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.

If you are interested in launching a special series in the journal, download the HERJ Series Proposal and return your completed form to the editorial office at herj [at] ucl.ac.uk.

Current call for papers

Shifting Practices in History Education in Africa: Critical Perspectives and New Directions

This special theme presents an opportunity to take stock of history education practices across African contexts, to identify shifts and resistance in addressing such issues. It also seeks to explore the role of different actors such as policy-makers, textbook authors, teachers and students in creating affordances and constraints in the history education space.

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.

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

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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

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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.

Expressions of interest deadline: closed

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History Education in Historical Perspective

This special series brings together high-quality papers that explore different national contexts of theory and practice, the different intellectual traditions of educational thought that have made an impact across national borders and papers that consider what, in the history of history education, remains a potentially valuable source of new insight.

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