Throughout the year, History Education Research Journal launches a number of thematic special series exploring the journals aims and scope.
Details of each special series and its calls for papers can be found in the below links. This page is kept up-to-date with all current special series calls for papers.
Upcoming call for papers
The next call for papers is launching in May 2025. Sign up to the HERJ newsletter for more information and to be notified when the call is live.
Open call for papers
Mixed Methods and Triangulation in History Education Research
This open call for thematic submissions presents a collection of peer-reviewed, high-quality articles focusing on the theoretical and methodological dimensions of mixed methods and triangulation designs in history education research. The series aims to inspire innovative research practices and foster deeper insights into the field.
Read the collection and submit your research here.
Past series calls for papers
Investigating the relationship between generative artificial intelligence and history education
This special series aims to investigate what the widespread use of GenAI means for history education.
Expressions of interest deadline: closed
Democratic resilience and regression in history education since 1945
This special series will provide an overview, as well as a deeper historical understanding, of intersections of historical and democratic consciousness by exploring the background of how understanding of democracy as an aim and as content in history education has developed, circa 1945 to the present.
Expressions of interest deadline: closed
History Education Beyond the Classroom
This special series aims to begin to map, model and reflect upon the wider fora, forms and formats of history education in their social, formal and technological variety. Our goal is to comprehend how these diverse forms of history education contribute to the representation, mediation, and formation of historical identities, vocabularies, experiences and imaginaries.
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