New Editorial Team for Learning and Instruction

As of January 2010 we are pleased to welcome Lucia Mason (University of Padua) as the new Editor in Chief of JLI. Lucia will be supported in her role by Editors Sanna Jarvela (University of Oulu), Karen Murphy (Pennsylvania State University), Alexander Renkl (University of Freiburg) and Jean-Francois Rouet (University of Poitiers). We welcome them to the journal and wish them well in their roles.

For more information on the journal and how to submit an article online please visit the journal website:   www.elsevier.com/locate/learninstruc.

New Editorial Team for Educational Research Review

We are pleased to announce that Päivi Tynjälä (University of Jyvaskyla) will take on the role of Editor in Chief for EDUREV from the start of 2010. Supporting Päivi as Editors are David Gijbels (University of Antwerp), Ming Fai Pang (University of Hong Kong), Keith Sawyer (Washington University in St. Louis) and Helen Watt (Monash University). We welcome them to the journal and wish them well in their roles.

For more information on the journal and how to submit an article online please visit the journal website:   www.elsevier.com/locate/edurev.

New Editorial Team for TATE

We are very pleased to announce that as of the 1st October 2009 Mary Lynn Hamilton (University of Kansas) and Jean Clandinin (University of Alberta) with take over as Co-Editors of Teaching and Teacher Education .  Also joining the team at this time as North American Associate Editor is Carol Rodgers (SUNY, Albany).  Jennifer Gore (University of Newcastle) and Mieke Lunenberg (Vrije University, Amsterdam) will remain in their current Australasian and European Associate Editor roles respectively.

We also take this opportunity to thank the outgoing team from Cardiff University for all their hard work and achievements editing the journal for the past 6 years.

Learning and Individual Differences expands!

Learning and Individual Differences is expanding from 4 to 6 issues per annum in 2010. The journal has gone from strength to strength, seeing an increase to its Impact Factor for 2008 and it received more than 85,000 full text article downloads last year.

For more information and to submit an article to the journal please visit:   www.elsevier.com/locate/lindif.

Call for Special Issue Proposals

The International Journal of Educational Research invites proposals for special issues, especially on the following themes:

• mathematics and science education
• school improvement research professional development of teachers
• professional development of teachers
• theory and practice in teaching and learning

  More information about this call.

  The Internet and Higher Education is planning four special issues and inviting papers on: 

  The Impact of Academic Globalization on E-Learning

  The Internet and Teacher Education: An Asia-Pacific Experience

  Web 2.0 Research

  Web Mining and Higher Education

Special Issue on ‘Applying Thinking Skills in Educational Settings and Beyond’

Published in Thinking Skills and Creativity   Volume 4, Issue 3 and Guest Edited by Robert Burden this issue focuses on the development of thinking skills, strategies and resources and their application within educational contexts.

New Teaching and Teacher Education Special Issue

This Special Issue is guest edited by Sara Delamont of Cardiff University and is a collection of papers works in the theme of ‘Anthropological Perspectives on Learning and Teaching: Legitimate Peripheral Participation Revisited’.

*Journal category A: high-ranking international publications with a very strong reputation among researchers of the field in different countries, regularly cited all over the world

*Journal category B: standard international publications with a good reputation among researchers of the field in different countries

  Enhancement of thinking skills: Effects of two intervention methods
Thinking Skills and Creativity, Volume 4, Issue 1, April 2009
María Luisa Sanz de Acedo Lizarraga, María Teresa Sanz de Acedo Baquedano, Tomás Goicoa Mangado and María Cardelle-Elawar

  Students’ whole number multiplicative concepts: A critical constructive resource for fraction composition schemes
Journal of Mathematical Behavior, Volume 28, Issue 1, March 2009
Amy J. Hackenberg, Erik S. Tillema

  Do teacher characteristics matter? New results on the effects of teacher preparation on student achievement
Economics of Education Review, Volume 28, Issue 1, February 2009, Pages 49-57
Kukla-Acevedo, S.

  Criteria of effectiveness in multiple cross-sectoral interorganizational relationships
Evaluation and Program Planning, Volume 32, Issue 1, February 2009, Pages 1-12
Babiak, K.M.

  Objectives, evaluation, and the improvement of education
Studies in Educational Evaluation, Volume 31, Issue 2-3, June 2005, Pages 102-113
Anderson, L.W.

  Investigating teacher stress when using technology
M. Al-Fudail, H. Mellar

  Second International Conference on the Development and Assessment of Intercultural competence – Intercultural Competence through Language Teaching and Learning
29 – 31 January 2010
Tucson, Arizona, USA 

  World Conference on Educational Sciences
4 – 8 February 2010
Istanbul, Turkey

  54th Annual Meeting of the Comparative and International Education Society: ‘Reimagining Education’
1 – 5 March 2010
Chicago, USA

  American Educational Research Association
20 April – 4 May 2010
Colorado, USA

  International Encyclopaedia of Education - Coming in 2010!

Editors-in-Chief: Penelope Peterson, Northwestern University, USA; Eva Baker, University of California, USA and Barry McGaw, Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development, France

A totally new work with new editorial team will include up-to-date coverage on contexts and disciplinary orientations, research methodology and measurement, levels of education and teaching and learning.

ISBN: 978-0-08-044893-0
3rd edition, 14-volume set