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Voices Inside Schools

The Harvard Educational Review believes that it is critically important--now more than ever--to listen to the voices of people who are working, teaching, and learning inside schools. Our Voices Inside Schools section continues to provide a valuable forum for highlighting voices from inside schools throughout the world. Ultimately, we hope to generate connections and dialogue between practitioners and researchers both inside and outside of schools around critical issues in education today.

With this Call for Papers, we would like to renew our commitment to presenting the voices of teachers, students, and others committed to education within the school community--psychologists, social workers, principals, counselors, and librarians, for example--who interact with students and who have important knowledge and expertise about life inside schools. We value the writing of adults and students who have intimate and first-hand experience with teaching and learning.

We are interested in articles focused on what you've learned through your practice, reflection, and/or research. You might find the seed of a manuscript in what takes place in your classroom, school, or community; struggles with teaching practice; challenges to learning; in-class or in-school research; collaborations among teachers, among your students, or between teachers and students. Ultimately, we hope to generate connections and dialogue between practitioners and researchers both inside and outside of schools around critical issues in education today.

To read a full-text example of a recent Voices Inside Schools piece:
"The Poet, The CEO, and the First-Grade Teacher" by Mary Ellen Dakin
Volume 71:2 (Summer 2001), pp. 269-284
http://gseweb.harvard.edu/hepg/dakin.htm

And the inaugural example of the feature:
"Cacophony to Symphony: Memoirs in Teacher Research" by Karen Hale Hankins
Volume 68:1 (Spring 1998), pp. 80-95
http://gseweb.harvard.edu/hepg/hankins.html

Submissions to the Harvard Educational Review vary in length, ranging from three to thirty-five double-spaced manuscript pages. Please see our General Guidelines for Authors for full submission procedures. The guidelines can also be found in the back of our current issue, or you can call our office (1-800-513-0763 or 617-495-3432) and we will send you a copy. Please send three copies of your manuscript to:

Harvard Educational Review
Attn: VOICES INSIDE SCHOOLS Committee
8 Story Street, 1st Floor
Cambridge, MA 02138

Please note: There is no deadline for submission. This is an ongoing feature of the journal.