Unlocking the World of Publishing: Meet with the Publishers of the OJED

Group Submission Type: Special Session

Proposal

The theme of the CIES 2024 conference is the Power of Conflict. Embedded in this theme is the ability to examine the world in a different way and to then to embrace the unintended, change ideas, change discourse, and change outcomes (Raby & Kamyab, 2023). Also embedded in this theme is action to address inequities, topics and contexts that have been marginalized or invisiblized in traditional discourse. In this context, Power then resides in the written word as people read to learn, read to be inspired, and read to have the strength to initiate change.
Journals are a central way for the academic world to get the word out to their readership. There is currently a range of journals, in multiple languages, that show different sides of comparative and international education. Traditional journals are well-known to the field. Yet, there are newer journals that are expanding the way the readership can challenge beyond their own geographic borders and disciplinary hubs. These journals help to bring new voices and perspectives to their academic discussions and practitioner goals. It is important to note that the discourse found in Comparative and International journals that publish on Study Abroad and International Student topics is one that engages in their own form of Power of Conflict. The articles embedded in the journals represented in this panel are challenging and changing trends of invisibility within the field. There are more authors from around the world who share their unique stories and challenge the way educators have previously looked at scholarship. The widespread recognition of the importance of comparative themes in a variety of educational fields supports the need to provide equal emphasis to both regional as well as thematic categorization of articles. Journals bring to light injustices and generate power through viability and can challenge the status quo in the process.
The field of Study Abroad and International Students (SAIS) that is targeted in the CIES SAIS SIG, had in the past, been invisibilized. The annual Comparative Education Review Annual Bibliography did not include a sub-section on SAIS related articles over the first fifty years of the Comparative Education Review Journal. It was not until 2003 that there was a noted growth of articles on SAIS themes published in that year. (Raby, 2003). Nonetheless, since 2003, there has been constant and consistent growth in the number of publications that has solidified SAIS as its own field. Over the decades, the number and depth of articles has continued to grow. The diversification of SAIS topics and themes now have homes in newer Journals that are challenging the status quo.
This panel includes Editors of five Journals and Book Publishing who will share how their publications are showing the Power of Conflict by changing the way in which Study Abroad and International Students are explored in their publications. In part, this shows how the field is continually redefining important topics and addressing previously ignored geographies, new voices, new perspectives, and new themes that help to define the contemporary field of comparative and international education. The importance of these Journals is that they are not only crossing international borders, but are as well as crossing academic borders which in turn, introduces the journals and their content to new audiences.
This session offers space and opportunity for scholars, practitioners, and advocates to meet with the editors to learn about the tips and tricks on publications. The session includes two parts: short updates on the journals and open discussion from the audience to ask specific questions about research and publishing. There will be a coordinated interaction and exchange among presenters who are working on a common set of themes. In the session, each Editor will follow the same format:
a) share updates from their journal,
b) explain how their journal advances the field,
c) share how the articles in their journal are addressing the conference theme of the Power of Conflict and can be used to foster change.
Following the short informational part of the session will be an open question and answer period. The goal is to enable more voices, more different perspectives, and more challenges to help form the future of the journals. Finally, the open access part of the session will enable the audience to learn about the best practices in publishing unique to the journals present.

Editors from the following selected journals and books shall participate:
a) Journal of Comparative and International Higher Education
b) Journal of International Students
c) Journal of Underrepresented and Minority Progress
d) Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies
e) OJED-STAR Scholars Book Projects

Sub Unit

• Study Abroad and International Students SIG

Organizer

• Roy Y. Chan, Lee University

Chair

• Roy Y. Chan, Lee University

Individual Presentations

• OJED-STAR Scholars Book Projects - Roy Y. Chan, Lee University

• Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies in Education - Amany Saleh, Arkansas State University