About the Journal
Focus and Scope
The journal "Investigating the child’s world" aims to promote scientific research and pedagogical innovation in the education of pre-school and early school-age children, to contribute to the development of a fruitful and scientifically grounded interdisciplinary discourse on the education of young children, to become a means of communication between the members of the research and educational community, the different parties involved in the education of young children.
The magazine is published in Greek and each article contains abstract and keywords in English.
The sections of the magazine are three:
A. Scientific articles: original research and theoretical texts on pre-school and early school education and the development of young children
B. Educational programs: presentations of innovative formal or non-formal educational programs for children of pre-school age or first school year age, or for their teachers (basic education or training), in conjunction with the relevant theoretical framework and with evaluation data.
C. Presentations: of books, doctoral dissertations, postgraduate papers, web sites, teaching manuals, educational material, conferences, workshops and cultural events, with particular emphasis on pre-school and first years school education.
Peer Review Process
At “Investigating the child’s world” we use the double-blind review process. This means that all texts are anonymously reviewed by at least two members of the Scientific Committee and the Special Scientific Associates of each issue.
Publication Frequency
Individual items are published upon completion of the peer review and editorial process.
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.
