Proposal of special issues

The journal Cuestiones Pedagógicas is the official scientific publication of the Department of Theory and History of Education and Social Pedagogy of the University of Seville, published by Editorial Universidad de Sevilla, which aims to position itself as one of the main platforms for the national and international dissemination of emerging theoretical and empirical research related to education.

The journal offers the possibility of contributions from Guest Editor who proposes monographic issues of maximum relevance and topicality for researchers and education professionals to the Editorial Board. The proposal of the monographic by the Guest Editors will not imply, in any case, the commitment to publish previously agreed articles. Cuestiones Pedagógicas follows a strict policy of peer review. This also includes the Guest Editors who, in the case of submitting articles, will be subject to the same editorial policy of peer review as all other submitted manuscripts.

Guest Editor

Each proposal for a monographic issue must have at least two, up to a maximum of three, thematic editors of recognised prestige and experience by the scientific community in the proposed field of research.

The Guest Editors will belong to different institutions and of different nationalities in order to ensure greater convening power for the proposed issue and to promote the international vocation of the journal.

The task will be to communicate with the authors, compile the articles for the issue and work with the Pedagogical Issues Editor in the process of evaluating the articles.

For monographs with specific themes, they will prescribe an agreed number of specific reviewers, provided that they are of a high scientific standard and commit to being part of the International Board of Reviewers for the current and future issues. Once the manuscript review process has been completed, the Guest Editors may participate in the editorial decision sessions, together with the Editorial Board, for the selection of the best-evaluated manuscripts that will make up the Thematic Monograph in question. The journal promotes the dissemination of the issue on its website, on social and scientific networks and in the media.

The team constituted as Guest Editors is committed to disseminating the Call for Contributions/Call for Papers among its contact lists, blogs, websites, repositories, general and scientific social networks, professional associations and congresses of the speciality during the opening period. The Thematic Editors will evaluate, in collaboration with other Scientific Reviewers of the journal, all the manuscripts linked to the Monograph that are received for the issue (provided that the manuscripts are not from the Guest Editors' universities or from their own authorship), so that their scientific contribution can be individually assessed. Once the issue is closed, the Guest Editors will write the Presentation of the Monograph.

Process of the proposals

1. The proposal of a monographic issue must be sent by e-mail, addressed to the Editorial Team of the journal (cuestionesp@us.es), explaining briefly the proposal and providing, the names and affiliation of all the Guest Editors.

2. Within a maximum period of 15 days from the receipt of the proposal, you will receive notification indicating whether the proposal is rejected or preliminarily estimated depending on whether the criteria set out above are met.

3. Within 30 days, the Guest Editors will design and send by e-mail (cuestionesp@us.es) a Call for Papers in Spanish with the following information and structure:

• Title
• Guest Publishers. Include a brief CV of each (maximum 10 lines) (including email, membership and ORCID)
• Focus
• Descriptors (maximum 6)
• Questions
• Instructions and submissions (including key dates)

4. Once the proposal has been approved in Spanish, an English version (academic writing) of the Call for Papers must be submitted within 30 days.

5. After its approval, the journal will include the Monograph in its programme and will agree with the Guest Editors on a maximum deadline for submission of articles.

6. Once the Call for Contributions/Call for papers has been published on the web, it will be disseminated as widely as possible by the Guest Editors and the Editorial Board of Cuestiones Pedagógicas, through the multiple channels and social networks they have established, highlighting the role of the Guest Editors. This dissemination guarantees as a result a high visibility of the Topic Publishers to the national and international scientific community.

7. Once the period for receiving articles for the Monograph has ended, the Editor-in-Chief and the Associate Editors begin the phase of estimate/dismissal of the manuscripts received, depending on whether or not they meet the prerequisites. In this phase, all works that do not formally comply with the journal's standards (https://bit.ly/30ncDMt), as well as those that do not respond to the scope and thematic relevance of the publication, are rejected.

At this stage, work can be requested for a second review in case there are minor formal anomalies and their contribution is considered, at this preliminary stage, as valuable.

8. Once this phase has been completed, the Guest Editors (together with other reviewers) evaluate the manuscripts linked to the Monograph (as long as they are not from their universities or from their authors) so that their scientific contribution can be individually assessed and described.

9. Once all the evaluations of the manuscripts submitted to the issue have been carried out, those with the best scores by the reviewers will be chosen for the Monograph.

10. Once the articles for the issue have been chosen, the Editorial Board carries out the design and final layout of the issue.

The activities carried out by the Guest Editors, as well as by the Associate Editors and the Editor-in-Chief, are often recognised, at an international level, as being of outstanding merit by universities and national agencies for the quality and assessment of university teaching staff.

In order to ease the submission of proposals for the monograph, an editable template is provided in which the information both in Spanish and English states.