About the Journal

Peer Review Process

The article’s evaluation of the double-blind type will be carried out by 2 (two) reviewers. In the event of conflicting opinions, other opinions will be requested. Articles not approved by reviewers will be archived in Archived Submissions of UFRN’s Electronic Journals Portal. The evaluation of the article by the reviewers shall take into consideration: 1. The consistency of the title (with respect to the knowledge produced); the consistency of the abstract (necessarily presenting the purpose, theoretical framework and/or methodological procedure and results). 2. The internal consistency of the article (in relation to the purpose, to the theoretical framework and/or the methodological procedure and the results). 3. The quality of the educational knowledge produced (in relation to the analytical density, to the pieces of evidence or proofs of the statements presented and to the conclusive-analytical ideas). 4. The quality of the educational knowledge produced (in relation to the structuring and articulation of the parts of the article). 5. The pertinence of the article’s conclusion (with respect to the purpose and to the theoretical framework and/or methodological procedure and the conclusive-analytical ideas). 6. The pertinence of argumentation and textual coherence; the up-to-dateness of the article’s references; the adequacy of the writing to the standard Portuguese language; the academic and scientific relevance (with respect to the standards of a scientific study) and  the originality of the article for the Education field.

 

Frequency

The Journal Education in Question is an open access journal that has been published continuously since 2017, with four annual editions.

 

Free Access Policy

The Journal Education in Question is open access and uses the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License, which provides for the sharing of the article with acknowledgment of the authorship.

 

Publication Ethics and Malpractice

The Journal Education in Question respects ethical conduct and the policy of good academic and scientific practices in the publication of articles and documents, namely:

1) The Code of Conduct for Publishers and Journals of the Cope.

2) The Basic Guidelines for Integrity in the Scientific Activity of the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development – CNPq, 2011.

3) The texts and discussions published by the National Association of Graduate Studies and Research in Education – Anped – on Ethics in Research, both in practical procedures and in their fundamentals and implications.

4) The Resolution of the National Health Council n. 510, of April 7th, 2016 – provides for rules applicable to research in Human and Social Sciences.

5) The Research Evaluation Statement – DORA.

6) The accessibility standards for digital documents of the “Zila Mamede” Central Library’s Accessibility Laboratory.

 

Fees for Article Submission and Publication

The Journal Education in Question does not require the payment of any fees.

 

Indexer Bases

Bibliografia Brasileira da Educação | BBE | Cibec | Inep | Mec

Biblioteca Digital da Unicamp | EDUBASE | Universidade Estadual de Campinas

Citas Latinoamericanas em Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades | CLASE | México

Directory of Open Access Journals | DOAJ

Diretório de Informações da Política Editorial das Revistas Científicas Brasileiras | DIADORIM

Educ@ | Fundação Carlos Chagas

Google Scholar | Índice de Web do Google

Índice de Revistas de Educación Superior e Investigación Educativa | IRESIE | México

Latin American Periodicals Tables of Contents | LAPTOC

Open Academic Journals Index | OAJI.net

Rede de Revistas Científicas da América Latina e Caribe, Espanha e Portugal | REDALYC

Revistas de Livre Acesso | LivRe

Sistema Regional de Información en Línea para Revistas Científicas de América Latina, el Caribe, España y Portugal | LATINDEX

 

Specialized Portals

Portal de Periódicos | Capes

Portal Brasileiro de Publicações Científicas em Acesso Aberto | OASISBR

Portal de Periódicos Eletrônicos da UFRN

Red Iberoamericana de Innovación y Conocimiento Científico | REDIB

 

Journal History

The Journal Education in Question, a journal of the Education Center and the Graduate Program in Education of the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, was created in a plenary meeting of professors from the Department of Education, held on April 18, 1986. On August 28, 1987, the printed version was launched in a solemn session, when the Master in Education, installed in 1978, celebrated its ninth anniversary, with areas of concentration in Pre-School and Educational Technology. With a backdrop of an academic policy of expansion of Graduate Studies in Education (with its master's and doctorate levels) and of the dissemination of a systematized scientific knowledge through the interlocution of mastery of interdisciplinary repertoires, those professors spared no effort to materialize the editorial project of the Journal Education in Question, replacing the Education Bulletin created in 1981, but whose circulation was basically restricted to federal universities in the Northeast Region. In 1987, there were twenty-three (23) Education journals edited by universities, of which ten (10) were from universities in the Southeast Region; 7 (seven) from universities in the South Region; four (4) from universities in the Northeast Region and two (2) from universities in the Midwest Region. Among the major national events, the Journal Education in Question witnessed the installation of the Constituent Assembly (February 1987), the promulgation of the Federal Constitution (October 5, 1988), the movement around “Education in Constituent Assembly”, the first discussions of the Ten-Year Plan of Education for All (1990) and, furthermore, the enactment of the Law of Guidelines and Bases of the National Education (Law No. 9,394, of December 20, 1996). At twenty-seven years old, the Journal Education in Question has gone through several institutional changes. On February 15, 2006, in a plenary meeting of professors from the Department of Education, its electronic version was officially launched, universally, bringing professors and researchers closer together in a growing stream of academic and scientific interactions in a continuum of permanence and hybrid mutations. In the course of thirty-seven years of uninterrupted circulation, it has improved its graphic quality, the editorial management, the indexing in national and international databases, in addition to open access and continuous flow, publishing four annual editions of unpublished original articles and reviews in the field of Education, being classified in Qualis/CAPES as A1. The continuous publication of the four editions of Journal Education in Question is made possible by UFRN’s Electronic Portal, with the updated version of Open Journal Systems (OJS 3.3.0.10).