Contemporary challenges in Education Research: contributions of emerging researchers to the field of education

Manuscript deadline: 1 July 2025

The editors of the journal Educação, Sociedade & Culturas (ESC) invite doctoral students and emerging researchers to submit articles focusing on old, but still relevant, and emerging questions and problems in education. Empirical studies are privileged but with robust theoretical and methodological frameworks.

Not being limited to these, the following main thematic lines are considered:

• Voices of children and young people in formal, informal and non-formal education
• Schools and communities networking for quality education
• New places of education
• New actors in the governance of education
• New challenges for higher education with the arrival of new students
• The place of education researchers in academia and society
• Challenges in education to promote wellbeing

The aim of this issue, at the national and international level, is to encourage and support processes of dissemination and scientific writing by young researchers.

Submission instructions

This issue will be published in late 2025 or 2026.
Proposals must have young researchers as their first authors. Young researchers are considered to be PhD students or those who have completed their PhDs from 2020 onwards.

New manuscripts should be submitted electronically through the online portal accessible on the journal website. Articles of up to 8000 words must be submitted by 1 July 2025.
Articles should be written in English, Spanish, French or Portuguese, and they should meet the requirements mentioned in the submission instructions on the ESC website. Articles will undergo a blinded peer review process, and a team of mentors will support authors during the process.

For further information, please contact esc@fpce.up.pt. 

Sofia Marques da Silva, ESC Editor-in-Chief

Sofia C. Pais, Armando Loureiro and Marcelo Parreira do Amaral, ESC Deputy Editors