CONTRIBUTIONS”
Featured pieces that foreground the contributions of an influential, contemporary progressive educator and explore their contemporary practice.
Deadline for submissions for the Winter issue is FRIDAY, JANUARY 19, 2024.
Please provide written submissions as word.doc files. Please upload high-resolution images to Google Drive, Dropbox, or Box, and share your link with us. Please direct all submissions and questions to jrnlsubmissions@progressiveeducationnetwork.org