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About Revive
Revive is the Learning Network's annual magazine, distributed at the network's annual conference. Revive aims to inspire, challenge, and connect educators and parents by providing a sharing and learning space for their multiple voices in redefining education. There are numerous efforts (small and big) by individuals and organizations to critically reflect and revive the spirit of education, pedagogy, classroom interaction, curriculum, and policies. Revive provides a space to express these efforts emerging from dynamic and diverse learning communities. The articles in Revive offer refreshing ideas on education and integrate theoretical and philosophical perspectives with practice. Revive offers a space to reflect on action, learn and spur new actions through these reflections. We invite contributions to Revive that address the spirit of education such as:
- What does education for life and through life experiences look like in the classroom, at home and in the community? How can education address human nature and become ecological centered in addition to being economic centered?
- How can teaching and learning in the classroom lead to increased self-awareness, and a just, equitable and peaceful society? How does one develop the spirit to inquire, understand and act on the problems in our world today?
- How can teachers be supported in developing classrooms and curriculum that support children's natural sense of inquiry?
- How do we address the issues of class, caste, gender and abilities in our classrooms and enrich the experience of children in conventional schools?
- How can we create holistic learning experiences that integrate various disciplines and connect to local contexts?
Submission deadline: Aug 31, 2008
Deadline for receiving editorial feedback and comments: Sep 10, 2008
Deadline for sending your final edited articles: Sep 20, 2008
We will take a final decision on which articles to publish in Revive by Sep 30, 2008.
Submission Formats:
Articles to Revive can be contributed in any of the following formats and topics:
- First person narratives of a particularly meaningful or moving personal experience connected to an educational practice. It can be a reflection of classroom practice that provides new ideas, inspires educators and may contain a description of the ideas, methodology, curriculum, materials, learning environment, student work, interviews, afterthoughts and suggestions for others who may want to try this out in their teaching. You can also send a reflection of your personal growth and journey through a specific educational practice as a teacher, parent, or administrator.
- Essays on social issues and policy decisions influencing education, an assessment of current educational philosophy, methodology, or curriculum or a review of a book relevant to the interest of the network members. Essays must be substantiated by experiences, interactions with people and research.
- Articles, reflections, poetry, short stories, and illustrations by children which are relevant to the spirit of education. Please include the name, age, school/organization (name and address) and contact information of the person submitting this work.
- Copyrighted articles by well-known educators that have become landmarks in education and serve as a learning resource. If you are of aware of such articles, let us know and we follow up on obtaining the permissions to reprint in Revive.
Submission Guidelines
- Submission should be a maximum of 1500 words (equivalent to about 3 pages with Times New Roman, font size 12, single space). While we suggest this length for articles, please consider that a well-written article of shorter length may be more effective in engaging readers.
- Please include an abstract of 50 words at the beginning of your article, and your contact address (postal and email)
- We look for engaging, and concise writing that is descriptive and original. Please avoid jargon and rhetoric. If you are quoting or paraphrasing other articles, websites and books, please reference them appropriately in your article. We suggest using pseudonyms if you are referencing teachers/students in your article to protect their privacy.
- While we understand that there will be variation in writing styles, we will be editing and reviewing the article for overall consistency in terms of length, clarity, content (flow of ideas, analysis etc.) and structure (spelling, grammar, punctuation, and sentence structure).