About the Journal


Focus and Scope

Mission statement of the journal is tο bring forward research and scientific knowledge by publishing original research work, relevant to the thematic units of the journal.

Namely 

  • History of Education
  • Organization and administration of education
  • Educational Politics
  • Sociology of Education
  • Philosophy of Education
  • Teaching Methodology
  • Intercultural Education

Target audience

The journal is addressed to faculty members, to experience researchers Doctorate holders as well as to young researchers and master students who are interested in taking up scientific themes of the journal.

The research articles under submission will have to be original and unpublished, not to have been presented and not to have been submitted in any other scientific journal 

Peer Review Process

Research articles under submission are assessed by conduct of parallel “double-blind” evaluation, i.e. are anonymously sent (without mentioning the writers’ specifics) by the journal’s Editorial Board to two members of peer review panel with specialization to the scientific thematic areas of the journal. 

In order for the journal to publish them there must be a positive assessment by both members of the peer review panel. In case of disagreement, the final decision is taken by the Scientific Committee of the Journal.

Members of the Peer Review Panel are faculty members of greek or foreign universities, experienced researchers, Phd holders in a corresponding subject of the journal.

Publication Frequency

The journal is being published twice a year (January and July). 

Time schedules

Periods of article submission:
1/9 until 30/10 and 1/3 until 30/4 

Admissibility procedure –reception information:
Until 31/11 and    until 31/5

Journal Publication:
January and July

Open Access Policy

This journal provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge.

ePublisher

The National Documentation Centre (www.ekt.gr) is a national infrastructure. Since 1980, it actively engages in the collection, organization and dissemination of scientific and technological information in Greece and internationally. EKT’s strategic priority is the aggregation, organized online dissemination and preservation of quality-assured scholarly and educational content in a single research infrastructure.

EKT’s vision is “Access to Knowledge”. To this end it implements Open Access policies in research, supports the transfer and dissemination of scientific knowledge, collaborates with research, education and cultural institutions for the aggregation, organization and dissemination of digital content and provides innovative services in scientific information.

EKT provides reliable ePublishing services as part of its scholarly content aggregation and dissemination activities . Its integrated online ePublishing environment is developed with open-source interoperable technology. This affords the incorporation of EKT’s infrastructures into the continuously developing international infrastructure environment.

EKT’s ePublishing services (http://epublishing.ekt.gr/) are directed to public and extended public institution publishers of accredited scholarly journals. They include, most significantly, the organization, documentation and organized dissemination of metadata and content of scholarly journals, the training and consulting services on issues such as intellectual property, the standardization of editorial processes according to internationally accepted standards, the inclusion of content and metadata in international content indexers and harvesters via interoperable systems.

Journal History

The electronic scientific open access journal “Texts in Education” was founded in 2019

(decision of the G.A. doc. Ref number D.U.T.h/DPLE/24266/704, 11/12/2019) by the “History of Pedagogy and Education” research Laboratory, Division of Pedagogy and Psychology of the Democritus University of Thrace, directed by Professor Athanasios Karafyllis, in cooperation with the Postgraduate studies Programme “Educational Leadership, Management and Administration”.